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Frequently Asked Questions

What Is A Self-Sufficiency Plan?

About the self-sufficiency plan

  • A self-sufficiency plan identifies your goals while you are in shelter. These goals are related to finding housing, saving money, and working.
  • You create the plan along with your housing search worker, shelter worker, and DTA caseworker.
  • The plan is supposed to help you, so the goals listed should be activities that you feel are useful to you and your future.
  • You only should sign the plan after you feel that it is right for you.

What if you don’t agree with everything in your plan?

  • You should work with your housing search worker to develop a plan that reflects your goals.
  • If you feel that your housing search worker, shelter worker, or caseworker are forcing you to sign the plan even though you disagree with parts of it, call your local legal services office.

What will happen if you don’t do what is in the plan?

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