The mission of the PAIRS Project is to collaborate with the Department of Social Services (DSS) in identifying individuals who are eligible to recieve temporary assistance for needy families for alcohol and other drug (AOD) assessment, treatment, intervention, and prevention modalities so as to provide intensive case management services for this population.  To achieve this mission the following goals have been identified:

• To partner with community agencies in creating appropriate linkages and a continuum of "wrap-around" services that foster family self-sufficiency.
• To demonstrate that intensive case management services have a measurable impact on treatment outcomes and relapse prevention.

Transitional Services are goods and services purchased for and provided to Department of Social Services (DSS) clients who are eligible to participate in the PAIRS Project.

Transitional Services are expenditures that are reasonably calculated and necessary to impact barriers to self-sufficiency.

Barriers to self-sufficiency with alcohol and drug identified DSS clients include but are not limited to:

• transportation to and from treatment
• transportation to and from employment
• childcare services
• housing (to include temporary shelter)
• clothing
• household necessities
• children focused services (such as respite care, tutoring, supervised activities)
• job preparation and job readiness services
• individual needs as identified by client

Transitional services are services that are not available (to include emergency services and services that are not readily available) to eligible clients through DSS and/or community based agencies.

Transitional services are provided to meet individual and/or family need(s).

Transitional services can be provided to eligible clients durring assessment, treatment plan developement, treatment after-care, alcohol and drug education, and relapse prevention services.

Transitional services are not provided to non-DSS clients.

Transitional services are not provided to DSS clients who (following assessment) do not have alcohol and other drug abuse issues.

When the client's DSS case is closed transitional services must end.