LSS Employment Services:
Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)
The Minnesota Family Investment Program, or MFIP, is the state’s Federally funded welfare reform program for low-income families with children. MFIP employment counselors help families move to work. The MFIP programs include both cash and food assistance. When most families apply for cash assistance, they must first participate in the Diversionary Work Program, or DWP. This four month program helps parents go immediately to work. If participants are unable to find employment during these four months in DWP, then the participants’ cases are referred to the MFIP employment services.
Eligibility
:
- Participants must be receiving MFIP assistance from Hennepin County.
Program Services:
- Case management
- Pre-employment assistance, job placement, and job retention
- Assistance setting up childcare
- Bus passes and/or gas cards
- Help with interview clothes or working uniforms
- Access to the LSS Training and Education Center for employment assistance
- Short term training
How to get services :
- Referral from Hennepin County’s MFIP Coordination Office.
- Case transferred from other employment service agencies in Hennepin County.
For more information on MFIP, please contact Hassanen Mohamed at 612-879-5344 or email at Hassanen.Mohamed@lssmn.org.
