Definitions:

• Child and Dependent Care: Home or center-based affordable, accessible, quality early education and care for youngest children and older children with special needs requiring care.
  
  
• Food and Nutrition: Access to high-quality, affordable food (or benefits providing this) and access to free education about nutrition for women and children.
  
  
• Health and Safety and Recovery: Access to equitably delivered healthcare including affordable medication and mental health services. Safety and survival during and after trauma including domestic and/or intimate partner abuse, child abuse. Recovery from addictive behaviors like substance use disorder or gambling.
  
  
• Housing: Access to safe, affordable housing and services that will help preserve housing. Access to safe, affordable systems care for young women.
  
  
• Identification: Having legal documentation that covers such things as identity, legal status, eligibility for work, and public assistance.
  
  
• Internet: Access to reliable, high-speed internet with an adequate number of family devices and fluency to navigate digitally.
  
  
• Job Preparation: Guidance, training, education, and connections to jobs, internships, and apprenticeships.
  
  
• Money and Assets: Having and getting assets and knowing how to manage money and assets including navigating protections such as insurance, unemployment benefits.
  
  
• Paid Work: Earning a living wage or increase in wages that will not create a significant drop in public benefits (Cliff Effect). Opportunity for a flexible schedule to meet other demands and access to career advancement.
  
  
• Supportive Network: Access to and confidence in an informal community (e.g., individuals, family, groups, or institutions) for all manner of help including borrowing funds, transportation, childminding, connection, support, job networks, mentorship, or sponsorship.
  
  
• Transportation: Access to safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable transportation.
  
  
• Unpaid Caregiving: Unpaid labor and care provided in the home for family members and for the extended family outside of the home who rely on a woman/young woman for care and labor including errands, medical appointments, and minding.