Social Services

Purpose:

To provide Case Management services for Medicaid residents in an Adult Care Home or Family Care Home when they become totally dependent on staff for eating assistance, consistent help with toileting, and/or ambulation.

Program Services:

• Assessment of Need
• Monthly and Quarterly contacts to assure needs are met
• Yearly reassessment to verify on-going need for special help

Eligibility Requirements:

What is North Carolina Work First? 

Please call 694-6161 or 694-6163 for Medicaid Transportation Forms

FOR MORE INFORMATION SEE IMPORTANT LINKS LISTED BELOW:

Henderson County Department of Social Services only provides TIPS-MAPP training three times a year. Since we need dedicated families and space is limited we require the following be completed before we will allow you to attend the first night of class. YOU MUST:

Steps to Becoming a Foster Parent:

What is Foster Care?

Families are Needed!!
Thousands of children in North Carolina enter the foster care system each year, and range in age from infants to 18 years old. All foster children have unique backgrounds, experiences, personalities, strengths and needs. Some children in foster care require extensive care for physical or emotional handicaps and disabilities. Sometimes it becomes necessary to remove children from their homes. Maybe the home is not safe, maybe the caregiver could not care for them, or maybe they were abandoned... it does happen.

"Attention Medicaid Beneficiaries: 

Notice of Your Rights Under Hawkins v. Cohen"

Notice from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of NC