Social Services

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.

Friday, November 14th, full FNS benefits for the month of November were restored to beneficiaries. Depending on the time of month benefits are usually received, November FNS benefits may have been issued early.

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:

An important health and safety service for our community's children, our staff members are available 24 hours a day year round to receive reports of suspected child abuse and neglect and conduct prompt investigative assessments. When abuse or neglect is determined, our staff works with the family in their home (when safe to do so). Through home based services, staff strive to enable abused and neglected children to remain with their families rather than be placed in foster care.

The North Carolina Services for the Blind provides the assistance of a community Social Worker to help family members, caregivers, civic groups, businesses, and other service providers gain access to information and services on topics related to vision loss, including:

Purpose: APS receives and evaluates reports of abuse, neglect and exploitation of disabled adults (age 18 and older). Services are designed to identify, remedy and prevent problems that result in such cases. APS strives to protect the disabled adult while acknowledging the client's right to self-determination.

Program Services:

• Evaluation of disabled adult situations.
• Support for caregivers of disabled adults.
• Referrals to appropriate agencies to stop abuse, neglect or exploitation.