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Service Information
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A service represents one or more related activities and functions that are provided to address a particular need and to benefit specific types of individuals or groups of people.
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Search Options
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Search Results for Services
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Adoption Services
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Adoption Services help children whose birth parents cannot care for them to become part of a new family. County departments of social services and private child-placing agencies provide these services, including:
- Recruiting, assessing and selecting adoptive homes.
- Casework services for adoptive families to help sustain the placement.
- Help finalizing the legal adoption.
- Post-adoption services.
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Adult Protective Services
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Adults who are elderly or have a disability and who are abused, neglected or exploited or suspected of being abused, neglected or exploited, can get help from Adult Protective Services (APS) from the local county department of social services (DSS). There is no income requirement. County departments of social services receive reports of possible abuse, neglect or exploitation. When a report is received, an evaluation begins. The APS worker looks for signs of mistreatment and identifi...
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Child Protective Services
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Child Protective Services (CPS) helps prevent further harm to children from abuse, exploitation or neglect by a parent or caretaker. CPS workers in county departments of social services (DSS) accomplish this through:
Assessing suspected cases of abuse and neglect.
Assisting the family in diagnosing the problem.
Providing in-home counseling and supportive services to help children stay at home with their families.
Coordinating community and agency services for the family.
Petitioning...
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Child Support Enforcement
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Child Support Enforcement (CSE) services help families collect child support payments to ensure that both parents financially support their children. Services are provided through county departments of social services or other agencies in conjunction with others such as clerks of court, the judiciary, sheriff departments, municipal law enforcement and employers. CSE offers the following services:
- Locating non custodial parents. CSE searches to find where the non cu...
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Child Welfare Collaborative
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The Collaborative strengthens public child welfare services by increasing the number of well trained and highly committed BSW and MSW social workers employed in local departments of social services.
The Collaborative provides educational, and employment support for selected social work students who will commit to work in a North Carolina county department of social services. This is provided through cooperation between the Division of Social Services, the North Carolina Association of Cou...
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Child Welfare Training
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North Carolina’s child welfare training system is delivered to county child welfare staff that addresses the knowledge and skills needed to complete their daily tasks in the areas of child protective services, permanency planning, on-going child welfare services, foster home licensing, and adoption. Training is delivered in-person in classroom settings and virtually through self-paced modules, live and recorded webinars. Each level of training serves as...
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Community Services Block Grant Case Management
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The purpose of the Community Services Block Grant is to reduce poverty, revitalize low-income communities and empower low-income families and individuals to become self-sufficient/economically independent by (1) providing services in communities where poverty is an acute problem; (2) providing activities such as education, employment, income management, basic life skills, family supports, housing, child care, transportation, etc. designed to assist low-income participants, including the elderly...
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Emergency Energy Assistance
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Crisis Intervention Program is part of the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) Block Grant and is an important service for all, but especially for families with elderly, disabled or a young children under 6 years old who are especially at risk for life threatening or health related emergency if their home is too cold in the winter or too hot in the summer. Applicants apply for CIP funds to alleviate a heating or cooling related crisis. Benefits may vary based upon the amoun...
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Family Support Program Services
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Family Support services are designed and developed locally to provide family-focused and community- based interventions targeting families with children at risk of neglect, abuse, or dysfunction in the home or community, and to enhance families’ and children’s ability to attain, increase, or improve educational achievement leading to greater self-sufficiency.
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