Programs
Income Maintenance
Adult Medicaid - This program is designed to help with the medical costs for individuals who are aged, blind or disabled. Services covered include: payment of Medicare premiums, inpatient hospital care, doctors visits and clinical services, outpatient hospital visits, licensed home care services, eyeglasses, prescription medicine, laboratory and x-ray services, nursing and hospice care, medically necessary ambulance transport, dental care. Individuals who are eligible for full Medicaid benefits receive an annual Medicaid card. Medicaid may also be retroactive to cover medical bills from the 3 months prior to the month of application.
Child Care -Subsidized child care enables children of low income families to receive quality care in a safe and stable environment.
Family & Children Medicaid - Ensuring that families and children that are eligible are able to obtain timely medical care. To achieve that, we administer the family medicaid program for families, infants, children, and pregnant women.
Food & Nutrition Services - Food & Nutrition Services helps people with low income or no income buy nutritious food. The benefits come on a plastic card that you use, like a bank card, to buy food. Most grocery stores accept Food and Nutrition Services benefits.
Work First Family Assistance (WFFA) - North Carolina’s Work First program is built upon the premise that “All People Have a Responsibility to Their Families and Communities to Work and to Provide for Their Families.” As such the Beaufort County Program is designed to put receipients to work, reduce welfare dependence and increase personal responsibility. Work First provides financial/medical assistance to families that meet eligibility requirements.
Medical Transportation - Transportation Assistance to medical appointments for persons who receive Medicaid and have no means of transportation.
CIP (Crisis Internvention Program) - is an emergency program that provides financial assistance to low-income residents who are in emergency heating and cooling situations.
Social Work
Adult & Family Services -
Aging & Nutrition Services - The Aging Unit is made up of numerous programs including CAP/DA, CAP/C, In Home Services, Respite, State In Home, Special Assistance In Home, At-Risk and nutrition services. These programs are provided to assist adults and enable them to remain in their homes.
Child Protective Services (CPS) - Child Protective Services is made up of Child Protective Services Team One and Team Two. Each Team consists of 6 workers each whose responsibilities are to assess reports of child abuse, neglect, and dependency.
Foster Care & Adoptions - Foster care placement is temporary substitute care provided to a child who must be separated from his or her own parents or caretakers when the parents or caretakers are unable or unwilling to provide adequate protection and care.
Adoption is the method provided by law to establish the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not so related by birth, with the same mutual rights and obligations that exist between children and their birth parent. The primary purpose of adoption is to help children whose parents are incapable of assuming or continuing parental responsibilities to become part of a new family.
For more information on these programs and how to apply for them or how to file a APS report, CPS report, or how to foster a child please visit our How Do I... page.