adoption services Greensboro: 641-3760 - High Point: 845-6701
To help children whose parents are incapable of assuming or continuing parental responsibilities, become part of a new family by establishing the legal relationship of parent and child between persons who are not related by birth, with the same mutual rights and obligations that exist between children and their birth parents. To respond to Court orders, determine appropriate adoptive placements for children, and supervise adoptive placements.
adult Care home licensure Greensboro: 641-3032 - High Point: 641-3032
To monitor a licensed home to assure compliance with the North Carolina Rules for the Licensing of Adult Care Homes, to provide consultation and technical assistance to home administrators for initial licensure requirements, maintenance of licensure standards, and renewal of license. To assist with investigating violations of licensure standards.
adult day Care/health services Greensboro: 641-3717 - High Point: 641-3717
To support adults to remain living independently, reduce social isolation, loneliness, and stimulate interest in leisure activities.
adult foster care (placement) Greensboro: 641-3032 - High Point: 641-3032
To assist aging and disabled individuals, their families, or representatives to find substitute homes or residential health care facilities suitable to their needs when they are unable to remain in their current living situations.
adult protective services Greensboro: 641-3137 - High Point: 641-3137 To ensure that protection is provided to disabled adults who are being abused, neglected or exploited.
adult services Greensboro: 641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 To provide a portal of entry for individuals seeking services who are 18 years of age and older and are disabled and receiving SSI, SSA, or Veterans' benefits.
Care Management program Greensboro: 641-3717 - High Point: 641-3717
To provide professional assistance for older adults with complex care needs to assess needs, arrange and coordinate a package of services to enable the older adult to remain at home.
child day care Greensboro: 641-3715 - High Point: 845-7771
To enable parents or responsible adults to maintain employment, to participate in a job training or educational program that will lead to employment, to provide care to children in need of protection, to enhance the development of children, and to facilitate the reunification of families, aid families in a crisis and prevent placement of children in foster care.
children's foster care Greensboro: 641-6847 West; 641-3739 East - High Point: 845-6701
To ensure that safe temporary care is available and provided to children of Guilford County who are in need of protection, and are in the legal custody of the Department of Social Services.
child protective services Greensboro: 641-3795 - High Point: 845-3795
To protect Guilford County's children, strengthen the ability of families to protect and care for their own children, minimize harm to children and youth, and to ensure permanence in children's lives. To support intact families, when appropriate, to stabilize the family situation and strengthen the family's ability to fulfill parental responsibility for children.
emergency assistance Greensboro: 641-2517; 641-2518 - High Point: 845-7756
To Provide short-term assistance to citizens in crisis when no other funds are available to prevent homelessness, placement of children out of the home, or further risk to health or crisis.
Enhanced Adult Care, Home Personal Care, and Case Management Services Greensboro:641-3032 - High Point: 641-3032
To provide reimbursement to licensed Adult Care Homes for providing enhanced personal care assistance to Special Assistance Medicaid-eligible residents and to provide case management services to authorized residents, their families, and the facilities.
family recruitment for foster and adoptive homes Greensboro:641-7632 - High Point: 641-7632 To recruit, train, and license families who wish to adopt or become foster parents for children in the agency's care. To initiate and maintain a supportive relationship with foster parents.
food and nutrition services Greensboro:641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 ; EBT 1-888-622-7328 To raise the nutritional level among low income households, increasing the purchasing power of these households, and in turn promote and strengthen the agricultural economy.
guardianship services Greensboro:641-3032 - High Point: 641-3032 To assist Persons who have been legally declared by the court to be incompetent and have been designated a ward of the Director of the Department of Social Services.
Guilford Adolescent Prevention Services (GAPS) Greensboro:641-6097 - High Point: 641-6097 The GAPS Program exists to help meet the demands for comprehensive services for Guilford County's undisciplined and delinquent juvenile population whose behaviors have put them at risk for out of home placement. The goal is to maintain the family unit by providing youth and their guardians with intensive wraparound services that will help meet the needs of these youth who are having trouble at home, school, and with the Juvenile Justice System. This is a voluntary program and there is no charge for participation in the GAPS Program.
In-Home Aide Services Greensboro:641-3717 - High Point: 641-3717 To assist adults and their families to attain or maintain self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life.
medicaid Greensboro:641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771; To pay medical expenses for eligible aged, blind, and disabled individuals and families with dependent children.
Program Integrity (Fraud Investigation) Greensboro:641-4636 or 641-4741 - High Point: 845-7783 The Program Integrity Unit reviews program cases to insure proper application of policy and that benefit amounts are correct. If an incorrect payment has occurred, a determination is made if this was due to an intentional or unintentional act of the recipient or due to agency error. In either case, a claim is established and the recipient is contacted to arrange for repayment or in some cases the case is referred for prosecution of criminal action.
Representative Payee Greensboro:641-2514 - High Point: 641-2514 To provide a stable lifestyle through management of funds for persons who are unable to manage their own funds.
services for the blind Greensboro:641-4692 - High Point: 641-4692 To enable visually impaired persons to regain or maintain a level of safety and independence and remain in their current living and work situations.
services intake Greensboro:641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 To provide a portal of entry for individuals seeking services through Guilford County who are 18 and over and not receiving SSI, SSA, or Veterans benefits, and families and children.
Special Assistance In-Home Demonstration Project Greensboro:641-3257 - High Point: 641-3257 To provide assistance to residents of Guilford County 18 years of age or older who need Adult Care Home level of care, but who desire to live in their own home or other private living setting.
Work First Employment Greensboro:641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 To reduce dependence on public assistance through assisting persons to become gainfully employed and self-supporting.
Work First family assistance Greensboro:641-3000 - High Point: 845-7771 To ensure that all parents can provide their children with basic necessities and good health.
