Adult
Services
Adult Services Intake provides services to adults who are in an emergency situation due to a financial or health crisis. The Intake social worker assesses the client’s needs and assists them by informing them of available community resources and services both within and outside the Department that may be able to assist them.
Adult Protective Services are services to protect disabled adults from abuse, neglect or exploitation. Activities include receiving and evaluating reports when there are allegations of harm to a disabled adult from abuse, neglect or exploitation, and that person has no one willing, responsible or able to obtain or perform essential services for him/her. During evaluation of a report, the social worker will assess the individual’s circumstances and need for protective services. The worker will work with the individual and family or caregiver to identify, remedy and prevent problems which result in abuse, neglect or exploitation, mobilizing essential services on behalf of the individual.
Adult Placement Services provides placement assistance to disabled and elderly adults who are no longer able to stay in their own homes and require placement into adult care homes, intermediate or skilled care facilities.
Guardianship Services include assessing an adult’s ability to make important decisions concerning his or her personal welfare and/or financial resources; exploring alternatives to guardianship; providing information to assist the family or others in making decisions. Services may also involve initiating and participating in court proceedings; acting as a resource to the family when needed; participating in multi-disciplinary evaluations as ordered by the court; and carrying out guardianship responsibilities when the director is appointed as guardian. These responsibilities may include making decisions about where the individual will live, authorizing medical treatment, managing the adult’s finances, and arranging for any necessary services.
Community Alternative Program
(CAP-DA)
Community Alternatives Program for Disabled Adults (CAP-DA) offers Medicaid eligible disabled adults, who qualify as needing nursing home care, an opportunity to receive supportive services in their own homes as long as the cost of in-home care does not exceed the Medicaid reimbursement rate for nursing home care.
Adult
Care Home Licensure
Adult Care Home Licensure involves the activities necessary to license, supervise, and monitor group care homes and homes for elderly and disabled adults.
Adult Day Health Services provides assistance with the cost of day health care activities in a supervised setting for disabled and elderly adults.
In-home Aide Services provides services to assist elderly and disabled individuals so that they may remain in their own homes for as long as possible to preclude more restrictive and costly care in a adult care facility.
Commission for the Blind provides services to prevent blindness and to assist visually impaired and legally blind individuals to be more independent. For further information, call Ed Dennis at the Stanly County DSS office on Monday or Wednesday at 986-2070.
