Services for Children and Youth

• Adoption
  

• Child Care Subsidy (Help paying for child care)
• Child Care Facility Info Line (File a complaint or ask for facility info): 1-800-859-0829
• Search for a Child Care Provider

• Foster Care
• Independent Living Services for Foster Children (LINKS)

• Child Support Enforcement
• Child Support Customer Service Hotline (For clients of Child Support Enforcement): 1-800-992-9457
• Online service: e-Child Support (Online system to pay support or get case information)

0-5 Years

• Early Intervention for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Governor Morehead Preschool (For the visually impaired)

5-21 Years

• Child and Family Teams
• Eastern NC School for the Deaf
• Governor Morehead School Outreach Program
• Governor Morehead School for the Blind
• NC School for the Deaf
• Whitaker School (Long-term treatment program for emotionally handicapped adolescents)
• Wright School (Mental health treatment for children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders)

• Work First Cash Assistance

All Ages

• Consumer-Directed Supports (Choices for home-based services)
• Health Check (Medicaid for Children)
• Health Choice for Children (Health insurance for low-income children)
• Safety Net Dental Clinics

0-5 Years

• Baby Love (Medicaid for Pregnant Women)
• Child Service Coordination
• Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (Newborn hearing screening and followup)
• Early Intervention for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• Early Intervention for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
• Eastern NC School for the Deaf
• Governor Morehead School Outreach Program
• Governor Morehead Preschool (For the visually impaired)
• Governor Morehead School for the Blind
• NC School for the Deaf
• Regional Resource Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Services in the Community

• Counseling Services at Departments of Social Services

Psychiatric Hospitals

• Broughton Psychiatric Hospital
• Central Regional Hospital (hospital is due to open in early 2008)
• Cherry Psychiatric Hospital
• Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Hospital
• John Umstead Psychiatric Hospital

Residential Services

• Whitaker School (Long-term treatment program for emotionally handicapped adolescents)
• Wright School (Mental health treatment for children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders)

• Children with Special Diet Needs
• Food and Nutrition Services (Formerly Food Stamps)
• Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

• Consumer-Directed Supports (Choices for home-based services)

• Abuse Treatment Centers (ADATCs):
  • Julian F. Keith ADATC
  • RJ Blackley ADATC
  • Walter B Jones ADATC
• NC LINKS: Transition from Foster Care to Self-Sufficiency