Social Services
The Department of Social Services provides social work services, financial services, and volunteer opportunities administered according to state and federal regulations. The mission of the department is to offer timely, appropriate, quality services to individuals and families in order to promote self-sufficiency and to protect children and adults.
The focus of social work services is to strengthen a family's or individual's ability to be self-sufficient and independent, to avoid inappropriate institutional placements and to provide protection for those persons unable to protect themselves. Certain
social work services are based solely on need and not on income eligibility.
The Amherst County Department of Social Services offers the following programs: Adoption, Adult Protective Services, Adult Services, Auxiliary Grant Program, Child Protective Services, Day Care Services to Children, Emergency Assistance, Emergency Shelter Operations, Employment Services, Energy Assistance, Family Access to Medical Insurance Security (FAMIS), Food Stamps, Foster Care, General Relief, Home Based Care (Companion Services), Intake Services, Medicaid, Prevention and Support Services for Families, State/Local Hospitalization, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), and Volunteer Services
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