Meigs County Department of Job and Family Services

Service Area: Meigs
Services: Job & Family Services, Adult Protective Services, Kinship Care, Legal, Payee Program, Transportation, Medicaid, Mobility Manager, Non-Emergency Transportation

Description

Meigs JFS generates basic and supportive programming that connects older adults and disabled residents to essential resources.

  • Adult Protective Services: Investigates and evaluates all reports of suspected abuse, neglect and exploitation of adults age 60 and older. All reports are confidential.
  • Kinship Care: Kinship Care is a temporary or permanent arrangement in which a relative or any non-relative adult who has a long-standing relationship or bond with the child and/or family, has taken over the full-time, substitute care of a child whose parents are unable or unwilling to do so.
  • Payee Program: Can offer court appointed payee or guardian.
  • Medicaid Transportation: Assists in arranging transportation to medical appointments for Medicaid recipients.
  • Non-Emergency Transportation: The NET (Non-Emergency Transportation) program provides transportation to and from doctor appointments for Medicaid-eligible seniors and disabled individuals.
  • SNAP (Food Stamps): Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, provides nutrition benefits to supplement the food budget of needy families so they can purchase healthy food and move towards self-sufficiency.

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