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North Carolina LINKS is a program of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services.. The agency's website states that the name LINKS was chosen as a word that captures the purposes and intent of the Foster Care Independence Act also known as The John H Chafee Foster Care Independence Program.
On January 4, 2013, [25] North Carolina Governor-elect Pat McCrory swore in Aldona Wos as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. [25] At the time, NCDHHS had around 18,000 employees and a budget of around $18 billion. [26] Wos declined her $128,000 salary and was instead paid a token $1. [27]
In 1964, the U.S. poverty rate (income-based) included 19 percent of Americans. Rising political forces demanded change. Under a new White House Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the concept of the federally-funded, local Community Action Program (CAP)—delivered by a local Community Action Agency (CAA), in a nationwide Community Action Network—would become the primary vehicle for a new ...
To find more utility and emergency assistance programs near you, try using NC 211 — an information and referral service operated by the United Way of North Carolina that connects people with ...
The counties’ child welfare systems are under state supervision with one under full control of the state following an 8-year-old child’s death. Learn more details on these counties’ cases.
Ashland County Community Foundation approved 33 grants totaling about $357,340. Causes to benefit from the money range from building improvements for nonprofit organizations to children’s ...
President Reagan had requested the consolidation of 85 existing anti-poverty grants into seven categorical grants; Congress agreed to consolidate 77 grants into nine. The nine new block grants were budgeted about 25% less than the programs they replaced (Conlan, qtd. in [2]). The CSBG legislation was amended in 1998 by the Coates Human Services ...
The state Department of Public Instruction’s Center for Safer Schools announced Wednesday it has awarded $35 million in school safety grants to 230 school districts and charter schools. The ...