HHS Seeks Input On N.C. Social Services Block Grant Plan Print
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Friday, 23 May 2014 11:34

RALEIGH, (SGRToday.com) - The state agency that oversees federal services block grant funds is seeking input on how they should be administered. The information will be used as Health and Human Services puts together the annual funding plan.

 
Comments will be accepted through May 28.
 
The plan is available for review at www.ncdhhs.gov/dss/pubnotice/ssbg.htm and a hard copy is available from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Division of Social Services Central Office, Dorothea Dix Campus in the Hargrove Building on Boylan Avenue in Raleigh.
 
Federal block grant funds help pay for some of the programs and services that states provide.  States are given broad latitude under block grant funding to design and operate their own programs.  However, the federal government places certain restrictions on what types of expenditures can be made from each block grant fund.
 
The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is the major source of federal funding for a wide variety of services such as adoption services, counseling services, adult day care and foster care services, protective services for adults, housing, and residential treatment services.  
 
Other uses of these funds may include child care for child welfare cases, community-based services for elderly and disabled adults (such as in-home aide services and preparation of meals), mental health services, transportation, and other human services programs.  Use of the block grant funds for allowable services in North Carolina may vary each year according to the Plan approved by the General Assembly.
Last Updated on Friday, 23 May 2014 11:35