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' I ' II mV I Kl y* **hI m /R BKi ^4?*' . , -? |A , :, jfl In North Carolina Year of Progress For Public Welfare During 1903 there has been in creased emphasis on the importan ce of providing services to peo ple with a view to helping them help themselves, stated State Commis sioner of Public Welfare Ellen Winston, in reviewing the work ai the public welfare program for many years," she added, "however, the 1982 amendments to the Social Security Act have provided new ways of implementing this emphas is." Prior to the current amendments. Federal participation in the coat of administering special services to public assistance recipients has seen on a dollar for dollar basis, Now, the Federal share has been increased from SO per cent to 75 per cent for special service cases, rhe additional money which this plan will bring to North Carolina sin be used to provide the addi ional staff necessary to place greater emphasis on services to leople. The increase will be based m a classification of all public as i istance cases in order to select hose cases where the specified ser vices are being given. "The aim," Dr. Winston pointed wt, "is to reduce or prevent de >endency by helping recipients to ittain self-care or self-support and a strengthen famliy living. Another new provision, already n effect in North Carolina, makes t possible to include both parents, there the father is incapacitated, n the welfare payment, whereas in he past only one parent could be ncluded. umer amendments simplify the idministration of the hospitaliza ion program for the medically in iigent which was established on the >as!s of legislation enacted by the 961 Genera] Assembly to provide lospttalization for persons who neet the eligibility requirements inder one of the public assistance trograms, but who are rot eligi >le for monthly assistance pay nents. One of these amendements iow maVe* It possible to provide lospitaKziation for the parents as veil as for the children in needy amities, even though the family nay not be entitled to a monthly issistance payment. Another amendment which has ilrepdy b-en put into effect provid >s for more time to determine cli pbility cf medically indigent per ons under the pro- ram establish ?d by the 1961 General Assembly rhis mears more careful review of iuch cases. Payments to hospitals out of Fed -al r-1 comity funds for he hospitalization of assistance re 'ipients increased Pom $2,715,752 or the fiscal year 1960-31 to $4,373, 34 for the fiscal year 1951-61. Th's ncrcase is largely dve to the fact hat the 1931 General Assembly in Teased the appropriation to make t possible to pay $1$ a day instead if $10 a day. Under the extended rcT'ra for pc-snra "'ho are medi ally indigent but who are not eli gible for monthly assistance pay nents. a total of $1,492,777 was paid 0 hosoitals during, 1961-62. In order to increase payments to >AA and APTO recipients one of be 1962 amendments provided for 1 few matching formula, effective, Ictcfjer 1. 1962. This made it pos ible to increase payments on the y , i average by $1.80 for recipients on der these two programs. The in crease is provided oat of Federal funds without any acMUionpt State or county money.' Services to the Aged During 1962 increased emphasis has been placed on of services needed by dhttrrter sons in their own homes. Thevalue of individualized services to per sons in their own homes ft being clearty demonstrated in a special unit of services to older persons in the Forsyth County Department j of Public Welfare. This project is | made possible by a grant from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Founda tion and is now in its secoad year. For the small percentage of old er persons who must live in group care facilities, the rapid develop ment of family care homes for five or fewer residents now provides more selectivity in one's own com munity. In each county department of public welfare at least one case- i worker is assigned to provide ser vices to residents in domiciliary facilities and to help operators of these facilities licensed by the State Board of Pubic Welfare. These fac ilities include the nonprofit homes for the aged, the proprietary homes for the aged, and the family care homes. Surplus Commodity Program Thirty-nine counties in North Car olina participated in the Surplus Commodity Food Distribution pro gram during the year. In Novem ber, Nash County began participa tion in the Pilot Food Stamp Pro gram to make it possible for low '"come families to buy more nutri tious foods for well balanced diets ?ua to increase the economy of the county through increased food pur chasing power. The county depart ments of public welfare certify eli gible families to receive the do nated foods or to purchase food coupons on the basis of income, re sources, and the number of per sons in the household. Onlv those persons with rooking facilities hi the home are eligible to participate in the commodity distribution or food stamp programs. Surplus com- i modity foods distributed during the ( year were corn meal, flour, rice, beans, lard.. dried eggs, ry milk, r"""iit butter, canred pork. rolled wheat, cheese and butter. The vat u. oi ins .ooa distributed is esti mated to be between seven and eight dollars per person per month. Hnmemaker Service jg| During the year, li county m partments of public welfare ofEUn ed homemaker service as a mean! of preserving and strenpthenMtt the h"nie. improving standards o^ living, and providing adequate home care to children or eldej# ; people during periods of crMo^fi'. i of acute or chronic illness. Hi hum emus ens'ts where hOtfKgyiakq^jer vice has been used to nlrifl the work of the Casmc^^H gible results have beeffl^H improving housekeeping practices and housing, better nutrition, im proved personal hygiene^iiajjmwed interest In family and wWlwmity affairs, and better acceptance of the individual by family and neigh bors. Children and elderly people have been able to remain in their own homes in a number of cases whereas without the service of th< homemaker, placement in foster homes or institutions would have been the only alternative although far more costly and not as condu cive to contentment and the feel ing of personal security. Home makers also worked with migran' families in counties in which ml grant Jarni laborers were used din ing the harvest season Throug! homemaker service, group care wa provided for children of migran families, mothers were tau ht ho\ to more adequately care for thei 1 children and the homo, and assis tance was given in many areas of need. law were helped by child welfare services in 1882. During the year there were increased services for helping parents with placement of their handicapped children, helping patents understand the behavior of thev emotionally disturbed child ren, and planning fur the care of children when parents were-tempor arily unable to do so because of ill neat or other difficulties. The foster homes and child car ing institutions continued to carr for children who had to be away from their families for temporary periods of time. Emphasis is always on working with parents during these periods, so that parents will agate assume full responsibilities Though more children were placed away from parents this year, more were also returned to them. The skills of an increasingly better train ed staff are showing up to good ad vantage as families are strengthen ed and reunited. And the more than 1500 teeter families continue to give warm, patient, understanding care to these children. Foe those children whose own parents cannot, for whatever rea son "provide a home for them ever adoption offers the second best sit uatioh. In North Carolina more j children were placed tor adoption in 1982 than ever before. The 100 I county departments of public wei j Of county -'elfare staffs persona receiving such gi are in the school this year Licensing of day care facilities to care for the chttd|rwi cf working mothers is an important function of the staff of the chiid welfare divi sion and received special attention this year Minimum standards for the operation of such facilities are At Public Auction At The Courthouse Door le, N. C. 12: o'doc'< noon, Friday, 28 Decem I |A/M f i nf land in Limestone Tow .iship about miles South of Beula I ^^K known as Hazel Brink worth land. Will be sold by tracts or consisting of a dwelling house, a woodlands tract, and I bate? allotment ? 4.78 at res. I Te