Agency: Hawaii Department of Human Services
Director: Susan Meyers Chandler
Public Information Number: (808) 586-4888
Administration of Human Services
Income maintenance, social services, child care, vocational rehabilitation, and medical care programs in Hawaii are administered by the state through the Department of Human Services. These services are provided through field offices throughout the state and are federal-state funded or state funded.
The mandatory and optional state supplements to the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI/S) are administered by the Social Security Administration.
Assistance and Services
Income maintenance programs are Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), refugee assistance, general assistance (GA), Aid to the Aged, Blind, and Disabled (AABD), Food Stamps (FS), Medicaid (MAP) for the medically indigent, the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). The TANF, food stamp employment and training, and child-care programs are also administered by the Department of Human Services.
Services are provided to children, families, and adults (APS, CA/N, CPS, CW, SF, SA). These include counseling, preventive services, protective services, rehabilitation, adoptive services, homemaker services, family preservation and support services (FP/FS), and foster care/adoption assistance (FC/AA).
Other services include vocational rehabilitation (VR) and blind services (BS).
Related state agencies have responsibility for services to the aged under the Older Americans Act (OA); the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant (MCHBG); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); the Preventive Health Services Block Grant (PHSBG); the Community Health Centers (CHC) Program; the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant (ADAMHBG); mental retardation services (MR), unemployment compensation (UC); employment services (ES); the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG); services to veterans (VET); and the correctional program for adults and youths, including parole (CP, PAR, YA, Y-PAR). The courts have responsibility for adult and juvenile probation (PRO,
Y-PRO).
Go to the Hawaii Department of Human Services’ web site.
Find out more about whom to contact in this state in the 1998/99 Public Human Services Directory.