Agency: Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children
Secretary: Viola P. Miller
Public Information Number: (502) 564-6786
Administration of Human Services
Assistance and service programs in Kentucky are administered by the Cabinet for Families and Children and the Cabinet for Health Services through five unitsMthe Departments for Community-Based Services, Medicaid Services, Public Health, and Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services. Programs are federal-state funded.
The mandatory and optional state supplements to the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI/S) are administered by the Cabinet for Families and Children.
General assistance (GA) is locally funded and is administered at the discretion of each of the 120 counties.
Assistance and Services
The Department for Community-Based Services provides Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Food Stamp (FS) Program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), SSI/S, Child Support Enforcement (CSE), services to families (SF), child welfare services (CA/N, CW), foster care/adoption assistance (FC/AA), family preservation and support services (FP/FS), the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), services to adults (SA), and services to the aged (OA). Also included are protective services (APS, CPS); homemaker services; day care; services to unmarried parents; services to courts in relation to juveniles, including supervision of delinquents (YA, Y-PAR, Y-PRO); and refugee resettlement. In addition, the department operates residential treatment centers for delinquent and emotionally disturbed youths and day treatment centers and group homes for status offenders and delinquent youths.
The Department for Medicaid Services provides aid to families and individuals eligible for Medicaid (MAP) for the categorically needy, including all SSI recipients.
Services provided by the other departments within the cabinets include mental retardation (MR) programs; the Preventive Health Services Block Grant (PHSBG); the Maternal and Child Health Block Grant (MCHBG); the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Block Grant (ADAMHBG); the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA); the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG); and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).
Related state agencies have responsibility for vocational rehabilitation (VR), vocational rehabilitation for the blind (VRB), employment services (ES), veterans services (VET), unemployment compensation (UC), and adult correctional programs (CP, PAR, PRO).
Go to the web site for the Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children.
Go to the web site for the Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services.
Find out more about whom to contact in this state in the 1998/99 Public Human Services Directory.