The CCE program provides community-based services. They help older people live in the least restrictive, yet cost-effective environment suitable to their needs. Individuals must be age 60 or older. They must be functionally impaired.

Eligible clients may receive services, including:

• Adult day care
• Case management
• Chore
• Companionship
• Consumable medical supplies
• Counseling
• Emergency alert response
• Emergency home repair
• Escort
• Home-delivered meals
• Homemaker

Please call or visit website for more information.

The program offers relevant personal, social, therapeutic, and work skill training to adults with disabilities through community and center-based resources. The activities are designed to advance individual independence and expand participants’ life choices at work, home, school, and in the community.

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Monroe County In-Home Services is a program that services elderly persons and/or disabled adults. The program goal is to offer an alternative to nursing home placement. They also help individuals in their own homes or the homes of family or friends. Call for more information.

Programs:

• Age and Disabled Adult Medicaid Waiver Program
• Alzheimer’s Disease Initiative Program (ADI)
• Community Care for Disabled Adults
• Grievance Procedures
• Home Care for the Elderly Program (HCE)
• Older Americans Act : Title III-B and III-E

Health Start is a free program for all pregnant women and women with babies under the age of 3.

Educational outreach areas include:

• Breastfeeding
• Childbirth
• Parenting
• Smoking cessation
• Staying healthy between pregnancies

Call for more information.

Monroe County Health Department provides the WIC program. WIC is a federally funded nutrition program. For Women (must be pregnant, breastfeeding or less than 6 months postpartum), Infants and Children up to 5 years of age. Contact for more information.

WIC’s Fee Services:

• Breast pump loan program for qualified mothers
• Breastfeeding support
• Florida Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program coupons
• Healthy Foods
• Nutrition education
• Referrals for health care

This program helps family members reunite with each other. They conduct searches using a variety of different methods. Please be advised that their resources are limited and they cannot always conduct a search for all clients. Please see the website for more information.

Click here for useful information: http://salvationarmyusa.org/usn/missing-persons