Alternative Care is a state-funded cost-sharing program that supports certain home- and community-based services for eligible seniors.

Ambulance Response Times are approved every two years by the County Board.

Baby Tracks is an immunization-tracking program of infants and toddlers.

Body Art Safety is covered under a Hennepin ordinance and requires that body art studios and body piercing studios be monitored by the county's public health department.

Breast-feeding Peer Counselor Program encourages new moms to begin and continue breast-feeding.

Burial and Funeral Fund is used to pay for burials -- including cemetery expenses,caskets and vaults -- for people who are indigent. 

Child Care Assistance helps low-income families pay for child care.

Child Protection: How does it work? explains how the system works.

Child Protection: How Decisions are Made explains the decision making tools used by social workers when assessing potential risk to a child.

Child Protection: Adoption of Special Needs Children - This program finds safe, permanent adoptive families for abused or neglected children who are under State Guardianship following a termination of parental rights.

Child Protection: Foster Care provides temporary homes to children. Hennepin recruits and trains foster parents, licenses and monitors foster care, and monitors the system for the safety of the children.

Child Protection: Youth in Transition is a process that enables young people in foster care to take the lead in planning for their futures. 

Child Support is the contribution that non-custodial parents make to ensure that their children have appropriate care, living expenses and medical support.

Child & Teen Checkup encourages and assists families with children up to age 21 and who are eligible for Medical Assistance or MinnesotaCare to make use of preventive health care services.

Consumer Directed Community Supports is an optional service for people who are enrolled in Medical Assistance and a waiver program that gives enrollees greater flexibility and responsibility in directing their own care.

Diversionary Work Program provides short-term benefits and intensive, front-end employment services for families seeking cash assistance.

Early Childhood Development programs serve children under the age of 5 who have developmental delays and need intervention services.

Elderly Waiver is a federally-funded program for people age 65 and older who are eligible for Medical Assistance (MA) and require the level of medical care provided in an nursing home but choose to reside in their homes or apartments.

Emergency Assistance Program is housing related and aimed at preventing homelessness.

Emergencies: Rental Assistance & Bus Vouchers are authorized for people in crisis.

Emergency Medical Services are regulated and supported by the county's EMS system.

Emergency Shelter is authorized for hundreds of men, women and children each day. The Human Services and Public Health Department contracts with providers who run the shelters.

Food Service Inspections - Food establishments are inspected and licensed for health reasons. 

General Assistance Medical Care is a state program that pays for medical care. (Program is expected to end in 2010.)

Health Care Assistance programs are state-funded programs that pay some or all of enrollees’ medical bills.

Housing: Rapid Exit & Homeless Prevention are two nationally recognized programs that help prevent homelessness or quickly rehouse families. 

Juvenile Supervision Center uses best practices in working with low-level youth offenders and preventing their future interaction with the juvenile justice system.

Minnesota Family Investment Program issues cash and food benefits to needy families. The program has a 60-month – or five year – lifetime limit.

Managed Health Care is a state-run plan that purchases health care for people enrolled in public assistance health care programs.

Medical Assistance is Minnesota’s version of Medicaid, a federal-and-state funded health insurance program for qualifying low-income and needy people.

MinnesotaCare is the state’s health insurance program for people who don’t have access to affordable health care. Most of the program’s enrollees are working.

Office of Multi-Cultural Services works with refugees and immigrants, many of whom struggle with significant language and cultural barriers and are unaware of services to help them resettle.

Red Door Services offers screening, treatment and education for sexually transmitted diseases.

Refugee Health Screening focuses on the individual’s health, screens for infectious diseases and helps link refugees to primary care.

Strong Beginnings is an early childhood development strategy aimed at helping at-risk children in low-income families be better prepared to learn when they enter kindergarten.

Teen Pregnancy - Families that start with a teen birth make up 55 percent of long-term Minnesota Family Investment Program users, so the county works with several partners to educate about and prevent teen pregnancy.

Women, Infants & Children (WIC) is a federal-grant program that targets low-income women and children who are nutritionally at risk.