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County’s Disabilities and Special Needs department outlines services, long Medicaid waiver waits
Summary
Beaufort County’s Disabilities and Special Needs department presented program overviews, staffing and funding sources and warned of long Medicaid waiver waiting lists affecting hundreds locally.
Beth Cody, representing Beaufort County Disability and Special Needs (DSN), told the committee April 7 that the county department serves children and adults with intellectual and related disabilities and operates as a county department since 1986.
Cody said the department’s mission is to provide services and supports that let people “live productively and inclusively in the community,” and she described programs including early intervention (birth to 5), case management (about 600 individuals countywide),…
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