Family Services
Assistance(Food, Money, Transportation and Housing)
Child Support
Community Outreach and Social Work
Medical Needs
Safety(Facilities,Food and Water)
Assistance (Food, Money, Transportation and Housing)
Coordinated Assessment Coordinated Assessment staff co-located at the Urban Ministry Center, Salvation Army Center of Hope and the Charlotte Men’s Shelter provide assessment and referral for the adult homeless population.
Homeless Resource Center The Homeless Resource Center is staffed by CSS and partners with local ministries to offer meals several times each week in a safe and secure facility with lavatories. The main use is adults but families and children do also use the program each month.
Enforcement of Child Support Obligation There may be times when the parent makes partial payments, skips payments or never makes a payment. Child Support identifies these cases and utilizes several enforcement tools.
A legal responsibility for a child must exist before a father can be pursued for support of the child. If no such responsibility has been determined, paternity must first be established. Under North Carolina law, paternity can be established at any time prior to a child's eighteenth (18th) birthday.
The noncustodial parent must be located by obtaining a residential address or employment address before any actions to establish paternity, establish support, or enforce a child support order can take place.
Caregiver Support Provides family caregivers with information, referrals, training, respite care and assistance with the costs of caring for their loved ones.
Child Development-Community Policing (CD-CP) Coordinated multi-system teams that intervene to support families with children exposed to violence and trauma to prevent the many difficulties that can result from such experiences.
Community Social Work Provides services and programs for at-risk families, seniors and persons with disabilities who fall outside of protective services and public assistance services.
Kinship CareA support program for grandparents and kinship family caregivers.
Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Center The Mecklenburg County Supervised Visitation & Safe Exchange Center (SVSE) was developed to prevent violence from occurring between family members during the exchange or visitation of children.
Veterans Services – Benefits Qualifying veterans may be entitled to certain local, state, and federal Department of Veterans Affairs Benefits.
Medical Needs
Birth and Death CertificatesVital Records serves Mecklenburg County residents needing to obtain a certified or uncertified birth or death certificate that was registered in Mecklenburg County.
Communicable Disease ControlInvestigates reportable foodborne diseases, waterborne diseases, vector-borne diseases, respiratory diseases, sexually transmitted diseases, diseases spread by animals, vaccine-preventable diseases and outbreaks; develops and implements disease control measures; conducts communicable disease surveillance; and provides educational and consultative services to health care providers, child care providers, schools, businesses and the veterinary community.
MedicaidOffers different ways that may help pay for some or all of the cost of health care. Each program helps people and families with certain health needs, and income and resource limits.
Refugee HealthPersons who have been processed through the United States Department of Immigration and Naturalization and granted official status as a Refugee, Parolee or Asylee and are relocating to Mecklenburg County are eligible for certain health exams and screenings.
Routine Immunizations Mecklenburg County Public Health offers a variety of routine immunizations for adults and children.
Travel Immunizations The travMECK Foreign Travel Clinic is equipped to provide a number of key services for travelers. Our travel clinic offers pre-travel advice, travel related prescriptions and vaccinations.
Tuberculosis Control This program provides testing for persons suspected of or diagnosed with Tuberculosis Disease or Infection and for persons who request a TB skin test and also provides directly-observed medication therapy (DOT) to all active tuberculosis cases in Mecklenburg County.
Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) WIC provides healthy foods, basic nutrition services and breastfeeding support to eligible pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women, as well as infants and children up to age 5.