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Food Assistance helps families stretch their food budgets to buy healthy food. The program is designed to increase nutritional levels and safeguard the health and well-being of Wayne County residents.

Food Assistance helps families stretch their food budgets to buy healthy food. The program is designed to increase nutritional levels and safeguard the health and well-being of Wayne County residents.

Medicaid (medical assistance) provides health care coverage to families who may not otherwise have access to health care. The program is designed to safeguard the health and well-being of Wayne County residents, particularly children, pregnant women, elderly, individuals with disabilities, and those looking for Long-Term Care and/or In-Home Waiver Care.

Wayne County Job and Family Services determines eligibility for assistance to parents with child care costs while the parent is engaged in work or training efforts.   This assistance allows low-income parents to find and/or keep jobs, and ensure that their children have access to an early care and education experience they need to succeed in school.

Wayne County Job and Family Services Social Services Unit provides help for families needing emergency assistance, community resources, non-emergency medical transportation and child care.

The goal of everything we do at WCDJFS is to help people in need. We work very hard to make sure rules and regulations are followed and that clients in need receive benefits according to federal and state policies. 

OhioMeansJobs Wayne County works to provide and promote a workforce system that offers individuals, employers and the community opportunities to achieve and sustain economic prosperity. Our goal is to help employers find and retain skilled workers and help job seekers find employment.

Adult Protective Services (APS) works to help keep Wayne County residents, who are over the age of 60, safe.

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