Adult, Family and Children's Services Programs
Adult Services/Adult Protective Services
The Family Assessment and Adult Services team provides a variety
of supportive services designed to empower our customers to achieve
their full potential.
Adult Services
Adult Services covers programs for companion services and nursing
home pre-screenings.
Companion Services is a program available to income eligible elderly
and disabled adults who need help with basic daily living activities
such as light housekeeping, meal preparation, shopping, medication
monitoring, etc.
Nursing home pre-screening assessments are provided for those citizens
that are age sixty-five or older, disabled adults or children that
are in need of community based care (in-home nursing home care)
or require twenty-four hour care in a nursing home facility. A social
worker and a health department nurse complete the pre-screening
assessment. The assessment determines the individual's medical need
for care. Pre-Admission Screenings are provided at no cost.
To schedule a Pre-Admission Screening, you may call the Chesterfield
- Colonial Heights Department of Social Services, (804) 748-1100,
between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays and ask for
Service Intake.
Medicaid is a resource to assist with
nursing home and community based care costs.
Adult Protective Services
Adult Protective Services provides investigative services to individuals
age sixty and older and incapacitated persons age eighteen and older
who are at risk or alleged to be abused, neglected or exploited.
Examples of abuse, neglect and exploitation include but are not
limited to:
- Causing intentional pain or injury
- Withholding or failing to provide medication, food, or water
- A caretaker refuses to or fails to take the adult to a medical
appointment
- An adult is physically restrained as a means of punishment
or for the convenience of the caretaker
- Emotional abuse such as yelling, belittling, or threatening
bodily harm
- The caretaker or person responsible for managing the adult's
finances uses the money for his or her own purposes without the
consent of the adult
- Sexual abuse, which includes any form of sexual contact (intercourse,
exposing body parts, touching, etc.) without consent
If you suspect that an elderly or disabled adult is being abused,
neglected, or exploited, you may call the Chesterfield - Colonial
Heights Department of Social Services, (804) 748-1100, between the
hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. weekdays. After hours, on weekends,
or holidays, call 1-(888)-832-3858.
Reports may be made anonymously. If requested, you will be notified
of the results of the investigation.
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