How to Apply for Social Services
Find information on how to apply for services offered by the Department of Social Services.
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Department of Developmental Services Providers
A collection of resources and information for the Department of Developmental Services (DDS) Providers.
Agency: Department of Developmental Services -
The department provides links to numerous forms to request services and assess needs and skills.
Agency: Department of Developmental Services -
Developmental Services Video Library
The Department of Developmental Services (DDS) Production Studio produces informational videos that educate consumers and their families about DDS services and supports. In addition, training videos are produced for agency staff and DDs private providers.
Agency: Department of Developmental Services -
Developmental Support Services
Support is tailored to meet the needs and desires of consumers and their families through various stages of life, from infancy to retirement age.
Agency: Department of Developmental Services -
Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP)
The Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) is designed to provide citizens with resources promoting diabetes awareness, prevention and information. The DPCP works with public health systems in communities to examine diabetes issues statewide.
Agency: Department of Public Health -
The Department administers programs which promote social, physical and economic well-being while providing people with disabilities with opportunities to achieve their full potential for self-direction. The Department works closely with an advisory council comprised primarily of people with disabilities which makes recommendations to improve the planning, development and administration of programs.
Agency: Department of Social Services -
Citizens can access the latest drinking water news as well as water quality monitoring schedules, source water protection, and statutes, regulations and federal drinking water rules.
Agency: Department of Public Health -
Driver Training Program for Persons with Disabilities
Driver training program for persons with disabilities can help any qualified permanent Connecticut resident who requires special equipment in order to operate a motor vehicle. This is the only state-operated program of this type in the U.S. There is no charge for this training.
Agency: Department of Aging and Disability Services -
The Drug Control Division works to protect the health and safety of Connecticut residents by regulating all persons and firms involved in the distribution of all legal drugs, medical devices and cosmetics in Connecticut. The division oversees the programs of compliance and enforcement, commission of pharmacy, prescription monitoring program and the medical marijuana program.
Agency: Department of Consumer Protection -
The Department of Social Services Durable Medical Equipment program provides equipment to help you move around: canes, crutches, walkers and wheelchairs. DME also includes equipment needed to care for you at home: bed pans, heat lamps or pads, hospital beds, special toilet seats and machines that help make breathing easier. *Service available to Medicaid recipients only
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The WIC Electronic Benefits Transfers (EBT) is an electronic process where the food benefits are automatically added onto a card, similar to a debit card. This card, which will be known as the eWIC card, replaces the current paper vouchers/checks.
Agency: Department of Public Health -
Economic Security - Electronic Benefits Transfer EBT
The goals of the DSS-EBT project are to: provide a more reliable, stable, and convenient benefit delivery system; to provide a more cost effective and efficient benefit issuance system; to eliminate ATP card redemption, SNAP handling, and check cashing in Connecticut banks; to provide authorized SNAP retailers with EBT technology at the point-of-sale and streamlined accounting and settlement procedures for SNAP; to reduce the administrative costs of benefit issuance; and to reduce fraud and SNAP benefit trafficking associated with the paper benefit issuance process.
Agency: Department of Social Services -
Economic Security - Financial Assistance
The financial assistance programs provide income support to individuals and families to meet their basic needs while encouraging their maximum degree of independence.
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The purpose of the Elderly Nutrition Program is to provide meals, reduce hunger and food insecurity, promote socialization and the health and well-being of older adults. The program provides nutritionally balanced meals to eligible residents 60 years of age and over and their spouses. Meals are served through community cafes or delivered to the home-bound older adults.
Agency: State Unit on Aging -
Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services (EMPS)
A mobile intervention service for children and adolescents experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis. The program comprises a team of trained mental health professionals that can respond immediately by phone or face to face when a child is experiencing an emotional or behavioral crisis.
Agency: Department of Children and Families
