If you are looking for information about car seats and other child passenger safety issues, contact the ND Child Passenger Safety Program at The Child Care Assistance Program helps eligible low-income families pay for child care expenses. For more information call The Child Support Division helps obtain payments from an absent parent who is not paying for the support of a child.
Services include establishing legal parenthood, locating absent parents, getting support orders from the court and collecting child support payments. Children's Special Health Services provides assistance to children with certain special health care needs and promotes family-centered, community-based, coordinated services and systems of health care. Seven community action agencies in North Dakota provide programs and services that empower low-income individuals and families to become self sufficient.
It most often refers to intimate partner violence. For more information: call The Family Planning Program provides services such as breast and cervical cancer screening, sexually transmitted disease screening, pregnancy testing, preconception counseling and contraceptive services. Clients are charged for services according to their household income and family size. Healthy Steps Childrens Health Insurance Program is an insurance program for uninsured children who live in families with low incomes but who are not eligible for Medical Assistance.
Each program helps to provide affordable housing for low-income or disabled families. Each serves a designated multi-county area, providing counseling and mental health services, substance abuse treatment, disability services and other human services. Immunizations help protect your child from serious and sometimes deadly diseases. Make sure your child gets the right immunizations when he or she needs them. Immunizations are available through your health-care provider or your local public health department.
Medical Assistance helps pay for some medical services, depending on the family's income and resources. You must use a doctor, clinic, hospital, public health unit or pharmacy that accepts Medical Assistance payments. Just like insurance, Medical Assistance pays the clinic or hospital directly. Medical Assistance can be used to supplement current insurance. People younger than 21 who qualify for Medical Assistance may be eligible to get a free health and developmental check-up from Health Tracks.
