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Area Agency on Aging - Provides services to the elderly such as homemaker services, case management, information and referral, medicaid waiver, congregate meals, home delivered meals, transportation, respite, senior center, daycare, outreach, ombudsman, legal services, emergency response system, senior employment, telephone reassurance, district senior Olympics, twilight ball, senior discount, senior care, and planning and technical assistance.
Medicaid Waiver/Long Term Care Alternatives - Providing home and community based services to the disabled and elderly. Cases are managed by teams which consist of a licensed social worker and a registered nurse who visits the clients in the home on a regular basis to evaluate the clients needs and ensure that all needed services are being provided.
Enterprise Community - In December 1994, portions of Panola, Quitman and Tallahatchie counties were designated as a federal enterprise community. NDPDD served as the lead entity for the enterprise community during the application process and will continue to support the EC. The enterprise community will utilize $2.95 million in federal funds and local match waivers to implement economic development and social services actions over the ten year designation.
Community Development Block Grant - Over the last ten years NDPDD has prepared and administered community development block grant applications that total in excess of $60 million in state and federal funds combined with approximately $200 million from private and other public funding sources to expand the infrastructure of existing industrial facilites and rehabilitate low to moderate income housing.
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