- Food stamps:

• federal program designed to supplement the food budget for eligible families

- Foster care:

• provides substitute homes for children whose families cannot care for them

- Adoptions:

• arranged for children in permanent state custody

- Child protective services (CPS):

• investigates reports of abuse & neglect of children

- Child & parent services (CAPS):

• subsidized child care

- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF):

• monthly cash assistance program for families with children under age 18

- Employment services:

• offers assistance to remove barriers to employment for TANF recipients such as lack of child care or job training

- Medicaid:

provides health care for people who are pregnant, aged, blind, disabled, or indigent