{"id":2466,"date":"2023-05-25T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2023-05-30T18:25:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T18:25:39","slug":"ensuring-health-for-young-adults-formerly-in-foster-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Ensuring Health for Young Adults Formerly in Foster Care"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Full Medicaid Coverage is Available for Most Young Adults Who Aged Out of Foster Care<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO TO KEEP YOUR MEDICAID ACTIVE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>It\u2019s important to tell the Medicaid caseworker about your status as an aged out foster youth.. Don\u2019t assume the worker has this information available.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep your contact information (phone number, address) up to date with your Medicaid caseworker at the Medicaid office.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Medicaid sends information by mail informing you of program changes or things you need to do.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You must connect with the Medicaid office yearly to keep your Medicaid.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WHO COULD YOU CALL FOR HELP?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Your Foster Care, LINKS, or 18 to 21 Social Worker at Department of Social Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Child Welfare Department at DSS if your SW is no longer working there<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Case Worker in the Medicaid office at your local\/county DSS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>NC Medicaid Contact Center @ 888-245-0179<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncpeds.org\/page\/FHNC\/Fostering-Health-North-Carolina.htm\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ncpeds.org\/page\/FHNC\/Fostering-Health-North-Carolina.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fostering Health NC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full Medicaid Coverage is Available for Most Young Adults Who Aged Out of Foster Care WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO TO KEEP YOUR MEDICAID [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"series":[1693],"class_list":["post-2466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-additional-content","category-uncategorized","series-may-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2466"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fosteringperspectives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=2466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}