HEALTH AND WELFARE
Making sure residents who need a wide range of social, health and educational services receive them, often working closely with families in financial need and facing crises. The FY 2026 budget includes additional positions to support the increased demand for adult protective services, clinical health services, financial literacy education and public benefits and employment services. Adult and Aging Services To help meet the challenge of a growing number of older and vulnerable adults in Loudoun who need services and support, the Adult and Aging Team within the Department of Family Services will add three new positions in FY 2026. A significant increase in the number of intake calls has led to a higher-than- recommended caseload for adult protective services specialists and an inability to keep up with demand for service. These services are essential to the well- being and safety of older adults and those 18 years of age or older with disabilities. The additional resources will help ensure that all residents, regardless of their circumstances, have access to the services and support they need to age safely and with dignity in their communities.
Clinical Health Services The Health Department has seen an increased demand for two critical client services over the last few years: pre-admission screenings for nursing homes and tuberculosis care programs. Five new positions within the Health Department, including two public health nurses, will enable the department to meet the increased demand for services, comply with state mandates to complete pre-admission nursing home screenings within 30 days, improve supervision and oversight, and reduce the risk of disease transmission in the community, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. In addition to enhancing the department’s ability to offer tuberculosis care, it will expand access to tuberculosis screening for low- income students to comply with entry screenings for Loudoun County Public Schools.
The Loudoun County Health Department is facing an increased demand for clinical health services.
TOTAL BUDGET
Extension Services ..... .............. .......................................... $1.1M Family Services ......... ................. ....................................... $51.5M
Health .......... ..................................... ................................... $19.6M MHSADS ...... ................. ...................................................... $86.3M
INTERVIEW | Ryan M. Harrison | Department of Family Services Assistant Director
Many of the individuals that we are helping are not those who are signing applications: Many of our clients are children. With these enhancements and these resource requests, we are improving outcomes for children and families in Loudoun County What services will the new Employer Services Coordinator for the Virginia Initiative for Education and Work (VIEW) Program provide? There is a nexus between our public benefits positions and our Workforce Resource Center, where this person will work and will leverage their unique skill sets to match VIEW participants with employers. That role is basically to work with employers to let them know the unique needs of job seekers who are enrolled in the VIEW program.
The FY 2026 budget includes funding for 16 positions for the Department of Family Services’ Public Benefits Unit. How will the additional personnel in the Public Benefits Unit help improve the way the county delivers services to those in need? The additional resources will make an indelible change in the lives of our community members in the way of increasing access to the much-needed programs and services that we offer at the Department of Family Services. We are constantly trying to serve our client base more efficiently and respond with the urgency in which they seek services. And we have to be skilled and appropriately right-sized to do that.
FY 2026 BUDGET STORY, LOUDOUN COUNTY, VA / 17
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