Interesting Facts

The Department of Human Services’ staff and programs come into contact with approximately 23,000 persons per day.
The Department of Human Services provides services that span an individual’s life from prenatal to elderly and every age in between.
Aging Services provides over 524,700 meals through the Meals on Wheels Program and to participants in Senior Center during a year.
In the first six months of the Homeless Assistance Rental Program (HARP), 42 of the 53 people served were former County jail inmates. Combined the 42 people had over 20 years in the County jail.
Today less than 7% of tobacco retailers illegally sell tobacco products to underage individuals, compared to 43% in the mid 1990’s.
The Library staff moves over nine tons of material between libraries each day. The average library patron checks out 25 items per year.
Our services save the taxpayers money:

The average cost to taxpayers for Aging Services to allow someone to remain independent—to live on their own—is $4,800 compared to an average of cost of nearly $43,000 to pay for someone in a nursing home. This represents nearly $40,000 in savings per year per person.
In 2008, Mental Health service programs provided to those coming out of jail saved society nearly $24 million in future law enforcement, incarceration, treatment, and victim reparation costs.
It costs approximately $26,000 per year to treat a 3-member family where a parent is addicted to Methamphetamine. Without treatment, it costs the state about $100,000 per year ($33,000 per year to incarcerate the adult; $64,000 to place two children in state foster care) to serve the family. This represents a savings of $74,000 per family when substance abuse treatment services are available.