The Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) administers a wide spectrum of social services programs, including those related to public assistance; Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program; child protective services; foster care and adoption; child care subsidy and licensing; child support enforcement; senior and long-term care; aging services; alcohol and drug abuse services; mental health services; vocational rehabilitation; developmental disabilities services; health care facilities inspections and licensing; state-run health care facilities to serve difficult-to-place populations and those under civil and forensic commitment; and public health functions such as communicable disease control, epidemiology, laboratory services, and chronic disease prevention.