Provides free home visiting program to help parents in the role of being their child's first and most important teacher. Offers information on child development, positive discipline techniques, parenting skills, and other topics parents may feel are helpful. Link families with resources in the community. Services are provided in the home or a community location the family chooses. Also offers a preventive focus program to assist families with building protective factors and decreasing rate of DCFS intervention.

Promotes healthy growth and development in young children.

Parenting skills education.

Free and voluntary home visitation services to prenatal mothers and new parents utilizing the Healthy Families America model.

Home visitors share child development education and parenting support to enhance the parent/child bond. Families are connected to community resources and medical homes if needed. Screening and referral for developmental delays, substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health are also provided as part of the program.

Families are encouraged to enroll prenatally and can stay in services until the child reaches 3-5 years of age. Referrals to service can be made by any agency, health care provider, school or the client themselves.

Family Support Services specialists provide in-home and community educational and support services to assist with parenting and home management problems that place children at risk of abuse or neglect.

Intensive Family Preservation is a response to a family crisis that may, without intervention, result in the removal of children from the home. Services are varied but may include help with parenting strategies, relationship issues, communication skills, anger management, school problems, behavior problems, and life skills.

Parenting Time services are provided to children who have been removed from their biological family's home and are now allowed supervised visits with a member of their biological family. Activities include teaching or modeling parenting skills, reinforcing behavioral management skills and teaching coping skills. Specialists help families strengthen bonds by identifying issues that affect the family's relationships by observing and assessing visits. Specialists also provide information to assist with permanency plans for the child.

Family Support helps build families through strength-based activities such as developing appropriate social skills, teaching parenting and nurturing, creating family bonding, teaching awareness of boundaries, developing self esteem, seeking community resources, seeking employment, and teaching home economics.

Family resource program to support parents in educating and nurturing their children. The program provides parents with opportunities to move toward self-sufficiency by working with other community organizations. Health and mental health services are also provided to participants.

Program helps parents better understand their child's stages of development with individualized visits in the home. The weekly visits are 90 minutes in length and are designed to meet the needs of each family. Staff will assist families in planning activities that encourage the child's growth. Social activities will be held twice monthly to provide the opportunity to interact with your child and other families.

We offer home-visits, group-based parent education programs, and prenatal services.

Provides a voluntary home visiting program that provides family support and coaching for expectant parents and parents of young children ages 0-3. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, practical parenting skills, and family bonding. The agency's trained professionals provide regular visits based on the family's needs, preferences, and schedules. Visits may be in-person or virtual.

- Health screenings.

- Developmental testing.

- Family-centered activities.

- Child care referrals.

Family centered services include Teen Parents and the Law (TPAL) Classes - 12 sessions directed toward teen parents, funded by Boost4Families.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an early childhood family education program to assist and support families in preparing their children for success in school and beyond, beginning prenatal and extending to age 5.

Included in the Program:

-- Parent Group Meeting, which are opportunities to share information about parenting issues and child development. Parents learn and support each other, observe their children with other children and practice parenting skills.

-- Personal visits, during which a certified parent educator will share age-appropriate child development and parenting information, to help learn to observe children, and address parenting concerns.

-- Screenings to assess a child's overall development as well as health, hearing, and vision. Resource network - that link families to other community services.

Offers an after-school program for low-income children and families. Includes healthy meals and snacks, assistance with medical and dental care, educational field trips, and support services to the family.

Offers family support services to all pregnant women and families with children up to age 5.

Nurses and Family Support Workers make home visits to provide information on pregnancy, caring for a new baby, toddler development, family life skills, and referrals to community resources.

- Home Health Aide: Provides individuals an opportunity to maintain safety and independence in their home environments, delaying or preventing the need for transitions into a higher level of care such as a skilled nursing facility.

- Parenting Support: Offers home visits, educational opportunities, and community referrals so parents are empowered to maintain self-sufficient, healthy, and happy families.

- Shelter Nursing: Nurses visit homeless clients at shelters, crisis centers, and through outreach on the streets. Provides health screening, assessment, and referrals with the intent to ensure individuals and families residing in shelters have access to comprehensive health, community, educational and social services.

- Flu and Immunization Program: Provides immunizations clinics in the community, corporate sites, senior living centers, and drive through in Omaha, Lincoln, Council Bluffs, and surrounding communities.

- School Health: Provides health screening and assessment, referral, and follow-up; immunization compliance; physical and vision exam compliance (kindergarten, seventh grade, and new students); development of student health and emergency plans; communicable disease control; handling of sudden illness and injury; training of first responder teams and those giving medications; and health policy development.

We offer home-visits, group-based parent education programs, and prenatal services.

Provides the following services:

- Crisis counseling

- Follow-up home visits

- Parent education classes and support groups

- Necessities such as diapers, formula, clothes, etc.

A voluntary home visiting program that helps new and expectant parents strengthen their family's functioning and reduce their risk for child abuse and/or neglect. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, and good parenting skills while providing support to the family.

Doula services are also available. This includes prenatal information and support, labor coaching, breastfeeding, postpartum depression support, and assistance in the early weeks after childbirth

Prenatal support groups are also available.

Free one on one health education to pregnant families or children enrolled by 3 months of age. Program staff helps with any concerns with parenting and provide information on community resources.

Topics covered include pregnancy and prenatal care, newborn care, feeding and infant development, basic infant care, positive parenting, and family nutrition. The program works with the families weekly or every other week to learn to lessen the parenting stresses and develop skills to control their children's behaviors until the child is 5 years old.