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Mentoring program opportunities include community based (traditional), individual and couples match to a child, and school-based.

In-home residential services designed to develop and maintain skills ranging from personal care to protective oversight. Residential habilitation is an around-the-clock service in a group home setting or Extended Family Home/Shared Living. Risk services provides extra training and clinical staff involvement.

General Assistance helps with rent and utility payments that prevent eviction or utility shut-off. Funding for direct cremation with no services for residents, when other resources are not available.

Offers an operating While Intoxicated (OWI) program that are offered at all residential facilities.

Offers consultations to evaluate immigration legal options, advise clients on how to proceed, and represent clients throughout the legal process.

Maintains county parks and recreation areas and provides hunter safety classes, camping, fishing and boating information. Outdoor recreational opportunities are available through county parks and outdoor wildlife areas.

Christmas gifts to children whose parents are incarcerated. Camping and Sports Camps offered to children whose parents are incarcerated.

The program is active for Christmas 2025; the parent(s) in prison must register through their prison chaplain.

Provides adults and children with superior dental care in a comfortable atmosphere. Offered procedures include:

- Routine dental cleaning for adults and children

- Fillings

- Extractions

- Fluoride treatments (cavity prevention)

- Dental sealants

- Teeth whitening

- Periodontal services / periodontal disease prevention

- Dental emergencies

2026 Important Dates

Registration: July 6-August 6; Distribution: August 11

Offers school supplies for children in grades K-12. Students choose items based on their specific school list. Please note there is no guarantee all items will be available.

Offers to assist a relative caregiver who wants to obtain guardianship through probate court of a relative's child living in the home of the caregiver. This includes

- Educating and helping the caregiver negotiate the probate court system.

• Assisting caregivers to obtain required documents.
• Arranging for legal counsel in counties where legal counsel is necessary.

  EFSP caseworkers meet with the relative caregiver monthly until guardianship has been obtained or until other services have been provided. These services can include crisis intervention, applying for benefits, working with local schools for the child's enrollment, and referral to a range of needed services that the caregiver may have to help meet the basic needs of the family.

Accepts in-person locations (Des Moines, Ankeny, Boone, and Indianola) accept donations of personal hygiene items & diapers/wipes. All locations except for Indianola accept non-perishable food donations as well. Cash donations are always accepted.

Provides treatment for children, adolescents, and adults with mental health needs. Specially trained UI Behavioral Health experts provide behavioral, cognitive, and psychiatric diagnoses and treatment throughout the continuum of life.

Offers family counseling at the Foundation 2 Youth Shelter. The focus is on preventing runaway behavior, suicide attempts, child abuse, family breakup, school failure, or the placement of a runaway or homeless youth.

Offers to teach alternative skills of blindness such as Braille, cane travel, and alternative communication skills.

The sale of donated items sold in retail stores supports mission programs. People in the community donate gently used clothing, furniture and household items to Goodwill. The proceeds from the sales of the donated items subsidize mission programs, giving thousands of individuals in the Omaha area the chance to earn a living and find independence.

Goodwill also accepts residential computers, printers and monitors at no charge, regardless of age or condition. Drop off at any Goodwill donation center. No tube TVs.

GOODWILL RETAIL STORES AND DONATION CENTERS:

- 2221 N 109th Street, Omaha, (402) 493-3238

- 8457 West Center Road, Omaha, (402)397-0542

- 3175 East Elk Lane, Fremont, (402)727-5007

- 8507 Giles Road, Papillion, (402)592-2751

- 14227 Hillsdale Avenue Circle, Millard, (402)894-2357

- 1850 Madison Avenue, Council Bluffs, Iowa, (712) 328-8911

- 18125 R Plaza, Omaha, (402)895-0651

- 2303 Towne Centre Drive, Bellevue, (402)292-0475

- 15455 Ruggles Street, Omaha, (402)965-3588

- 4805 North 72nd Street, Omaha, (402)231-1966

- 11722 Standing Stone Drive, Gretna, (402)332-2707

- 1364 Washington Street, Blair, (402)533-8000

- 704 Gold Coast Drive, Papillion, (402)331-1112

- 201 North 78th Street, Omaha, (402)393-2800

- 4115 South 72nd Street, Omaha, (402)731-4888

ATTENDED DONATION CENTERS (ADCs):

- 5411 South 96th Street, Omaha

- 5018 Grover Street, Omaha

- 1056 North 204th Street, Elkhorn

Provides a long term-care facility that offers nursing, medical, rehabilitative care and mental health services for eligible veterans, their spouses, and/or widowed spouses. Includes physical and occupational therapy, audiology, lab, x-ray, pharmacy, optometry, dermatology, dental care, Social worker, end of life care, and recreational therapy.

Provides financial assistance for rent, utilities, transportation to medical care, prescription medications, and burial expenses for eligible residents. Services are coordinated by the Public Health Department.