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Offers programs to youth and young adults with epilepsy. Services include day camps or weeklong camps filled with sorts of activities, games, sports, and crafts.

Adult Co-occurring Disorders Residential Treatment Program offers transitional housing and residential treatment for adults 19 and over with co-occurring severe and persistent mental illness and substance dependence. Services include individual, group, and family counseling; recreational therapy; case management; and psychiatric services. Expected stay of 6-8 months.

Community Transitions provides psychiatric residential rehabilitation services in a residential setting to prepare adults with serious mental illness for community living.

Provides mental health services to those in need. Services include a variety of therapeutic interventions such as general counseling, psychiatry, TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation), Spravato, Ketamine Infusions, QEEG (Quantitative electroencephalogram), and genetic testing. 

Supervises Election and Voter Information, Tax Levies, Maps and Census Information, CAFR, and Animal Licenses. Provides assistance to residents in unincorporated parts of Polk County to register their pets and obtain animal licenses.

Also offers access to tax forms, including federal, state, and property tax-related documents, as well as applications for tax relief, rent rebates, and other similar resources.

Provides long-term care to help veterans and their families when dealing with a disability, chronic (long-lasting) illness, or serious health issues related to aging. Long-term health care services include 24 hour nursing and medical care, physical therapy, and help with daily tasks like bathing, dressing, making meals, and taking medicine.

Provides public health services to the residents of Winneshiek County. Services can include health supervision and counseling, childhood immunizations, adolescent/adult immunizations (i.e. tetanus, Hepatitis B), and blood pressure checks.

Assists low-income homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their primary heating costs for the winter heating season. Assistance is based on household income, size, type of fuel and type of housing. The application period is from October 1-April 30 for elderly and disabled households and November 1-April 30th for the rest of the households. Persons applying must meet 200% poverty guidelines. LIHEAP also offers a crisis program that may be able to assist homeowners who are with no heat or limited heat. The furnace component for crisis runs October 1-April 30th. May be able to help with repairs on a furnace but cannot replace the furnace. Keep checking back on the furnace program as it is dependent on funding that changes frequently.

Provides Nebraskans with a centralized location for viewing their current benefits, including helpful links to take action on their benefits programs.

Nebraskans may apply online for multiple assistance programs, including:

- Healthcare/Medicaid

- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

- Child Care Subsidy (CC)

- Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

- Emergency Assistance (EA)

- Social Services for Families, Children, and Youth (SSCF)

- Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP)

- Assistance to Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD)

- State Disability Program (SDP)

- Social Services for the Aged and Disabled (SSAD)

- Personal Assistance Services (PAS)

- Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)

Provides counseling services to individuals, couples and families. Services work to help those dealing with issues of anxiety, depression, family conflict, medical illness, and behavioral difficulties. A variety of interventions and coping skills will be provided, based upon individual treatment planning and agreed upon by the patient and the healthcare team.

Offers one time financial assistance to individuals and families experiencing a crisis that has caused a homeless or near homeless situation. Stability assistance can be used for past due rent, past due utilities, or propane (depending on county). Assistance is available sporadically and only when funding is available.

Oversees the election process, voter registration, maintains financial records for the county, maintains current real estate information and assessment maps.

Offers a recurring event, every last Friday of the month for individuals in the recovery community. 

Provides a program for children and adolescents after school hours. Center staff helps students with their homework, including comprehensive reading lessons. The After-School Program will provide a nutritious meal and help children build character through arts and crafts and physical fitness programs.

Safeguards the rights of all employed persons in the State to obtain and hold employment without discrimination resulting from one or more of the protected basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy), disability, marital status, age, retaliation, or equal pay.

Eliminates unlawful discrimination in the acquisition, ownership, possession, or enjoyment of housing in Nebraska.

Ensures the full and equal enjoyment of any place of public accommodation without subjection to unlawful discrimination, race, creed, colon, sex, religion, national origin, ancestry, and retaliation.

Receives and investigates charges of unlawful discrimination practices in Nebraska relating to employment, housing, and public accommodations.

Education, mediation, and conciliation, attempting to eliminate unlawful discrimination.

Holds public hearings and makes case referrals for litigation through the Attorney General's office to carry out the purposes of the statutes administered by NEOC.

Serves persons who are victims of alleged unlawful discrimination by employer, union, provider of housing, housing financier, or public proprietor due to membership in designated protected classes.

Training is provided in these areas free of charge.

Offers a snow removal service provided at no cost to senior citizens (age 65 and older) whose annual household income is less than 300% of federal poverty guidelines and disabled residents whose annual household income is less than 300% of federal poverty guidelines. Contractors will remove snow accumulations of 2" or more at the cities discretion.

Provides youth individuals in crisis a therapeutic place to receive care. Services include a youth shelter for children ages 12-17 who are unhoused, or have run away from home, were kicked out of the home, or couch surfing. Individuals staying on the farm may participate in individual and family counseling, peer support groups, therapeutic recreation with arts, music, and animals. Services also include short-term stabilization for youth individuals ages 10-17 experiencing a mental health crisis for 3-10 days.

Rent payment assistance for residents in need.