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Provides a range of therapy and counseling services to children, teens, adults, and parents. Intensive services are available for children and teens at risk of entering the child welfare or juvenile justice system, including therapy, skill development, supervision, and referrals to community resources.

Parent counseling services are offered to address emotional difficulties or conflicts related to parenting roles, with options for individual, group, or conjoint counseling to explore and resolve mental, emotional, or social challenges impacting parenting.

Telehealth services offered statewide. 

Offers affordable home repair services for low-income homeowners, allowing them to get work done now and pay for it later – sometimes years down the line. Homeowners are invited to apply for the program and are accepted based on their household income and assessed home value. Services may include exterior repairs (such as roofs and siding), critical home repair (such as furnaces and water heaters), weatherization (such as windows and insulation), and accessibility (such as ramps, grab bars, and bath modifications). 

Helpline offers a gambling assessment.  Provides individualized treatment plans for those struggling with a gambling problem. The intensity of treatment, the length of treatment, and the goals to be achieved are based on individual client need and agreement.  

Offers various programs during the school year when there are days off from school. Programming includes field trips, swimming, and weekly themes.

Offers a career center on site which provides help with resumes, applications, job referrals, practice interviews, and financial literacy training, when available.

Offers a place to complete digital projects for free. Shoot and edit video using a green screen, convert old home videos to DVDs, color-correct family photos, and more. Items available for use include a Laser Engraver, Video Editing Station, Video/Photography Station, Sewing Macine, Media Conversion Station and an Adobe Creation Station.

Rent assistance.

Utility payment assistance.

Gas vouchers are available for doctor appointments and job interviews.

The Safety and Labor Standards division assists employers and workers with labor standards compliance issues, including resolution of wage complaints and child labor complaints.

Also administers the Contractor Registration Act, the Employee Classification Act, the Farm Labor Contractors Act and the Meatpacking Industry Workers Bill of Rights.

At the request of private employers, the agency conducts no-cost safety and health consultations to assist businesses in identifying potential hazards.

Provide offenders with appropriate supervision and immediate sanctions and incentive to enhance public safety. Hold offenders accountable for their actions by requiring adherence to court orders and facilitating victim reparation. Create the opportunity and environment for offenders to change their values and beliefs through provision of appropriate competency development resources. 

Provides protective services for adults 60 and over, and adults with disabilities age 18 and over. Abuses of the nature defined by the Adult Protective Services program are a type of domestic violence that have a strong and lasting impact on adults with disabilities and older adults of our community. This type of abuse affects a victim’s overall health and well-being and can affect health concerns such as blood pressure, heart problems, and other medical problems.

Provides classes for instruction/education in the Creighton FertilityCare System and Natural Family Planning, for family planning to avoid pregnancy or achieve pregnancy. Also helps with understanding hormonal/reproductive disorders in women.

Women are taught to chart their cycles, to assist in treatment of painful/heavy menses, PMS, irregular cycles, PCOS, infertility, family planning, and women's health.

Provides abstinence/chastity education.

Offers educational presentations to groups, as well as educational resources such as a lending library, pamphlets, books, and YouTube videos.

Offers assistance to women coping with premenstrual syndrome symptoms, infertile couples, and Sympto-Thermal users.

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.

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)

Offers counseling and wellness services for youth, adults, and families in the community who are experiencing difficulty in relationships, socialization, physical or mental wellness and emotional concerns. Some services/counseling types include, individual and family counseling, group sessions, case management, child abuse, sex abuse, and neglect, domestic violence, major depressive disorder, bi-polar disorder, and other mood disorders, parent/child relational issues, and PTSD and other anxiety disorders.