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Offers individual, couples, and family counseling, medication management, Substance use disorders, and domestic violence education.

The program aims to address the needs of eligible Veterans and their families to reduce suicide risk and improve mental health status and well-being by providing wrap-around, nonclinical suicide prevention support services to eligible households.

Office locations include:

- Lincoln - 6400 Cornhusker Highway, Lincoln, NE

- Gering - 1718 10th Street, Gering, NE

- North Platte - 109 East 2nd Street, North Platte, NE

- Grand Island - 2525 Old Potash Highway, Grand Island, NE

Provides a comprehensive child development program which serve children from birth to age five, pregnant women and their families. The program is child-focused and has the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.

Call or visit the website for the nearest Head Start/Early Head Start location near you. 

Assists veterans, their widows, widowers, wives, and minor children with filling out forms to enroll in VA Healthcare system as well as burial benefits, education, home loan assistance, VA pensions, and Veterans Affairs Medical Van Available. If a veteran needs a ride to a medical appointment, they may contact the Veterans Affairs Director at 641-373-0349 to arrange transportation with the VA Medical Van.

May also help with referrals to, or with funds, when available for food vouchers, rent and or utility payment and medical expense. 

Provides mental health services including:

• Individual and group therapy
• Case management
• Fitness restoration services

• Mental Health Juvenile Justice Program
• Psychiatry, nursing and medication management
• Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR) Program
• Wellness Groups

Provides assistance to individuals or families who are delinquent on monthly rental payments.

Offers two levels of Supported Community Living Services designed to meet the daily living needs of adults with disabilities and mental illness. These services increase a client's independence and provide a level of relief for family members and caretakers. The level of service is determined by the individual, guardians, case managers, and providers to best suit their needs.

Services may include employment assistance, day habilitation programs, and more.

Provides supportive housing services (transitional housing, supervised mental health housing, and senior assisted living at Fox River) and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Services (CILA group homes, Competitive Integrated Employment, Home-Based Services and Community Day Services). 

Matches sophomores, juniors, and seniors with elementary school students, who meet together at elementary schools for 45-60 minutes per week.

Matches engage in one-on-one activities such as playing games, working on homework, completing crafts, playing outside, and more. Mentors must meet the mentee at the same time on the same day each week.

Operates out of the following schools:

- Grand Island Public Schools;

- Grand Island Central Catholic;

- Wood River Rural Schools;

- Central City Public School;

- Grand Island Senior High;

- Grand Island Lutheran.

Offers Child Care Expense Assistance through the Iowa Department of Human services is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are absent for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment. APPLY TO BE A REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDER. SEARCH FOR REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS at www.hhs.iowa.gov

Offers Child Care Expense Assistance through the Iowa Department of Human services is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are absent for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment. APPLY TO BE A REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDER. SEARCH FOR REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS at www.hhs.iowa.gov

Program designed to help overcome the fear of falling, set goals, and promote exercise.

Parent Resource Information and Support Meetings (PRISM) monthly support and educational / informational meetings for parents whose children (of any age) have disabilities. Educational classes for adults and teens with disabilities, call for reservations if child care is needed. Some transportation is available; call for information.

Parent to Parent Omaha offers parent to parent support for families of newly-diagnosed children with developmental disabilities.

Just Friends is a peer mentoring and friendship program that gives adolescents with developmental disabilities the opportunity to participate in social and recreational activities with adolescents who do not have developmental disabilities. Staff members provide support to participants, offer monthly social events and provide educational classes.

Best Buddies is a peer mentoring program for young adults with developmental disabilities. Through this program, young adults with developmental disabilities are matched to local college students and participate in social recreational activities. Individuals with disabilities experience friendships with their peers and feel included.

Recreational activities include STARS Basketball League and First Chapter Book Club.

Ultimate Life is a fee-based companion program in which Community Living Specialists (CLS) accompany adults with developmental disabilities to various activities. The program was created to provide opportunities for individuals to participate in the community in activities of their choosing with someone other than a parent and/or staff and consumers from residential settings.

Advocacy and referral source of information on developmental disabilities for the community. Provides disability awareness training for community groups as well as students in area colleges who are majoring in medicine, special education and related fields; provides a voice in the community for issues that affect people with developmental disabilities.

Provides mental health and substance abuse counseling services to veterans. Services include treatment for addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and OCD.

Offers home visits to seniors and their families informing them of programs that will enable seniors to remain as independent and living at home as long as possible. The senior information specialist assists with benefits applications, answers questions concerning Medicare, supplemental insurance, help at home, and more.

Drive through food pantry.  Free pantry inside entry way available 24/7.  

Provides affordable senior rental housing for adults 62 years and older. Offers apartments at unrestricted market rates and area median income limits. There are also a limited number of units with rental subsidies. Contact for more information on available units