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Offers counseling services for a variety of needs, including anxiety, depression, anger management, trauma and emotional pain, grief, marriage and parenting challenges, and conditions such as ADD and ADHD.

Additionally, provides emotional support, information, and guidance for individuals with disabilities, those dealing with illnesses (including potentially fatal conditions), or those coping with the effects of illness, injury, or surgery. Services also address life adjustments, coping strategies, and decision-making to enhance independent functioning, as well as support for individuals with a family history of specific health conditions or disabilities.

Emergency operations center for the County, which handles emergency response incidents, including accidents, fires, floods, storms and other disasters. Also responsible for requesting federal assistance after a disaster.

Offers an afterschool and summer programming to elementary and middle school students. Schools served during the school year include Edmunds, Walnut St., Hubbell, Perkins, Greenwood, Callanan and Merrill. Programming focuses on four tenets: Academics, Social Skill Building, Health, and Recreation. 

Promotes wellness through evidence-based workshops and monthly education events such as Fresh Conversations (nutrition/health topics); Better Choices Better Health (chronic disease management); Matter of Balance (falls prevention) and TaiChi for Arthritis for Falls Prevention.

General medical care for all. Services include:

- Audiology.

- Family medicine.

- ENT.

- Gastroenterology.

- Internal medicine.

- Pediatrics.

Provides help for justice involved individuals to initiate and sustain their recovery and to build meaningful and healthy lifestyles from incarceration to release and reintegration into their communities.

Provides a Client Choice Food Pantry that is available once every 30 days for clients. No referral needed.

Free and confidential services for pregnant women.

Pregnancy tests by appointment or walk in basis as available.

Adoption education and referrals.

Sexual risk avoidance education.

Fetal development and pregnancy education and classes.

Parenting classes.

Fatherhood classes.

Bible studies and spiritual support.

Material assistance through Bella's Boutique offers free maternity clothes, baby equipment, baby clothing up to 3T, and free diapers; call for information.

Unemployment Insurance benefits assist individuals who are unemployed through no fault of their own. Benefits are paid from the Nebraska State Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund. The fund is supported solely by a special tax on employers. Unemployment claims are filed online at NEworks.nebraska.gov.

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.

Provides assistance to eligible families in need. Assistance may include rent, auto repairs, gas cards, help with medical care, homelessness, referrals to other organizations, etc. Clients must agree to allow a two person team to make an in-home visit to review the situation.