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Provides information and assistance to caregivers of any age who are caring for someone age 60 or older. Services include needs assessment and assistance in accessing services needed by either the caregiver or the older person to relieve the stress and physical/financial burden of caregiving. Training and support is provided to the caregiver through caregiver support groups as well as printed materials, videos, and Internet access in the Caregiver Resource Room.
The Fayette County Social Services office can provide community residents with information and referral services to various economic support, disability related, and other health and social services that may be available to them.
Provides medical health information for women in Iowa. Topics covered include birth control and pregnancy, breast and cervical cancer, immunizations, child and infant health, domestic abuse, maternal and prenatal care, sexually transmitted diseases, perinatal depression, heart disease, and other health-related topics.

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Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
Medical Information Services
Specialized Information and Referral
Physician Referrals
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Helps support the healthy development of babies during pregnancy by identifying risks and providing a support system. The Nine2Thrive project model is a public - private partnership bridging primary care and public health services.

Through screenings, prenatal healthcare providers refer pregnant individuals to Nine2Thrive for free, confidential connection to support. Individuals can refer themselves to the Nine2Thrive program, but their primary OB Physician must be in Polk County or the South Central Iowa Medical Clinic in Corydon. Support Specialists from Nine2Thrive link pregnant individuals to community and healthcare resources. The Nine2Thrive Support Specialists follow up with the referring healthcare provider.
Community supports individuals may be linked to include: mental health supports, financial assistance, parenting support & education, child development information, other individualized supports to meet the family's needs.

Confidential, free support for veterans, active duty personnel, and their families. A Resource Navigator is available to connect individuals to veteran, installation, and community-based resources to meet needs.

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Case/Care Management
Specialized Information and Referral
State-funded agency offering treatment and preventative resources for those impacted by a gambling addiction.

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Gambling Disorder Counseling
Gambling Disorder Relapse Prevention
Gambling Disorder Helplines
Specialized Information and Referral

Provides the starting point for obtaining information and arranging services or referrals for individuals age 60 and over and their families. Counselors connect people with resources in the community, providing information about a broad range of community services and government programs.

Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Centers for Independent Living
Disease/Disability Registries

Provides information and referrals to programs and services for Iowans with disabilities, their families, and service providers. Can access local, state, and national programs for people with health-related conditions and disabilities.

Guide contains a directory of local resources to help caregivers find services and support.

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Specialized Information and Referral

Provides social support to Latinos in the area. Services offered in Spanish.

Social Services include:

-- Risk education (alcohol, drugs, gambling, and other risk factors)

-- DUI assessments

-- Interpreter services

-- Help to complete community hours

-- Healthy Choices Youth Program

-- Youth Support Groups

-- Early Intervention and Prevention

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Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Court Ordered Community Service Referral Programs
Cultural Heritage Programs
Youth Outreach Programs
Language Interpretation
Cultural Heritage Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention

Caregiver Burnout: Tips to Prevent and Manage Stress

Recognize the causes and symptoms so you can get the help you need: http://www.aarp.org/caregiverstress


AARP Caregiver Life Balance Tips

How to give yourself the caregiving break you need. Advice on how to avoid burnout while juggling family caregiving with work and childcare responsibilities: www.aarp.org/caregiving/life-balance


Respite Care: How to Give Yourself the Caregiving Break You Need

Learn what services are available to help, such as volunteers, day programs, and aides: www.aarp.org/respitecareplan


AARP's Online Community

An online forum to connect with others that have the same interests, including caregiving, games, entertainment, home and family, money, and many more topics of interest: www.aarp.org/caregivingcommunity


AARP Local Pages

Features online and local events: https://local.aarp.org


Healthy Living

Suite of web-based health tools to help caregivers stay healthy and plan ahead. Tools can help calculate BMI, decode Medicare summary notices, and estimate the cost of long term care: www.aarp.org/healthtools

Care to Talk

Virtual platform of discussion topics meant to spark meaningful dialogue between caregivers and care recipients and address important life issues and long-term healthcare plans: Caretotalk.aarp.org

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Specialized Information and Referral
Parent support and parenting education.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Based Parenting Education

Services include:

-- Access/screening.

-- Anger Management Counseling.

-- Caregiver Connection.

-- Crisis stabilization services.

-- Case Management.

-- Child Outpatient Therapy.

-- Family Counseling.

-- Linkage with psychiatric medical services.

-- ADHD Services and Resources.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Anger Management
Psychiatric Case Management
In Person Crisis Intervention
Caregiver Counseling
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Mental Health Evaluation
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
Advocacy and services for persons with all types of disabilities including skills training, peer counseling, information and referral, and technical assistance about the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Blind Services works with individuals one-on-one to instruct persons who have lost (or are losing) their vision, on how to read Braille and organize their household and travel. Produces and replicates Braille materials. Translates materials such as menus and brochures into Braille and produces multiple copies as a service to the community. (There is a normal cost per Braille page produced, plus $25 per hour for formatting.)

Captioning at Real Time (CART) provides the translation of spoken words into text using a stenotype machine operated by a stenographer/reporter. Real-time software is used to display the text onto a computer monitor, and a projector or other device is used to display the text on a television or larger screen. CART is especially valuable in large meetings or in communications with a person who is deaf or has hearing loss. CART can be utilized in following settings: community events and workshops, government, legal, educational, medical, theater and auditorium, and captioning of movies and videos.

Deaf and Hard of Hearing Services provides one-on-one services for independent living skills training, information and referral, advocacy, and peer counseling. Serves as a TTY Distribution site for ITAC (Illinois Telecommunications Access Commission), which provides free TTY devices to Illinois residents. Distributes applications for Iowa TTY distributions for Iowa residents who are qualified (speech impaired or hard of hearing). Distributes amplified phones for residents of Illinois of all ages who have a difficult time hearing on the phone.

Provide information and resources on low-tech independent living devices such as magnifiers, talking watches, etc., when funding is available.

Housing assistance provides information and problem-solving assistance with locating and securing affordable, accessible housing, including research into public and private-sector housing markets.

Information and Referral service provides information through Illinois/Iowa Center for Independent Living's system and library. Requests for information can be made by phone, mail, or in person, and can include loans of library materials.

Outreach services offers presentations, brochures, media releases, public service announcements, media interviews, and video programs to inform the public of programs and services offered.

Volunteers are utilized in programs, services, and office operations; volunteers receive training and supervision appropriate to their duties.

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Braille Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Disease/Disability Registries
Disability Rights Groups
Assistive Technology Equipment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
ADA Implementation Assistance
Braille Transcription
Centers for Independent Living

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

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Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Home Delivered Meals
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Homemaker Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Case/Care Management
Medicare Information/Counseling
Children's In Home Respite Care
Adult In Home Respite Care
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

Information & Assistance: Provides information, assistance, or referrals for seniors, persons with disabilities, and their family caregivers for benefits and services.

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Specialized Information and Referral

10 Tips on How To Get Started

Ten ways to get started caring for a family member or friend: www.aarp.org/211care


5 Steps for Family Caregivers

Tips to ease the transition into caregiving: www.aarp.org/firsttimecaregiving


Taking the Stress out of Family Caregiving

Guide to help find support, make tough decisions, and handle conflict during the caregiving journey: www.aarp.org/careguides


Caregiving Questions and Answer Tool

Answers about caregiving: www.aarp.org/caregiving/answers

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Specialized Information and Referral

The Hispanic Center provides families with information in Spanish and links them to services in Spanish. Services provided include:

-- Outreach

-- Advocacy

-- Interpretation

-- Translation

-- Case Management

-- Information and Referrals

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Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Language Interpretation
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation is a Community Action Agency. Family Service Specialists work with individuals and families facing difficult and crisis situations. They are able to provide assistance in connecting to needed community programs and services. In addition, base on funding and donations, the office can support a crisis fund which allows them to provide assistance with rent, medical and prescription expenses, gas money, utilities, and other basic necessities when the household is facing an emergency situation. The agency actively seeks funds for the crisis program and all funds donated to a county stay in that county and are used to support the residents of that county.

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Gas Service Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Gas Money
Community Action Agencies
General Relief
Medical Care Expense Assistance
Heating Fuel Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Expense Assistance
Electric Service Payment Assistance
Undesignated Temporary Financial Assistance
Assistance with information, referral, distribution and completion of applications for the Food Assistance Program (formerly food stamps).

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Specialized Information and Referral
Certificates/Forms Assistance

Provides options counseling, information, agency referrals, and assistance services such as signing up for state/federal benefits or programs and workshops. Also hands out farmers market coupons.

Provides a variety of education programs to better the health of the community. Many of these programs are funded through grants, and are offered at little or no cost to the residents.

Programs include:

-- Sexual Health Education: Provides Making Proud Choices! (CUPHD's age-appropriate, comprehensive sex education programming) and sexual health resources

-- Tobacco Initiatives: Provides a Youth Tobacco Prevention, Smoke-Free Illinois Act Enforcement, and Tobacco Prevention Coalition programs. Also provides information regarding the health effects of e-cigarettes

-- Community Health Resources: Provides the Germ Busters, Worksite Wellness, Physical Activity and Active Transportation, and Period Product Drive programs. Also provides information regarding statistics and policies related to chronic diseases and obesity

-- Adolescent Health Services: Provides the Adolescent Health Program, resources and support groups for affordable substance abuse treatment services, resources for affordable mental and behavioral health care

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Tobacco Use Education/Prevention
Specialized Information and Referral
Sexuality/Reproductive Health Education
General Health Education Programs
Community Wellness Programs
Assists Nebraskans who are 60 years and over or have a disability and/or their representatives in accessing services and supports to allow the person to live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice. ADRC staff are available by phone or in person to assist in accessing resources based on the person's needs and preferences. This may include providing information and referrals for services such as housing, personal care, transportation, food and nutrition, public benefits, therapies, employment, etc.

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Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Specialized Information and Referral

Programs that offer a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include:

-- Information and referral services.

-- Referrals for attendant care.

-- Attendant recruitment and training programs.

-- Independent living skills training.

-- Assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs.

-- Peer counseling.

-- Individual and community advocacy.

-- Transition from institutions into the community.

-- Deflection from institutional placement.

-- Transition from youth to adult services.

-- Advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Centers for Independent Living
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups