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Guides families through their child’s journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child’s medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family’s income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

Assists Nebraskans who are age 60+ or have a disability (and/or their representatives) to allow the person to live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice.

- Assists in accessing resources based on the person’s needs and preferences, including information and referrals for services such as housing, personal care, transportation, food and nutrition, public benefits, therapies, employment, etc.

Offers a Disability Access Point (DAP) that helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and caregivers find services and supports they need, both short-term and long-term. DAPs provide information, help individuals make informed choices, make referrals, and follow up to help ensure individuals receive the support they need to live healthy, independent lives.

Services include:

• Information and Assistance: Provides information about programs and services based on identified needs and helps connect individuals with service providers in their communities.

• Options Counseling: Helps individuals make informed choices about available supports and services, typically for up to 90 days. Services may include benefits screening, application assistance, and follow-up to ensure supports are meeting the individual's needs.

• Financial Assistance: Provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and caregivers and help individuals remain in the home and community of their choice. Assistance may include short-term and long-term services.

Short-Term Supports (time-limited): Services may include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs not covered by insurance.

Long-Term Services and Supports: Services may include adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment services, including job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services, including in-home, in-facility, and day camps, home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

- Center for Independent Living.

- Information and referral for disability services.

- Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

- Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

- Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

- Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

- Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

- Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

- Center for Independent Living.

- Information and referral for disability services.

- Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

- Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

- Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

- Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

- Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

- Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Provides the BEACON Care Portal, which is a secure online platform that helps Illinois families, caregivers, healthcare providers, and state agency staff connect with behavioral health resources and services for children and youth. The portal helps identify state-funded and community-based programs based on a family's needs and eligibility. BEACON also allows families to submit referrals, upload documents, track the status of their requests, and connect with Resource Coordinators and Clinical Specialists within the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR), who can assist with navigating available resources.

- Center for Independent Living.

- Information and referral for disability services.

- Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

- Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

- Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

- Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

- Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

- Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Guides families through their child’s journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child’s medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family’s income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

Guides families through their child’s journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child’s medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family’s income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

Provides older adults and their caregivers with vital information on available programs, services, and benefits. Professionally trained staff assists individuals with navigating a wide range of resources, including healthcare options, financial aid, and support services. Seniors and caregivers can receive personalized guidance to address their needs and concerns.

Serves as the area's Aging and Disability Resource Center and Area Agency on Aging.

- Center for Independent Living.

- Information and referral for disability services.

- Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

- Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

- Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

- Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

- Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

- Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Guides families through their child’s journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child’s medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family’s income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child’s diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

Provides case management services to individuals managing issues related to epilepsy. Assists clients in gaining knowledge and skills necessary to handle common challenges such as medication compliance, access to public benefits, difficulties with the school system, and employee discrimination.

Provides a hotline offering education-related support for families of infants and children with disabilities.

- Providing information, referrals, and connections to local contacts for hearing and developmental screenings, service coordination, and access to resources such as disability registries that maintain data to support care management, public health planning, and medical research for individuals with specific disabilities or associated risk factors.

Offers a Disability Access Point (DAP) that helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and caregivers find services and supports they need, both short-term and long-term. DAPs provide information, help individuals make informed choices, make referrals, and follow up to help ensure individuals receive the support they need to live healthy, independent lives.

Services include:

• Information and Assistance: Provides information about programs and services based on identified needs and helps connect individuals with service providers in their communities.

• Options Counseling: Helps individuals make informed choices about available supports and services, typically for up to 90 days. Services may include benefits screening, application assistance, and follow-up to ensure supports are meeting the individual's needs.

• Financial Assistance: Provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and caregivers and help individuals remain in the home and community of their choice. Assistance may include short-term and long-term services.

Short-Term Supports (time-limited): Services may include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs not covered by insurance.

Long-Term Services and Supports: Services may include adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment services, including job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services, including in-home, in-facility, and day camps, home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Services for individuals with disabilities. Includes information and referral, service coordination, independent living skills training, individual and system advocacy, equipment loan and rental, barrier removal consultations and grants, and disability awareness training. Assists people with disabilities to transition from nursing homes to community based living. Offers a personal assistant referral and management program. Peer mentoring. Mobility options equipment repair and sales.

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.

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.

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

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, and Options Counseling.

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

Provide a single point of entry to the Illinois Early Intervention Program (EI). Early Intervention offers developmental support and case coordination services for families with children under 3 years old with developmental delays. Service Coordinators assist referred families through the process of enrollment into the EI, as well as initiate referrals for evaluations and direct services. Eligible participants receive case coordinator through CFC to monitor individualized goals, strategies, and services. Additionally, staff assist families with the transition from the EI program into local school/care special education services based on the family's priorities and the child's needs.