In Home Services | Lutheran Family Services - Nebraska/Western Iowa

Provides in-home and community educational and support services to assist with parenting and home management problems that place children at risk of abuse or neglect.

- Intensive Family Preservation: Provides a response to a family crisis that may result in the removal of children from the home. Services may include help with parenting strategies, relationship issues, communication skills, anger management, school problems, behavior problems, and life skills.

- Parenting Time: Provided to children who have been removed from their biological family’s home and are now allowed supervised visits. Activities include teaching or modeling parenting skills, reinforcing behavioral management skills, and teaching coping skills. Specialists also provide information to assist with permanency plans for the child.

- Family Support: Helps build families through activities such as developing appropriate social skills, teaching parenting and nurturing, creating family bonding, seeking community resources, seeking employment, and teaching home economics.