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Provides clinical breast exams, mammograms, pap tests, and pelvic exams for qualifying women.

Offers a food pantry located at Bethesda Lutheran Church. May be visited once per month. Also accepts food donations.

Provides a local registry for deaths and births occurring in Pike County. Certified copies of birth certificates for those born in Pike County from 1967 to present are available at the health department. Certified copies of death certificates for those who died in Pike County from 1970 to present are available at the health department. 

Offers a variety of academic opportunities in transfer and career programs.

Offers day habilitation services that are provided outside a member’s residential setting and are designed to foster the acquisition of skills, building positive social behavior and interpersonal competence, greater independence, and personal choices. Activities include assistance with acquisition, retention, or improvement of self-help, socialization and adaptive skills that enhance social development and offer opportunities for community inclusion.

Maintains and provides access to official real estate documents, contracts, articles of incorporation, partnerships, state and federal tax liens, military records, birth, divorce, death, and marriage records. Offers services for issuing and renewing licenses for ATVs, boats, snowmobiles, and fishing, as well as marriage licenses and certificates. Operates as a Passport acceptance facility with photo services and processes military records for tax exemptions and benefits.

Additionally, issues public health permits to certify compliance with health laws for various facilities and institutions. Services include the establishment of standards, review of applications, issuance of permits, and enforcement of compliance through inspections and monitoring.

Offers home health care and hospice services. Care may include:

• Regular visits to patient's home to provide care.

  - Coordinate services needed from other healthcare providers, including doctors, therapists, social workers and nurse aides.

• Keeps family and primary care physician informed about progress and care plan.

  VNA will also answer questions about hospice care or end-of-life questions, even if a patient is not ready for hospice care at this time. Topics include:

• Advance directives.

• End-of-life issues.

• Making plans to provide care for a loved one with a terminal illness.

• Grief and loss issues.

• Understanding palliative care vs. curative treatment.

Food pantry offering non-perishable items.

Offers mentoring, goal achievement, financial aid support, last dollar in scholarships and college-bound programming to youth from Omaha’s under-resourced communities, providing these students with a continuum of support from pre-kindergarten to careers.

Limited support with utility costs.

Provides autism screenings and help find diagnostic services. Teams help Iowa families navigate local supports and services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and provide family-to-family support. 

Provides Nebraskans with a centralized location for viewing their current benefits, including helpful links to take action on their benefits programs.

Nebraskans may apply online for multiple assistance programs, including:

- Healthcare/Medicaid

- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

- Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)

- Child Care Subsidy (CC)

- Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)

- Emergency Assistance (EA)

- Social Services for Families, Children, and Youth (SSCF)

- Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP)

- Assistance to Aged, Blind or Disabled (AABD)

- State Disability Program (SDP)

- Social Services for the Aged and Disabled (SSAD)

- Personal Assistance Services (PAS)

- Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)

Provides an emergency shelter for young men and young women. The staff work with the youth and their families to solidify permanent housing, education, and an on-going support network. Services are available to both pregnant and/or parenting teens.

Provides an after-school club program. To be added to the after-hour or summer program at the Ames Club must email [email protected]. To be added to the after-hour or summer program at the Nevada Club email [email protected]. 

Rapid re-housing for individuals and families.

Offers crisis funding for those needing assistance with past due rent or utilities to help families out in a crisis situation.

Aims to reduce the probability of continued criminal behavior and further penetration into the justice system.

Provides all children between the ages of 0 to 5 to receive a high-quality, age-appropriate book to all registered children, addressed to them, at no cost to the child’s family.

Supportive home for those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction; residents must abide by the rules of the home, including never using drugs or alcohol while a resident. Homes may house men, women, women with children, or men with children.

Vacancies can be searched online at www.oxfordvacancies.com.

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Offers FIP (Family Investment Program) a cash assistance program for children and their families who have low income, also available to relatives caring for children whose parents are not in the home. The goal of FIP is to help families leave poverty and become self supporting, can participate for up to 60 months. FIP is Iowa's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Provides trained staff who serve as investigators when there is an allegation of abuse, neglect and/or financial exploitation of adults with disabilities (ages 18-59) or seniors (age 60 or over). Staff meet with alleged victims to assess their safety and services. Depending on the outcome of the assessment, staff may link individuals to services that can address an identified need and can stay involved for up to one year providing education and support.