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Support and guidance to family and friends of person(s) with Alzheimer’s disease and/or a related dementia. Provides information and resources, support, research, public education, care consultations for families and person(s) with the disease, and advocate for the needs of individuals and their families.

Local monthly support group meetings and a toll-free helpline.

Safe Return Program helps to safely locate wandering persons with dementia.

Provides a voluntary program for individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist with skill development and employment. Services include job search support, structured job search activities, and classroom training, which includes computer literacy instruction to help participants learn or improve their skills in using computers, hardware, and various software applications.

Emergency shelter for single men.

Need-based Scholarship Program - Provides approximately $1.55 million in scholarship funding each year to Nebraska’s nonprofit public and private colleges. The colleges then award the funds to eligible students who demonstrate financial need, which may include middle-income as well as low-income students. Reaching Your Potential Scholarship Program - Students who face significant obstacles to higher education are the target of this need-based, renewable scholarship program which provides approximately $100,000 in scholarships each year. Applicants are referred to the program by community agencies and colleges statewide. College Access Grants Program - Provides funding for Nebraska high schools that seek to develop or enhance college access activities within their school. The program’s goal is to increase the number of Nebraska students going to college. Every two years, EducationQuest provides grants to approximately 15 high schools and commits funding to each school for four years. Funding amounts depend on the high school’s enrollment.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp.

Meals served. Limited bus service.

Provides information and legal assistance to victims of state-declared disasters that result from flooding, tornadoes and other natural disasters. Also hosts disaster preparedness workshops and presentations for the general public and provides ongoing training and webinars for volunteer attorneys.

Common legal issues for which this program provides assistance:

- Insurance Issues: Includes submitting claims, avoiding public adjuster fraud, negotiating insurance settlements, and filing an appeal.

- Housing - Renters: Includes identifying the rights as a renter of a damaged unit, facilitating communication with landlords, negotiating early termination of a lease, resolving issues with renter’s insurance claims, and recovering personal items from damaged rental units.

- Contractor Fraud Issues: Includes hiring a contractor and avoiding fraud, reviewing work contracts/estimates, obtaining proper work permits for repairs, passing city inspection, and recognizing and preventing predatory lending.

- Government Benefits: Includes applying for benefits and/or filing an appeal for denial of benefits, benefit award disagreement, or overpayment notices.

- Housing - Owners: Includes negotiating payments, understanding a homeowner's options in real estate contracts, and obtaining disaster assistance.

- Document Recovery: Including replacing lost documents (driver’s licenses, birth certificates, Social Security cards, EBT cards, etc.) and replacing immigration documents.

The Circuit Clerk is the official record keeper of the Court. All cvil, probate, traffic, criminal, and juvenile cases are filed through the Clerk's office. Also collects and disperses all monies ordered to be paid by the court.

Provides services and support to individuals in their own homes and communities rather than in a clinical setting, including a mobile mental health team and individualized service delivery outside the Inspiring Lives office.

Services may include in-person treatment, help in managing symptoms of the illness, immediate crisis response, case management, peer support, supportive therapy, and practical support in coping with day-to-day demands.

Drive-thru food pantry offering perishable and non-perishable items.

Provides outpatient behavioral health services to those in need. Services include counseling (both individual and group), therapy, supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges, and psychosocial rehabilitation (groups to help people with daily living skills and mental illness recovery).

Provides a day habilitation program for individuals who would like to work on life-skill goals such as cooking, cleaning, socialization, community safety, etc. through a program called Community Integration. Individuals have the opportunity to be active and access the community through communication and socialization activities.

Information for startup and small businesses in Nebraska.

- Reduces the response time of government to business-related questions.

- Offers business marketing research assistance and information about the network of business assistance and economic development programs.

Early Access is a partnership between families with young children, birth to age three, and providers from the Departments of Education, Public Health, Human Services, the Child Health Specialty Clinics. Families and staff work together in identifying, coordinating and providing needed services and resources that will help the family assist their infant or toddler to grow and develop.

Early Childhood Education Services offer instructional and supportive services for special needs children and their families, in cooperation with local school districts. Offers developmental and hearing screenings as well as educational evaluations. Instructional and supportive services include home intervention, speech and language therapy, physical and occupational therapy, toddler groups, and parent education and consultation to preschools and daycare centers.

Offers Child Care Expense Assistance through the Iowa Department of Human services is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are absent for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment. APPLY TO BE A REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDER. SEARCH FOR REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS at www.hhs.iowa.gov

Clothing and housewares closet open to those in need.

Affordable housing, with rent based on income.

Provides weatherization services to low income households. Helps conserve fuel and reduce energy costs by making homes and apartments more energy efficient. Also provides many health and safety upgrades.

Services vary, but may include insulation, furnace work, and air sealing.

Provides comprehensive health care services, including lab tests, EKGs, skin biopsies, geriatric assessments, cryotherapy, and more.

Information pertaining to all aspects of Huntington's Disease.

- Referrals to local support groups, chapter social workers, physicians, nursing home, and a variety of other resources via local representatives.