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Federally funded supplemental food and nutrition education program intended to improve the nutritional status of eligible pregnant, postpartum, and breast feeding women, infants, and children up to the age of five. Includes family case management.

WIC participants receive ongoing nutritional assessments, medical assessments, and vouchers for nutritious foods intended to supplement their diet. WIC foods are individually determined for each participant.

Foster care program for teens.

Offers care to the terminally ill and their families. Care encompasses the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of the family unit with emphasis on the desires of the patient and family. Patients are served wherever they call home.

The 8-bed inpatient facility offers a home-like environment, while providing Hospice's comfort-oriented care and services, including expert pain and symptom management, 24-hour nursing care, assistance with tasks of daily living, friendly visits from volunteers, spiritual and psychosocial counseling for patients and their loved ones, and bereavement care and support groups for surviving family members.

Offers behavioral health services to support children, youth, adults, and families with mental health or substance use concerns. Services may include assessment, counseling, therapy, psychiatry, medication support, care coordination, and referrals.

Provides primary medical, dental, and behavioral healthcare to anyone who visits the clinic, without regard to insurance status or ability to pay. Services include but are not limited to well-child visits, school and sports physicals, prenatal care, chronic disease management, counseling, medication assistance recovery treatment, on-site lab, and on-site pharmacy.

Provides an alternative school giving students another change to succeed. Offering tools, support and different teaching methods to help students learn in the way that works best for them. 

Offers library services. Services include books (including eBooks), audiobooks, movies, music, periodicals, games, toys, musical instruments, technological devices for checkout, programs and activities for individuals of all ages, computers with internet and word processing, fax machines, copiers, interlibrary loan and home delivery, walkers and assistive technology for in-library use.

Aims to address the needs of eligible Veterans and their families to reduce suicide risk and improve mental health status and well-being by providing wrap-around, nonclinical suicide prevention support services to eligible households.

Office locations include:

- Lincoln - 6400 Cornhusker Highway, Lincoln, NE.

- Gering - 1718 10th Street, Gering, NE.

- North Platte - 109 East 2nd Street, North Platte, NE.

- Grand Island - 2525 Old Potash Highway, Grand Island, NE.

Offers library services. Items that may be borrowed from or used in the library include books, music recordings, videos and DVDs, audiobooks, e-books, computer software, magazines, and newspapers. The library also has computers and Wi-Fi for public access. There are also library sponsored programs for all ages offered.

- Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes committed in Douglas County.

- Advises and represents the County Board and the elected and appointed officials of Douglas County.

- Assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection.

- Goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Offers pediatrics, well child visits, developmental screenings and guidance on nutrition, growth and safety to support children's well-being up to age 21.

Offers SERVSAFE® classes for food service professionals, providing comprehensive training on food hazards, proper food handling practices, and regulatory requirements to ensure food safety and prevent foodborne-illness outbreaks. 

Provides a variety of supported employment programs and services to individuals with disabilities.

Programs and services include:

- Career counseling: assists individuals in identifying employment skills and interests to develop short- and long-term career goals.

- Job training and preparation: assists individuals in developing skills, attitudes, interpersonal skills, work behaviors, and functional capacities to achieve identified employment goals.

- Job development and placement: identifies job opportunities, completes work site analysis, negotiates job accommodations, and assists the individuals in finding jobs and employers well-matched to their employment.

- Job coaching and support services: provides job training and coaching services to individuals placed into employment, to ensure long-term success on the job.

Provides mental health assessments on all child and adolescent referrals. After the needs are identified, the assessment specialist will recommend the program to fit the child's needs. If the child requires psychiatric medication in addition to primary health care, the family may choose to utilize the on-site family Nurse Practitioner who will be able to provide both services.

Provides property assessment, property value information, Homestead, Veteran and Family Farm Credit sign up.