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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 entrepreneurial development services such as business training, counseling, and resource partner referrals to service members, veterans, National Guard and Reserve members, military spouses, and family members interested in starting or growing a small business. The program is funded by Small Business Administration.

DCFS has the primary responsibility of protecting children and strengthening families through the investigation and intervention of suspected child abuse or neglect by parents and other caregivers.

DCFS links families with community services to address struggles families are having, offers preventative services to referred families in an attempt to keep family units together to address findings of abuse/neglect, and works with families who have children under the legal custody of DCFS while working to reunify families when possible or provide a permanent home for children.

As part of its duties, DCFS also licenses and monitors all Illinois child welfare agencies, child care agencies, domestic and international adoption providers, and group homes in the state.

Provides a structured residential environment for eligible male and female individuals. The program typically lasts approximately four months, with a maximum legal placement period of one year.

Provides health care and specialty health care services, including mental health care. Can also provide family and internal medicine services.

Assists adults and youth who are in a crisis, such as those who are suicidal, homicidal, and/or psychotic.

- All crisis calls are screened to assess the severity of the problem. If a Crisis Responder identifies the problem as severe, the responder will contact the Licensed Mental Health Therapist on call to request a crisis assessment be conducted face to face.

- Designed to prevent hospitalizations and Emergency Protective Custody.

Provides police and dispatch services responsible for emergency assessment and response. 

The health department is constantly monitoring school absences in an attempt to determine a food borne outbreak or a disease outbreak. The health department is also required to have drills annually to see how quickly they could dispense medications to the population should a bioterrorist event or pandemic influenza occur.

The health department currently monitors what is happening in the world regarding different disease outbreaks.

Offers fitness classes, child watch, family and teen programs, swimming lessons, free weights, group cycling, strength/cardiovascular equipment, racquetball courts, a gymnasium, running track and swimming pool.

Educational information offered related to disaster preparedness and recovery, beef cattle production, and cropping and water systems.

Serves low-income pregnant, breast-feeding, and postpartum women, and infants and children to age 5 who are determined to be at nutritional risk. All participants receive nutrition education and counseling, supplemental foods, and information about other health services based on assessment findings.

Offers, as resources allow, to help refugees and asylees reach economic self-sufficiency and to them with any problems, interests and concerns they may have. The Bureau of Refugee Services works to serve as a central clearinghouse in order to refer refugees and asylees to any resource necessary and available to them. The Bureau is the service agency for all refugees enrolled in FIP, the state welfare reform program. Now offering a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) program. This program will help participants prepare for the class, enroll into the DMACC CDL program at no cost, and obtain a job after completion. Participants will also qualify for “Jump Start” training specially designed to help English Language Learners.

Offers a program for parents and youth individuals ages 10-14 to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.