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Provides legal services in order to help with elder abuse. Services include helping with financial exploitation, guardianship of adults to ensure health care, nursing home and home care issues, powers of attorney and other advance directives, and SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

Offers home visits to seniors and their families informing them of programs that will enable seniors to remain as independent and living at home as long as possible. The senior information specialist assists with benefits applications, answers questions concerning Medicare, supplemental insurance, help at home, and more.

County level services provide direct emergency economic aid for vital necessities to veterans, their widow, and dependents, according to their needs; personal visits for assistance and claims to housebound veterans or dependents. Must have an honorable or under honorable conditions discharge from active duty or wartime service. Must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year and 6 months of that year in Saline County.

Ride to the VA Medical Clinics for medical appointments only. Some help with current bills for housing, food, and electrical, gas for the home, medical bills, and burials for the veterans and family members.

State level services (do not require wartime service) assist in completing applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund. Fee exempt fishing and hunting permits, applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes, and waivers of tuition.

Federal level services provide and/or complete Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

Provides information, assistance, and referrals to caregivers of older adults to help with necessary services and supports. Staff can also help the caregiver determine if the person they are caring for is receiving benefits they may be eligible for that could reduce the caregiver's costs.

Offers Thanksgiving dinners to individuals in need who do not have a place to go and would like to spend time with others within the community. No reservations are required to attend the dinner.

Offers workshops that teach individuals and families how to get more out of money and how to save money for financial goals. This is a series of workshops that are a blend of instruction and hands on activities so each concept can be mastered. 

Provides donated clothing at a low cost to individuals.

Clothing vouchers are available for those who are unable to purchase clothing.

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) assists low-income homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their primary heating costs for the winter heating season. Also encourages households to make regular utility payments, to promote energy awareness and to encourage reduction of energy usage. All customers applying for this prgram will simultaneously be making an application for weatherization assistance as required by state law. Assistance is based on household income. size, type of fuel, and type of housing. Applications accepted October 1-April 30 for the elderly and disabled households and November 1-April 30 for the rest of the households.

Offers the education and support families need so every child is equipped for kindergarten through Early Childhood Education.

Provides early childhood education services (childcare and Pre-K), with a focus on the development of emotional and social skills and school readiness. Services are available at two sites.

Offers a food pantry. Also operates the Commodities Supplemental Food Program.

Offers a book giving program that mails free books to children from birth to age five. To help increase literacy skills, encourage school readiness, and engage children in one of the most fundamental skills necessary to succeed in life – Reading!

The books will arrive about 8-10 weeks after registration has been approved.

Provides rehabilitation services to help individuals recover, maintain, or improve abilities that have been lost due to illness, injury, surgery, or chronic health conditions. Services include athletic training, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech therapy. 

Provides help to participants to recognize and understand their abusive behaviors and refrain from engaging them. Through education and support, individuals who have committed acts of domestic violence are taught alternative methods of communicating with their partners and begin to build relationships that allow for open respectful communication and trust.

Classes are offered in Spanish and English, in a group setting.

Testing for Chlamydia and Gonorrhea.

Treatment for Chlamydia.

Referral for Gonorrhea treatment.

Offers monetary support to persons who have emergency financial needs. DFA provides a systematic way to verify needs and provides a central location for persons seeking emergency financial assistance for water and power. Also works with energy assistance foundations to distribute the funding through the "Warm Neighbors, Cool Friends Program," which assists persons with payment of their summer and winter power bills.

Strength-based, in-home and community-based program designed to reduce youth and family risk that contributes to delinquent behavior while increasing youth and family protective factors. Family Consultants work with families to enhance and improve youth and family functioning in the home and community while preventing the need for youth to be detained or referred to an out-of-home setting. Each family has an individualized service plan developed to include youth and family-driven goals that address the emotional, behavioral, social and educational needs of at-risk youth and families. The services provided strongly focus on family engagement, initial and ongoing assessment, individualized interventions, and case closure planning for long-term outcomes.

This program integrates parent training and intensive in-home family work and case management. Boys Town Family Consultants are available 24/7 and work with families in their homes, communities and schools. This service is designed to implement focused interventions and cognitive behavioral techniques to enhance youth skill development, such as social skills, problem-solving skills, and anger management skills. Family Consultants work with parents on evidence-based, behaviorally-oriented parenting practices to improve family functioning and stability within the home. Services provided to the youth and family include: teaching cognitive behavioral techniques and skills that promote self-sufficiency, developing problem-solving skills, practicing new skills and developing skills to help open lines of communication within the family and its support network (schools, relatives, friends).

Aims to provide encouragement, hope, and healing to those facing challenging circumstances and would like direction.

Offers different support groups for a variety of topics, including:

- Depression and anxiety (Bright Hope and Stronger)

- Single motherhood (Embrace Grace)

- Divorce (Divorce Care)

- Grief and loss (Grief Share and Oasis)

- Sexual abuse and assault (Restored)

- Pornography and sexual addiction (Compass and L.I.F.E.)