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When funding allows, may be able to help with limited financial assistance for basic needs such as childcare payments, rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, car repairs, transportation, prescription costs, etc., through the Community Services Block Grant. Eligibility requirements will apply, and ongoing case management will be required. Contact your local County Outreach Office for more information.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Child Care Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Personal/Grooming Needs
Medical Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Food Vouchers

Provides the following emergency financial assistance when available, rent and mortgage assistance, utility assistance (electric, gas, or water), clothing vouchers, bus token assistance.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Clothing Vouchers

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. The goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Rental Deposit Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Work Clothing
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Case/Care Management
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Provides a confidential, 24/7 crisis intervention for runaway and homeless youth and their families via phone, chat, email, text, and bulletin board. Referrals, conference calling with a parent upon youth's request, conflict mediation, and information hotline. Free bus tickets home to family or shelter for qualified youth ages 12-21. Call or text 1-800-RUNAWAY (786-2929) or visit www.1800runaway.org

HOME FREE PROGRAM: In partnership with Greyhound Lines, Inc., NRS helps reunite qualified runaway youth ages 12-21 with their families, or alternate living arrangement through a free bus ticket home. Youth must call 1-800-RUNAWAY (786-2929) to start the process.

Let's Talk: Runaway Prevention Curriculum:

A free 14-module, interactive prevention curriculum that is available in English and Spanish. This evidence-based tool builds life skills; increases knowledge about available resources; educates about alternatives to running away; and empowers youth to access and seek help from trusted community members.

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Internet Based Crisis Intervention
Homeless Family Reunification Services
Transportation Expense Assistance
Runaway/Homeless Youth Helplines
Assists SNAP participants in finding employment and/or training for employment. Provides gas vouchers and other supportive services for independent job search, to attend job search training, vocational training and for job retention.

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Prejob Guidance
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Transportation Expense Assistance

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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Respite Care Subsidies
Rent Payment Assistance
General Household Goods Provision
Specialized Information and Referral
Prevocational Training
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Benefits Screening
Supported Employment
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers emergency financial assistance once per year to anyone in need. Assistance may be given in the areas of rental assistance, disaster relief, gasoline, utility (water/sewage/trash only), and uniforms assistance.

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Disaster Related Cash Grants
Transportation Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers emergency financial assistance once per year to anyone in need. Assistance may be given in the areas of rental assistance, disaster relief, gasoline, utility (water/sewage/trash only), and uniforms assistance.

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Disaster Related Cash Grants
Transportation Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers temporary one-time assistance by providing food vouchers, gasoline vouchers, and assistance with rent, mortgage, and utility bills through direct pay to the vendor, landlord, or bank. Furniture and clothing vouchers for their West Chicago and Geneva stores can also be made available.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Household Goods Vouchers
Food Vouchers

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Categories

Home Barrier Removal Grants
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Transportation Expense Assistance
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Respite Care Subsidies
Specialized Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Supported Employment
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Benefits Screening
Prevocational Training
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Bus service within the City of Lincoln.

Senior and disability transportation in coordination with the League of Human Dignity. Services include wheelchair accessibility on the regular route service, Handi-Van, and a reduced bus fare with a Senior Citizen Identification card or a Go For Less card.

Bus passes for those whose income is under 200% of poverty guidelines, call 476-1234 to find out if you qualify for the low income program or visit website for more information.

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Transportation Passes
Local Bus Services
Disability Related Transportation
Travelers Aid may help with a voucher from the Salvation Army (when funds are available) for a tank of gas if person is on the highway outside Omaha city limits.
Salvation Army may be able to assist with emergency food, fuel, shelter (vouchers); assistance with utility bills sometimes available; must have children in the home. Gas vouchers for medical appointments or getting to and from work may be available. All services dependent on available funding.

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Gas Money
Homeless Motel Vouchers
Gas Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Heating Fuel Payment Assistance
Electric Service Payment Assistance

Program focused on removing transportation barriers for victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.

Provides a one-way trip to a safe house or program facility. The program's transports are limited, available to single mothers fleeing an abusive relationship or survivors of human trafficking seeking refuge.

Individuals in need of transport services must complete an application or have an agency they're working with submit an application. Once the application is submitted the client/agency will receive an email outlining the next steps.

More information is available on the program's website.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Food and Gas vouchers.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Offers crisis funding for those needing transportation assistance, rent, utilities, medicine and other bills to help families out in a crisis situation.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran's aid. Services include support with emergency funding when available, food vouchers for purchasing groceries, transportation expense assistance for fuel expense and utility service payment assistance to prevent or address utility shutoffs. Additional services include access to low-cost or hard-to-obtain prescription medications, general relief for indigent individuals, and guidance on Veteran burial benefits, including burial in national cemeteries, headstones, markers, and burial flags.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Transportation Expense Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
General Relief
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

Categories

Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Provides bus tickets for children of Moline Township residents who are in financial need of transportation to and from school.

Details and Application available on the website; contact the Township Office for the Spanish version of the application.

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Transportation Passes
Transportation Expense Assistance

Provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.

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Food Vouchers
Diapers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance

Rent assistance.

Utility payment assistance.

Gas vouchers are available for doctor appointments and job interviews.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance

Offers Housing services, including rent and utilities. Also offers a food pantry, gas vouchers for medical appointments only, and prescription assistance.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Food Pantries
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Community Action Agencies
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Offers income-based program which provides IDs for free bus fares. Passengers who qualify for free fares must present proof of free fare eligibility when riding the bus.

Provides emergency financial assistance for low-income individuals and families in Macon County. Assistance covers basic needs such as rent, prescription payment costs, and emergency shelter vouchers for those who are homeless and needing a place to stay,

Also offers financial support for the following on a case-by-case basis water bills, state issued IDs and birth certificates, GED testing fees, gas for out-of-town doctor appointments, bus cards and tokens, diapers and baby formula, and assistance with work-related items.

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Records/Licenses/Permits Fee Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Diapers
Prescription Medication Services
Formula/Baby Food
Homeless Motel Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance