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

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

Assists individuals and families that have an immediate need with a gas card to a local gas station when they are available.

Financial assistance for rent, mortgage, and utilities.

Emergency services to homeless and other individuals in need, including motel vouchers.

Food pantry.

Gas vouchers.

Prescription expense assistance.

Money management education.

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Mortgage Payment Assistance
Food Pantries
Homeless Shelter
Personal Financial Counseling
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP
Community Action Agencies
Services include assistance for homeless prevention and moving out of homelessness; basic needs assistance (rent and utilities); gas vouchers, car repairs, and other transportation assistance; and prescription assistance.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Medical Expense Assistance
Homelessness Prevention Programs

Assists families with a portion of heating utilities, burials, medical expenses, rent or mortgage payments, bus tokens, cab fare, or a one way bus ticket. Must meet qualification guidelines.

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Dental Care
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Relief
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical 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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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Transportation Expense Assistance
General Household Goods Provision
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Respite Care Subsidies
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Specialized Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Supported Employment
Benefits Screening
Prevocational Training
Provides financial assistance in meeting emergency needs for rent, utilities, food, clothing, medical, prescription, fuel, car repair, appliances, minor furnace repair, etc.

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Temporary Financial Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Transportation Expense Assistance
General Appliance Provision
Appliance Repair
Rent Payment Assistance
Furnaces
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers

Connects youth and families to resources and support. Navigators help "fill gaps" by helping agencies partner around a common goal or by utilizing flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Prevention reduces unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. Coordinates existing resources and matches participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Work Clothing
Case/Care Management
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Rental Deposit Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

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
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Benefits Screening
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Respite Care Subsidies
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Prevocational Training
General Household Goods Provision
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Supported Employment
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
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Administers the General Assistance Program for Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties to offer emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, food, burial/cremation, and prescription medications.

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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
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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Welfare to Work Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
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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Welfare to Work Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance
Job Search/Placement
Prejob Guidance
Provides emergency assistance for basic needs to county residence. Basic needs assistance includes rent and utility bill help, food, medical services (emergency dental extraction or prescriptions), transportation (fuel) and burial assistance (application must be made after death and before burial).

Program is for emergency needs that cannot be met by other means.

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Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance

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

Categories

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

Provides assistance to out-of-school youth who are overcoming barriers to employment that might include lacking skills to obtain high school diploma, high school equivalency certificate, low income, homelessness, involvement with the judicial system, transportation barriers.

Participants spend half their time in academic programming and half in learning skills in construction or urban agriculture, including building or rehabilitating housing for low-income families.

Leadership development involves classes, activities, and leadership positions within the organization, providing a foundation for preparing youth to play important roles in their communities.

Please attend the on-line orientation and fill out the on-line application or call.

Orientation Link:
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On the Job Training
Dropout Programs
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Discrimination Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
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.

Provides medical and financial assistance including: rent and rental deposit assistance, assisted living financial assistance with a written statement from physician indicating client is in need of that level of care. Medical care provided through the Primary Health Care Clinic or authorized by clinic physician. Bus passes at a reduced rate and personal hygiene vouchers. Burial (cremation) expenses.

Categories

Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
General Relief
Rental Deposit Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Offers crisis funding for those needing transportation assistance, rent, utilities, medicine and other bills to help families out in a crisis situation.

Categories

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

Offers emergency assistance for such things as utility bill shut off notices, eviction notices, and emergency gas or food.

Categories

Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers help to families caring for a child with a disability by providing financial assistance for items or services not covered by other programs. Contact an Intake and Referral Specialist with any questions as to whether an item/service is allowable. Examples include special adaptive devices, out-of-area travel expenses, nutritional supplements, respite care or educational seminars for caregivers, special camps and items to make your home safe or more accessible for your child.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Child Care Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance