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Provides supports and services for families to help their children meet developmental milestones.

Children's Services are provided to people under the age of 21. Supports may include residential services, supported/intermittent, host home, day services, transitional services, special education or early intervention.

Children's Extensive Services focus on supporting families by providing respite care and community connector services to children living within their family home.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Group Homes for Children and Youth With Disabilities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Special Education

Collects information to identify and refer children with health problems to the High-Risk Infant Follow-up that will ensure the healthy development of infants born with a high-risk medical condition.

Early intervention for children ages birth to three who are experiencing any developmental delay or have high medical needs.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Assists families with children, birth to three years, with disabilities or special needs to access community services. Families are linked with developmental evaluations through the schools, Nebraska Health and Human Services programs, health resources, parent-to-parent support, and other supports and services as identified by the families' priorities.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
The Early ACCESS program for children birth to age 3 provides evaluations to identify children with special needs. Children ages birth to 3 years old with special needs are connected to early intervention services. In addition, Early Childhood Special Education services are available for children ages 3 to 5 who are identified as needing special education services.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Identification Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Community Circle of Care (CCC) is a regional System of Care program providing care coordination for community-based services and supports to non-Medicaid children and youth with serious behavioral or mental health needs in northeast Iowa. CCC serves children and youth up to 21 years old. The CCC program provides wraparound services to ensure that youth and families are connected to: assessment and diagnosis, care coordination, and social supports.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support

A free statewide, central point of contact and directory for children with disabilities and specialized needs, their families, their service providers and other members of the community. Also connects families to family support services and parent education groups. IFSN provides information and referrals to community-based services through a website, an online searchable resource directory and a toll-free telephone service.

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Disability Related Parenting Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Works with children ages 0-3 who have a disability in their natural environments at no cost to families. Service coordination for speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy, deaf education, and early childhood special education. Assistance in navigating resources.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Community Circle of Care (CCC) is a regional System of Care program providing care coordination for community-based services and supports to non-Medicaid children and youth with serious behavioral or mental health needs in northeast Iowa. CCC serves children and youth up to 21 years old. The CCC program provides wraparound services to ensure that youth and families are connected to: assessment and diagnosis, care coordination, and social supports.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support

Works with primary care providers who identify social/emotional or developmental concerns, family stressors, or caregiver depression during well child medical exams. If a condition is identified, the family is referred to a support specialist who provides care coordination. Specialists may provide referrals for developmental screening, mental health or behavioral health services, or other needs, and will monitor the family's progress.

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Mental Health Evaluation
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Provides supports and services for families to help their children meet developmental milestones.

Assists individuals in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration. Programming is coordinated on-site and in the community to enhance opportunities to learn in a variety of environments. Day Habilitation services are designed to assist young adults to successfully transition to adulthood by increasing community integration and life skills.

In Ames, Day Habilitation is only offered in the summer.
In Johnston, Day Habilitation is offered year-round.

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Inpatient Rehabilitation
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Audiological Evaluations
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Speech Therapy
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Intermediate Care Facilities for Individuals With Developmental Disabilities
The Autism Care for Toddlers (ACT) Clinics are community outreach programs. The clinics provide early intervention services using applied behavior analysis (ABA), which is a research-supported treatment for autism spectrum disorders. The clinics offer one-on-one services for toddlers with autism and a caregiver-training program.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Autism Therapy
Early Development Network service coordination, a free service for families and children ages birth to three who have developmental delays, difficulties with speech and language, health issues, fine and gross motor difficulties, behavior issues, need to access community resources, and other concerns.

Provides a wide variety of services to member schools, including professional development opportunities, digital learning and internet services, and student supports for individuals with special needs.

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School Districts
Special Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Early Childhood Education

Preschool and Head Start program.

Service coordination and home visitation program.

Developmental testing, speech and language pathologist, occupational and physical therapists, and vision and hearing consultants.

Parent support groups.

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Parent Support Groups
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Special Education
Early Childhood Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment

Provides education support to children that display significant delays in motor development, speech/language development, cognitive development, and/or social emotional development. Services are provided in a classroom environment and include literacy, math, science, social studies, arts, and technology while supporting social/emotional development.

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Early Childhood Education
Special Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
The School District Office provides the administration of the public school services for all students in the school district. Services include: Child-find services which assess pre-school children to identify any developmental concerns as well as the child's readiness for kindergarten, Early intervention services for pre-school children (beginning at 3 years old) with identified developmental delays providing special preschool services, therapies, or other needed supports for the child, Creating with the parents an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for children with special education needs and ensuring that the services required by the plan are provided for the student, and Student counseling services, including counseling and guidance for all students in the district in the areas of personal, social academic, and career concerns. The school district also provides a Homeless Liaison, who coordinates the necessary services and support for any student in the district who is homeless (this includes providing transportation to and from school as well as other support that may be needed by the student).

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Early Identification Programs
Student Counseling Services
School Districts
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Homeless School Transition Programs

Provides a wide variety of services to member schools, including professional development opportunities, digital learning and internet services, and student supports for individuals with special needs.

The Early Development Network service coordination is a free service for families and children ages birth to three who have developmental delays, difficulties with speech and language, health issues, fine and gross motor difficulties, behavior issues, need to access community resources, and other concerns.

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Special Education
Early Childhood Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
School Districts
The School District Office provides the administration of the public school services for all students in the school district. Services include: Child-find services which assess pre-school children to identify any developmental concerns as well as the child's readiness for kindergarten, Early intervention services for pre-school children (beginning at 3 years old) with identified developmental delays providing special preschool services, therapies, or other needed supports for the child, Creating with the parents an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for children with special education needs and ensuring that the services required by the plan are provided for the student, and Student counseling services, including counseling and guidance for all students in the district in the areas of personal, social academic, and career concerns. The school district also provides a Homeless Liaison, who coordinates the necessary services and support for any student in the district who is homeless (this includes providing transportation to and from school as well as other support that may be needed by the student).

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Student Counseling Services
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Homeless School Transition Programs
Early Identification Programs
School Districts
Helps families of children with special needs below age three obtain services to meet these needs: developmental, educational, financial, health care, child care, respite care, and others. The Services Coordinators work with multiple providers to link parents with needed services. The goal is to help empower parents to become coordinators of services for their own children in the future.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Captures information to identify and refer children with health problems to the High Risk Infant Follow-up that will ensure the healthy development of infants born with a high-risk medical condition.

Provides service coordination, nutrition services, and health assessments for children 0-3 years old enrolled in Early ACCESS (Early intervention for infants and toddlers).

Works with primary care providers who identify social/emotional or developmental concerns, family stressors, or caregiver depression during well child medical exams. If a condition is identified, the family is referred to a support specialist who provides care coordination. Specialists may provide referrals for developmental screening, mental health or behavioral health services, or other needs, and will monitor the family's progress.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Mental Health Evaluation
The School District Office provides the administration of the public school services for all students in the school district. Services include: Child-find services which assess pre-school children to identify any developmental concerns as well as the child's readiness for kindergarten; Early intervention services for pre-school children (beginning at 3 years old) with identified developmental delays providing special preschool services, therapies, or other needed supports for the child; Creating, with the parents, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for children with special education needs and ensuring that the services required by the plan are provided for the student; and Student counseling services, including counseling and guidance for all students in the district in the areas of personal, social academic, and career concerns. The school district also provides a Homeless Liaison, who coordinates the necessary services and support for any student in the district who is homeless (this includes providing transportation to and from school as well as other support that may be needed by the student).

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Homeless School Transition Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Early Identification Programs
Student Counseling Services
School Districts