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Offers Health and Safety classes. Services include First Aid, Adult, Child and Infant CPR, Babysitting, Pet First Aid, Life Guarding, Water Safety and the Annual Learn to Swim Program. Provide First Aid Stations for selected activities throughout the state of Iowa. Facilitates the sale of and provide training for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). HEALTH EDUCATION provides educational talks and demonstrations on HIV/AIDS, Your Heart Matters, Workplace Violence Awareness, Protect Your Back, Ergonomics, Managing Stress, Avian Flu 101, HIV/AIDS, and Slips Trips and Falls.

Offers a variety of health education programs on topics including smoking cessation, poison control, overdose prevention, lowering cholesterol, and cardiac risk assessment.

Nutrition education to adults and youth of limited resources about healthy eating and food resources to improve food resource management skills. The program offers lessons in the areas of diet quality, food safety, and food resource management individually or in small groups.

Provides HIV/AIDS prevention, testing, diagnosis and treatment through infectious disease and other healthcare services. Services include HIV testing and treatment, as well as HIV prevention medications such as PrEP and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).

Focuses on improving the nutrition, food safety, and physical activity of Nebraska's youth and adults. Includes diabetes education.

Provides information on Parkinson's disease, including its causes, symptoms, treatment options, and therapeutic activities to do at home. Also offers resources and insights to foster understanding and awareness about living with Parkinson's disease, promoting positive communication and interaction with individuals affected by the condition. 

Provides education about disordered eating and changes cultural narratives regarding food, bodies, exercise, weight, and health. Website offers many valuable tools and the board responds to questions/inquiries from those with questions.

Nutrition education to adults and youth of limited resources about healthy eating and food resources to improve food resource management skills. The program offers lessons in the areas of diet quality, food safety, and food resource management individually or in small groups.

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Provides information on Parkinson's disease, including its causes, symptoms, treatment options, and therapeutic activities to do at home. Also offers resources and insights to foster understanding and awareness about living with Parkinson's disease, promoting positive communication and interaction with individuals affected by the condition. 

Provides brain injury information, resources, advocacy, and support groups.

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Provides education to increase the public’s awareness and knowledge of various life skills which improve health outcomes and prevent the spread of infectious diseases. This program provides preschool children through the adult population education which emphasizes health concerns appropriate to the age of the audience.

Addresses major factors in ill health such as Smoking and tobacco use, Substance abuse, Nutrition, STDs, HIV, abstinence, and sexuality education.

Nutrition education to adults and youth of limited resources about healthy eating and food resources to improve food resource management skills. The program offers lessons in the areas of diet quality, food safety, and food resource management individually or in small groups.

Provides public health services and emergency preparedness. Disease surveillance (responsibility shared with NHHSS) a. School surveillance - absenteeism counts are collected weekly b. West Nile Virus - dead bird collection and testing and mosquito trapping and testing c. Rabies monitoring in animals and investigate potential human exposures d. Other community health threats, as needed: mold, pertussis, food-borne illness Scrubby Bear, an American Red Cross program that teaches proper hand-washing techniques to children in preschool through third grade. Vaccinations for children.

Offers help to individuals with dyslexia, their families and the communities that support them. The goal is to provide the most comprehensive forum for parents, educators, and researchers to share their experiences, methods, and knowledge. Referrals to diagnosis, tutoring and schooling.

Services offered include:

- Emergency preparedness;

- Health Promotion Education;

- Preventative dental services;

- Health Classes and Workshops (including Living Well With Chronic Disease, Diabetes Prevention Program, Stepping On, Tai Chi, Question Persuade Refer Suicide Prevention Training, and more);

- Public Health Nursing and Community Health Workers;

- Medicaid Application Assistance;

- Patient Navigation;

- Family Support Services and Home Visitation;

- Car Seat Fitting Stations (by appointment);

- Bike Safety Events and Helmet Fittings;

- Medication Assistance;

- Environmental Services;

- Disease investigation of food poisoning, influenza, rabies and West Nile virus;

- Tobacco Cessation Programs (Beat the Pack or Freedom From Smoking, also local information sessions).