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Provides out-of-home placement for a wide range of youth, including young victims of abuse and neglect, emergency short term care, and youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. The goals for the youth in care are either reunification with family, guardianship or adoption, or independent living. Care is delivered in private homes with specially trained foster parents. Foster Care Specialists are responsible for coordinating various services while youth are in care. If required, the agency will provide additional therapeutic support to both the biological family and foster family, as well as the youth in care.

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Therapeutic Foster Homes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Works in partnership with the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services to recruit and equip families to provide safe, caring, temporary care for a child while the birth family works towards reunification. Four Oaks serves all counties in Iowa.

Note: Inquiries about a specific child being placed in home should be made directly to HHS at (877) 364-1112.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Adoptive Family Recruitment

Provides services to all those who have adopted, placed a child for adoption, or been adopted through our agency. The services provided include, preparing an adoption history report of non-identifying information, conducting a full search to locate birth parents or adoptees, updating the file with locating information.

Works with families and children in need of a safe and stable home. Home studies, support for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, safety planning for families in crises, and life and parenting skills training are some of the services offered.

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Adoptive Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Provides information and assistance to grandparents (or other relatives) raising grandchildren.

Services may include

- Needs assessment for both the grandparent and the grandchild(ren).
- Assistance in accessing services needed by the grandparent for the child.
- Include everything from pharmaceutical assistance to school clothes and supplies.
- Referrals are made for the child to agencies providing services that may be needed by the child (e.g., tutoring, counseling, etc.).

Provides services for birth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted children.

Adoption Center's Programs:

-- Infant Adoption - The family will complete an adoption home study, become licensed as a foster parent and attend an adoption training. Adoptive families typically have an infant placement within 12-18 months. The Center requires potential adoptive parents to be at least 21-years-old. Families can come in all shapes and sizes and supports all potential parents in their dream of becoming a family.

-- International Adoption - The Center completes adoption home study services, foster home licensing services, and post placement visits for families pursuing international adoption.

The Center keeps extensive adoption records on file for children and families who completed adoptions through the agency. The adoption specialist is happy to assist an individual in locating information from his or her adoption file. There is a small fee for birth searches and fees are based on the time it takes to locate information.

Foster care and emergency foster care. Respite care for children in foster care or with natural parents. Home studies for prospective foster and relative placements for children.

Family Support / Community Treatment Aide helps parents create a healthy and positive home environment. Ensures proper care, safety and guidance of children, creates alternative support systems, and achieves self-sufficiency. Specialists usually meet with parent, youth or the entire family in their home, school or community setting to provide education, assistance, crisis intervention and support.

Parent Assist Service assists parents with 'at risk' youth by educating them on how to set rules, expectations and consequences and by providing them with information to additional resources.

Parent education classes.

Drug testing.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Home Based Parenting Education

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

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Long Term Care Options Counseling
Homemaker Assistance
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Home Delivered Meals
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Adult In Home Respite Care
Children's In Home Respite Care
Medicare Information/Counseling
Case/Care Management

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

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Long Term Care Options Counseling
Homemaker Assistance
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Home Delivered Meals
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Adult In Home Respite Care
Children's In Home Respite Care
Medicare Information/Counseling
Case/Care Management
Short- and long-term foster care provided to children of all ages in local licensed foster homes, including foster to adopt. Offers Child Welfare Case Management in the area of foster care of abused and neglected children.
Families First Counseling Services is a community mental health agency offering telemental health or office-based counseling, and behavioral and mental health services. Conjoint, family, and individual counseling settings are offered. Counseling topics include: abuse, adoption/foster care, aging, anger management, bereavement/grief, bullying, caregiver, death and dying, divorce, domestic violence, parenting, relationship, sexual orientation, and suicide issues. Additionally, counseling is offered for people dealing with mental health conditions such as anxiety disorders, Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder / ADD and ADHD, bipolar disorder, chronic/severe mental illness, depression, mood disorders, obsessive compulsive disorder, oppositional/defiant disorder, panic disorders, perinatal/postpartum depression, personality disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, psychiatric disorders, Reactive Attachment Disorder, schizophrenia, and self-injury. Supportive therapy includes play therapy.

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Group Counseling
Caregiver Counseling
Conjoint Counseling
Parent Counseling
Sexual Orientation Counseling
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Child Abuse Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Suicide Counseling
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Anger Management
Family Counseling
Divorce Counseling
General Counseling Services
Community Mental Health Agencies
Individual Counseling
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Provides domestic, embryo and international adoption services.
Support for parents and grandparents who are parenting their children/grandchildren. Also open to other family members who are raising children.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Recruitment, training and support of licensed and kinship/relative foster parents.

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

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Long Term Care Options Counseling
Homemaker Assistance
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Home Delivered Meals
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Adult In Home Respite Care
Children's In Home Respite Care
Medicare Information/Counseling
Case/Care Management
Provides one on one support, counseling, tools, and resources for caregivers of vulnerable adults. Includes support groups for grandparents and relatives raising children.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Caregiver Counseling
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Information and support to current and prospective foster and adoptive families, including mentoring, support groups, educational training and community referrals.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Pre- and post-adoption counseling, education, support and resources to ensure lifelong success for both children and their families. Provides direct services through home studies and post placement reports for families adopting through Holt or another licensed agency including domestic home studies and embryo adoption home studies.
Provides domestic, embryo and international adoption services.

Foster Care programs are designed to find safe, secure, and nurturing homes.

-- Relative Foster Care serves children who are placed in foster care with maternal or paternal relatives.

-- Fictive Kin Foster Care serves children who are placed with a non-relative, but the individual has personal or emotional ties with the child.

-- Traditional Foster Care serves children who are placed in non-relative, licensed foster homes.

-- Foster Family After Care serves children who have successfully returned home to their parents. It provides case management and counseling services in order to stabilize the newly reunited family. Services can continue for up to nine months.

Telephone support for grandparents/relatives raising grandchildren.

Support group offered through the Sioux City office.

Virtual Support groups are available.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Short- and long-term foster care provided to children of all ages in local licensed foster homes, including foster to adopt. Offers Child Welfare Case Management in the area of foster care of abused and neglected children.

Assists adoptive families with the process of adoption. Adoption specialists available to provide support and guidance before, during, and after adoptions.

Adoption programs:

-- Domestic Identified Adoption: Prospective adoptive families and birth parents connect with each other directly or through an intermediary. LCFS can provide guidance to the prospective adoptive families.

-- Interstate Adoption: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive families in Illinois who identify prospective birth parents in another state. LCFS can also assist prospective adoptive families living outside of Illinois who have located expectant parents living in Illinois who are considering an adoption plan.

-- Adopting Children in Care: LCFS can assist prospective adoptive parents who are interested in adopting youth in care who are waiting for adoptive families.

-- International (Home Study Only) Adoption: LCFS can complete a home study for Illinois prospective adoptive parents who are working with a Hague-accredited placing agency.

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

Categories

Long Term Care Options Counseling
Homemaker Assistance
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Home Delivered Meals
Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Adult In Home Respite Care
Children's In Home Respite Care
Medicare Information/Counseling
Case/Care Management