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Serves all Nebraska adoptive families - international, domestic infant, private, step-parent and foster adoptive families. Advocates for the special interests of adoptive families and connects families to one another. Six core services include Permanency Support Services, Respite Care Connections, Parent2Parent Network, Mental Health Connections, Training, and Support Groups and Family Activities.

Case management available for up to 180 days. Individualized family plan designed and implemented with the family's input.

Assists post adoptive and guardianship families in locating formal and informal respite providers and can provide financial assistance for respite services (limited). All families who receive financial respite assistance through the program will be asked to attend a training.

Mentoring in partnership with Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA) to assist in providing peer mentoring services to post adoptive and guardianship families.

Mental health services - locates and refers families to professional post adoption and guardianship providers.

Training opportunities that can support skill building on issues related to adoption.

Support groups and networks for families and youth where social networks can be created and peer support can be achieved.

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Respite Care Subsidies
Adoption Services
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Case/Care Management
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Northeast Iowa Behavioral Health is a community mental health agency offering individual counseling and tele-health counseling settings. This organization provides services for clients with: AIDS/HIV, alzheimer's disease/dementia, anxiety disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder/ADD and ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, blindness, brain injuries, cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic/severe mental illness, chronic pain, co-occurring/mental health and substance use, deaf/hard of hearing, depression, developmental disabilities, diabetes, heart disease, learning disabilities, mood disorders, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD, oppositional/defiant disorder, panic disorders, parkinson's disease, perinatal/postpartum depression, personality disorders, physical disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder/PTSD, pregnancy/birth, reactive attachment disorder, schizophrenia, self-injury, and tourette's syndrome. Counseling topics include: abuse issues, adoption/foster care issues, aging issues, anger management issues, bereavement/grief issues, bullying issues, caregiver issues, cultural transition issues, death and dying issues, divorce issues, domestic violence issues, family planning issues, gambling addiction issues, gender identity issues, hoarding issues, human trafficking issues, internet addiction issues, juvenile delinquency, overspending issues, parenting issues, pre-marriage/marriage/divorce issues, relationship issues, reproductive issues, sexual/love addiction, sexual assault issues, sexual orientation issues, sexuality issues, spiritual/religious issues, suicide issues, terminal illness, and weight related issues. Therapy and supportive approaches service include: art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization/reprocessing (EMDR), peer counseling, play therapy, and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

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Cultural Transition Counseling
Geriatric Counseling
Caregiver Counseling
Divorce Counseling
Peer Counseling
Sexual Assault Counseling
Internet Addiction Counseling
Individual Counseling
Sexuality Counseling
Hoarding Counseling Programs
Adult Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Counseling
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Sexual/Love Addiction Counseling
Sexual Orientation Counseling
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Parent Abuse Counseling
Overspender Counseling
Anger Management
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
General Counseling Services
Telemental Health
Child Abuse Counseling
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Spiritual/Religious Issues Counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Child Sexual Abuse Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Terminal Illness Counseling
Gender Identity Counseling
Human Trafficking Counseling
Gambling Disorder Counseling
Elder Abuse Counseling
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Play Therapy
Premarital Counseling
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Parent Counseling
Suicide Counseling
Marriage and Relationships Counseling
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Community Mental Health Agencies

Serves families interested in adopting a legally free child.

Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include:

-- Counseling young women who are pregnant.

-- Adoption orientations.

-- Adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions.

-- Post-placement supervision.

-- Finalization services.

-- Ongoing support groups.

-- Adoption searches.

Provides adoption services that include, home studies for adoptions and foster licensing, direct hospital placement adoptions, adoption seminars, support groups during adoption waiting period and adoption support for birth parents.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Adoption Services
Provides domestic, embryo and international adoption services.

Offers adoption services for families. Services may also include adoptive families who already have a prospective match or may have already received a placement of a child on their own. Once the family has made a decision the agency may assist in networking, or they may independently search on their own to locate a prospective match.

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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Conjoint Counseling
Group Counseling
Anger Management
Divorce Counseling
Caregiver Counseling
Family Counseling
Community Mental Health Agencies
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
General Counseling Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Child Abuse Counseling
Parent Counseling
Individual Counseling
Suicide Counseling
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Sexual Orientation Counseling
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Northeast Iowa Behavioral Health is a community mental health agency offering individual counseling and tele-health counseling settings. This organization provides services for clients with: AIDS/HIV, alzheimer's disease/dementia, anxiety disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder/ADD and ADHD, autism spectrum disorder, bipolar disorder, blindness, brain injuries, cancer, cerebral palsy, chronic/severe mental illness, chronic pain, co-occurring/mental health and substance use, deaf/hard of hearing, depression, developmental disabilities, diabetes, heart disease, learning disabilities, mood disorders, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, obsessive compulsive disorder/OCD, oppositional/defiant disorder, panic disorders, parkinson's disease, perinatal/postpartum depression, personality disorders, physical disabilities, post-traumatic stress disorder/PTSD, pregnancy/birth, reactive attachment disorder, schizophrenia, self-injury, and tourette's syndrome. Counseling topics include: abuse issues, adoption/foster care issues, aging issues, anger management issues, bereavement/grief issues, bullying issues, caregiver issues, cultural transition issues, death and dying issues, divorce issues, domestic violence issues, family planning issues, gambling addiction issues, gender identity issues, hoarding issues, human trafficking issues, internet addiction issues, juvenile delinquency, overspending issues, parenting issues, pre-marriage/marriage/divorce issues, relationship issues, reproductive issues, sexual/love addiction, sexual assault issues, sexual orientation issues, sexuality issues, spiritual/religious issues, suicide issues, terminal illness, and weight related issues. Therapy and supportive approaches service include: art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization/reprocessing (EMDR), peer counseling, play therapy, and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Categories

Cultural Transition Counseling
Geriatric Counseling
Caregiver Counseling
Divorce Counseling
Peer Counseling
Sexual Assault Counseling
Internet Addiction Counseling
Individual Counseling
Sexuality Counseling
Hoarding Counseling Programs
Adult Child Sexual Abuse Survivor Counseling
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Preadoption Counseling and Support
Postadoption Counseling and Support
Sexual/Love Addiction Counseling
Sexual Orientation Counseling
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Parent Abuse Counseling
Overspender Counseling
Anger Management
Adolescent/Youth Counseling
General Counseling Services
Telemental Health
Child Abuse Counseling
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Spiritual/Religious Issues Counseling
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Child Sexual Abuse Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Terminal Illness Counseling
Gender Identity Counseling
Human Trafficking Counseling
Gambling Disorder Counseling
Elder Abuse Counseling
Dialectical Behavior Therapy
Play Therapy
Premarital Counseling
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Parent Counseling
Suicide Counseling
Marriage and Relationships Counseling
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Community Mental Health Agencies

Services are designed to support and strengthen the lives of adoptive parents, adult adopted persons, and birth parents by providing compassionate profiles, searches, and intermediary services.

Services include:

-- Individual and Family Counseling by request from anyone involved in an adoption plan made through Catholic Charities at any time.

-- Mutual consent registry.

-- Background histories and non-identifying profiles.

-- Post adoption search and intermediary service in the form of indirect and direct contact between interested parties.

Program allows any adult member who is adopted to gain knowledge about the other parties such as non-identifying medical information or contact information. In cases where members of an adoption group mutually agree to be reunited, Catholic Charities' staff provides counseling to assist the individuals to be emotionally prepared themselves.

Offers expectant parent advocacy that includes help and support for anyone who is pregnant, domestic adoptions and post-adoption services that includes counseling for children who have experienced trauma.

Provides domestic, embryo and international adoption services.

Provides services to couples and singles in all three programs:

- Agency Assisted Adoption: Includes home study and collaborating with another agency to place through the partnering agency.

- General Domestic Adoption Program: Includes home study and placement of infants, also offer the Sayers Center program which seeks to find homes for African American babies and promote adoption awareness within the African American community.

- Intercountry Program: Includes home study and working with another agency internationally.

Provides guidance and support during periods of match and placement. Conducts post placement visits and reporting in accordance with the placing state or country's requirements.

Assists adoptees on their search for their birth family. Adoptee search group provides support, advice, and help using traditional search and genetic genealogy to locate birth family.

Categories

Adoption Services

Serves all Nebraska adoptive families - international, domestic infant, private, step-parent and foster adoptive families. Advocates for the special interests of adoptive families and connects families to one another. Six core services include Permanency Support Services, Respite Care Connections, Parent2Parent Network, Mental Health Connections, Training, and Support Groups and Family Activities.

Case management available for up to 180 days. Individualized family plan designed and implemented with the family's input.

Assists post adoptive and guardianship families in locating formal and informal respite providers and can provide financial assistance for respite services (limited). All families who receive financial respite assistance through the program will be asked to attend a training.

Mentoring in partnership with Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA) to assist in providing peer mentoring services to post adoptive and guardianship families.

Mental health services - locates and refers families to professional post adoption and guardianship providers.

Training opportunities that can support skill building on issues related to adoption.

Support groups and networks for families and youth where social networks can be created and peer support can be achieved.

Categories

Respite Care Subsidies
Adoption Services
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Case/Care Management
Children's Out of Home Respite Care

Provides a foster care program in Southern Illinois for children ages 21 and under. Services include monthly training and support, inclusion with child and family team meetings and care training.

Serves families interested in adopting a legally free child.

Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include:

-- Counseling young women who are pregnant.

-- Adoption orientations.

-- Adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions.

-- Post-placement supervision.

-- Finalization services.

-- Ongoing support groups.

-- Adoption searches.

- Adoption: Offers relative and non-relative, second parent, stepparent, adult, and DCFS foster parent adoption services.

- Post Adoption: Families are connected with resources meant to aid in adoption preservation.

- Legal Custody: Helps to provide legal custody to caregivers, whether for a child or disabled adult.

- Guardianship: Helps to provide legal guardianship, which allows the caregiver to make decisions for the child in their care.

Categories

Adoption Services
Adoption Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Provides domestic, embryo and international adoption services.

Offers to support families with obtaining adoption.

Serves families interested in adopting a legally free child.

Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include:

-- Counseling young women who are pregnant.

-- Adoption orientations.

-- Adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions.

-- Post-placement supervision.

-- Finalization services.

-- Ongoing support groups.

-- Adoption searches.

Provides a licensed child placing agency, finding adoptive homes for both infants and special needs children.

Serves families interested in adopting a legally free child.

Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include:

-- Counseling young women who are pregnant.

-- Adoption orientations.

-- Adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions.

-- Post-placement supervision.

-- Finalization services.

-- Ongoing support groups.

-- Adoption searches.

Provides consultation, information and referral services at all stages of the adoption process, and placement services for prospective adoptive families.

We serve Expecting families looking to place a child for adoption, including from unplanned pregnancies or older children, prospective foster families, families looking to adopt children, including international adoptions and children with special needs and families that have already adopted children.