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Provides Community Health Workers (CHWs) who partner with community agencies to help individuals living with chronic health conditions within underserved communities. CHWs assist clients in overcoming barriers to health, social services, education, and employment through client visits and community engagement.

Services include:

-- Meets with individuals where they are to better understand the challenges they are facing

-- Shares information with primary care team about client lived experiences

-- Helps individuals understand their healthcare team's plan of care

-- Helps individuals connect with community services

-- Assists clients with navigating systems to get the care they need

-- Assists clients with overcoming barriers to improve their health and wellness

-- Conducts home visits

-- Provides client education to improve health and wellness

-- Performs health and wellness activities in group sessions, health fairs, clinics, and other community settings

Provides basic necessities and help those in crisis find the path to self-sufficiency.

Provides guidance, case management, referral, and advocacy.

When available, food, clothing and household vouchers, and rent and utility assistance may be offered. Does not provide assistance with security deposits.

Categories

Clothing Vouchers
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Utility Service Payment Assistance
General Household Goods Provision
Rent Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Case/Care Management

Traditional Foster Care for children ages 0-18 whose families are unable or unwilling to meet the minimum standards of parents as defined by the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).

Specialized Foster Care provides intensive services to behaviorally challenged children ages 3-18. Relative Foster Care allows children who need to be placed out of their home to be placed with relatives.

Aftercare Program is specially designed to assist children and their families upon their return home from living with a foster family.

Other services include foster parent recruitment, adoption conversions.

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Foster Homes for Dependent Children
Foster Home Placement
Case/Care Management
Intensive Family Reunification Services
Foster Parent/Family Recruitment

Provides a coordinated care network consisting of healthcare, government, nonprofit, and other organizations.

Provides a coordinated care network consisting of healthcare, government, nonprofit, and other organizations.

Offers 24-hour intakes by phone at the local number and the state hotline. A caseworker will make a home visit to investigate any allegations of abuse and assist the victim. Interventions will be offered to the victim and referrals made to the appropriate organizations. Interventions can include but are not limited to in-home services, legal, medical, relocation, and counseling.

Investigates allegations of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults age 60 and older and persons with disabilities (ages 18-59) who live in domestic (non-institutional) setting. Appointed by the Illinois Department on Aging to investigate allegations of physical and emotional abuse, financial exploitation, confinement/neglect, deprivation of food or medication, sexual abuse, and self-neglect

Assists individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and developmental disabilities in accessing needed services and supports. Coordinators provide information, referral, assess individuals for needs, develop a treatment plan, and coordinate funding as needed.

Categories

Case/Care Management
Psychiatric Case Management

Prevention, diversion, and intervention services targeting youth to stabilize families in crisis, prevent juvenile delinquency, and divert youth at risk of involvement in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems.

Categories

Case/Care Management
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
Juvenile Delinquency Prevention
Medical case management program for children in DCFS custody. Provides health screenings, examinations, primary care, and specialty care.
Case management program for the elderly including coordination of community services to help client remain in their own home. Locates and identifies needed community services such as shopping, cooking meals, assistance in bathing and dressing, paying bills, household chores, personal emergency response systems, transportation; advocacy.

Categories

Case/Care Management
In Home Supportive Services Subsidies
Assists older adults with multiple long-term care needs who wish to remain safely and comfortably independent in their own homes. Services include a comprehensive assessment of need, care planning and the ongoing assistance of a case manager to initiate and monitor home and community-based services.

Provides case management for budgeting, money management/payee services, and nursing home placement for the mentally ill. Also helps to provide linkage following discharge from both state operated facilities and hospitals.

Offers services to promote optimal health and provide support for pregnant women, infants, and children with high-risk medical conditions by encouraging early prenatal care and making referrals to community and social services.

Family Case Management assists with understanding the importance of prenatal care, finding a doctor for prenatal care, understanding proper nutrition for both mother and child, understanding the stages of child development, learning parenting skills, recognizing the signs and symptoms of preterm labor, understanding the importance of well-child visits and immunizations, and connecting to additional resources.

Public Health Nurses and Case Managers provide services in the office or at home, offering information on prenatal needs, infant care, parenting, and household safety tips to protect infants and children. Additionally, guidance is available on child passenger safety, including selecting an appropriate car seat based on a child's height and weight, correct car seat installation, and ensuring proper child restraint in vehicles.

Assists individuals with mental illness, intellectual disabilities, and developmental disabilities in accessing needed services and supports. Coordinators provide information, referral, assess individuals for needs, develop a treatment plan, and coordinate funding as needed.

Categories

Case/Care Management
Psychiatric Case Management

Services are customized to address barriers and needs to help the participant and household reach housing stability and self-sufficiency. Services include:
- Case management and advocacy
- Transportation assistance
- Employment skills
- Education assistance
- Mental health and substance abuse counseling
- Life skills and financial skills education
- Parenting support
- Housing counseling
- Information and referrals

Categories

Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Access Centers
Mental Health Evaluation
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.

Categories

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

Care team that specializes in providing integrated primary medical and behavioral health care and social services to the LGBTQ+ community. Services provided:

- Assessments and referrals to Hormone Replacement Therapy.

- Hormone Replacement Therapy.

- Letters for surgery.

- Counseling.

- Family Medicine.

- Case management and care coordination.

- Nutrition education.

- OB/GYN.

- Enrollment assistance (insurance/ Medicare/Medicaid).

- Referrals for other needed services.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Sexual Orientation Counseling
General Medical Care
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Case/Care Management
Transgender Hormone Therapy

Woman and infant health care services to assist with a healthy pregnancy and to promote the infant's healthy development.

Offers crime victim and support services to victims of gun violence and their families, including:

- Crisis Response: Crisis Response services are available to every family in the aftermath of gun violence. This includes mental health first-aid, practical needs of the victim and family, liaise with law enforcement, engage in interactive safety planning, and address any other emerging urgent needs.

- Funeral Expense Assistance: For deaths by gun violence, our specialists provide information and rights assistance and expense assistance for funeral arrangements.

- Legal & Medical Advocacy: Case Manager will ensure you are supported and informed during the aftermath. This includes: getting case updates from the police department, attending court alongside individuals or families, attending doctors appointments or hearings, etc.

- Government Aid Assistance: Case Manager can assist in necessary applications for Medicaid benefits.

- Support Groups: Offered for parents that have lost someone to gun violence, for teens that have been affected by gun violence, for adults that have been affected by gun violence, for victims of gun violence, and for our forgiveness campaign.

Categories

Families/Friends of Homicide Victims Support Groups
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Crime Victim Support
Crime Victim Support Groups
Case/Care Management
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance

Provides case management and referral information to households to help them build and maintain stability within the family and household. Services may include some financial assistance to help reach stability.

Offers to connect pregnant and parenting teens in the foster care system to community-based supportive services that can meet their unique needs including home visiting and doula services. Home Visiting programs providing specially-trained home visitors who work with parents to build their skills and promote their children's healthy development.

Provides services to survivors of sexual violence. Also offers education to the community in an effort to end violence and victimization. Services include counseling, 24 hours crisis and information hotline, support groups, medical and legal advocacy, training for police and criminal justice personnel, prevention education, case management, and protective orders.

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Case/Care Management
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault Counseling
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Child Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Joint effort between Public Aid and Public Health to facilitate access to care; program serves income-eligible, pregnant women, and infants under the age of 1, although a limited number of fragile families with children over the age of 1 are also served. Pediatric, obstetric, and dental referrals are provided; some funds for services are available through a primary care grant.

Assists families with pregnant women, an infant, or a young child to obtain the health care services and other services they may need to have a healthy pregnancy and to promote the child's healthy growth and development.

Program Goals:
- To provide access to primary health care
- To identify and resolve access barriers through referral and linking
- To provide health education to all eligible clients
- To reduce infant mortality

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

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