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Provides in-home case management as well as 24-hour response to emergencies. Services include a case manager who will monitor individuals weekly to ensure they are linked with the necessary resources and referrals for both inpatient and outpatient drug treatment programs. Services may also include weekly in-home and out-of-home counseling for adults, children, couples, and families. Families may also be referred to a number of community-based services, including medical services, counseling, drug or alcohol treatment support groups, food pantries, housing, employment training, and continuing education programs.

Care Coordinators serve as expert resources in evaluating the needs of the elderly, recommending services, and working with seniors in an ongoing relationship.

Once abilities have been determined, the care coordinators work in collaboration with the senior to develop a care plan. The care plan represents the best combination of services available to meet the needs of elderly clients.

Offers client and family support services for individuals diagnosed with seizures, their families, and the community at large. Resource facilitators provide:

- Information and referral.

- Comprehensive case management.

- Advocacy.

- Counseling.

- Financial planning assistance.

- Support groups.

- Medical liaison.

- Community education.

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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management

A program designed to provide community-based services that will meet the needs of individuals with brain injuries and help prevent unnecessary institutionalization.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Case/Care Management
Specialized Information and Referral
Disability Rights Groups

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

Guides families through their child's journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child's medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family's income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

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Children's In Home Respite Care
Case/Care Management
The Case Management program provides frail seniors with the opportunity to make their own choices regarding long-term care. Case Management offers frail seniors age 60 and over an alternative to nursing facilities or other forms of institutionalized care. The Case Management program helps coordinate community services which will allow older people to remain safely in their home. Each person is monitored by an individual Case Manager who provides assistance in making the appropriate choices that best fit their needs.

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Case/Care Management
Long Term Care Options Counseling

Provides case/care management assessments for seniors who may need homemaker services.

Emergency shelter for survivors of domestic/sexual violence & homelessness with their minor children needing a safe place to stay. There is a 40-bed shelter for victims and their children. A case manager will work with clients while they are at the shelter to make a service plan for them and their children.

Residents are provided room and board with meals, 24-hour case management, counseling, and material assistance.

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Domestic Violence Shelters
Case/Care Management
Coordination services for those with mental health or intellectual and other developmental disabilities. Each county offers a service coordinator to assist with applications for Medicaid, food assistance, housing, childcare assistance, Social Security and other human/social services that are available in the community. Directs individuals to a variety of programs to help with day-to-day living, housing, employment, and health challenges. Can also help direct clients to a variety of inpatient and outpatient resources focused on mental and physical health treatments.

Organization that investigates and treats the sexual and physical abuse cases of children. Children are interviewed in a comfortable environment to gather information regarding the child's experience. Services offered include:

- Crisis counseling.

- Victim advocacy and support.

- Case management.

- Legal, medical, and resource advocacy.

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Sexual Assault Counseling
Abuse Counseling
Child Advocacy Centers
Case/Care Management

Guides families through their child's journey with a medical condition. Works with doctors, schools and community groups to create a seamless support system.

Care coordination team works together with families to develop a plan of care that addresses a child's medical, social, behavioral, educational and financial needs. Care coordination is free for all children who have eligible medical conditions, regardless of their family's income level.

Care coordination can include finding specialized medical care, helping families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan, explaining insurance benefits and attending school meetings.

Helps children who are medically fragile remain in their family home rather than a hospital or skilled nursing facility.

Assists with:

- Finding specialized medical care

- Making sure families understand their child's diagnosis and medical treatment plan

- Helping families understand their insurance benefits and maximize their coverage

- Attending IEP /504 Plan school meeting

- Connecting families with financial support, grants and other community resources

- Preparing for the transition to adulthood

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Children's In Home Respite Care
Case/Care Management

Provides in-home case management as well as 24-hour response to emergencies. Services include a case manager who will monitor individuals weekly to ensure they are linked with the necessary resources and referrals for both inpatient and outpatient drug treatment programs. Services may also include weekly in-home and out-of-home counseling for adults, children, couples, and families. Families may also be referred to a number of community-based services, including medical services, counseling, drug or alcohol treatment support groups, food pantries, housing, employment training, and continuing education programs.

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.

Foster care program for teens.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Case/Care Management
Life Skills Education
Public Health works with the elderly and Elderbridge Area Agency on Aging.

Provides several programs that may be able to assist families or individuals that find themselves homeless with no place to stay. Emergency Shelters may be provided through hotel vouchers when funding is available. Staff will work with the families/individuals to determine eligibility. Staff will provide case management and assist in locating housing that will meet the household's needs. Through HUD funding, C.E.F.S. can assist households with rent and supportive services while the household participates in case management. Case management will include budget counseling, goal setting, assessment of needs, and referrals.

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Case/Care Management
Homeless Motel Vouchers

Home visitation program serving parents who are pregnant or have children up to three years old. Support and information is provided.

Services are designed to, maximize children's overall development, and provide a foundation for school success. Provide developmental screening to minimize developmental problems which might interfere with learning and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides service coordination and advocacy services to children and adults with development delays and/or disabilities. Also provides case coordination for participants in the Brain Injury program through the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services.

Developmental Disabilities Services may include:

- Pre-Admission Screening (PAS): Pre-admission screening to determine eligibility, secure provider agencies, and obtain funding.

- Bogard Individual Service Coordination: Ensure active treatment for seniors in nursing facilities. This service is for individuals from a closed lawsuit in 1988. No new individuals are eligible for this service.

- Case Coordination: Information and referrals; community awareness and education; enrollment of individuals on the PUNS statewide waitlist for services.

- Individual Services and Support Advocacy (ISSA): Assistance with accessing services to meet the individual's needs; act as advocates for the individual.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
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.

Provides education, resources and support to pregnant and postpartum women. Services include:

- Health education, health screenings and referrals

- Referrals to other health care or local community services

- Help in arranging for delivery

- Referrals for family planning and infant health care

- Oral health screenings, fluoride varnish applications and dental referrals

- Assistance with applying for Medicaid

- Social assessment and referrals

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Well Baby Care
Prenatal Care
Case/Care Management
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Dental Screening
Dental Care Referrals

Provides the following services for sexual assault victims and survivors:
- Individual, family, and group counseling
- Medical and legal advocacy
- Assistance in obtaining Orders of Protection
- Case management to assist with additional needs, such as food needs, changing locks, and more
- 24 hour sexual assault hotline
- Sexual assault prevention education

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Child Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Case/Care Management
Sexual Assault Counseling
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention

Provides in-home case management as well as 24-hour response to emergencies. Services include a case manager who will monitor individuals weekly to ensure they are linked with the necessary resources and referrals for both inpatient and outpatient drug treatment programs. Services may also include weekly in-home and out-of-home counseling for adults, children, couples, and families. Families may also be referred to a number of community-based services, including medical services, counseling, drug or alcohol treatment support groups, food pantries, housing, employment training, and continuing education programs.

Provides case management services to help individuals experiencing hardship. Case Managers work individually with families to provide ongoing support and to get connected to much-needed services.

Offers immunizations, vaccines, family case management, pregnancy testing services, county school nursing, vision and hearing screenings, high-risk infant and maternal home visits, childhood lead poisoning prevention, Kid Care enrollment.

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Eye Screening
Tuberculosis Screening
Home Based Parenting Education
Communicable Disease Control
Case/Care Management
Hearing Screening
Pregnancy Testing