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Long term residential placement for youth 10-18 years of age. Outpatient substance abuse treatment and therapy services available for youth placed in the long-term residential program.

Behavioral health services for youth 5-18 years of age depending on the program or service.

Volunteer mentoring program for 3rd through 12th grade in math or reading skills.

Family preservation services in Iowa and Nebraska.

Educational programs for professionals working with youth.

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Mentoring Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Residential Mental Health Treatment Facilities
Mentoring program opportunities for children ages 6 years old to 13 years old. Mentors need to be at least 18 years old to volunteer.

Provides practical help and support to those facing an unplanned pregnancy. "One Woman, One Baby at a time". This is done by informing those in an unplanned pregnancy of options and assistance available to them. Encouraging girls, women, men and families with a pregnancy or pregnancy loss by providing personal and practical help for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Educating individuals, students and our community by advocating sexual purity as a positive lifestyle.

Offers pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, childbirth education, vocational rehabilitation and mentoring.

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Pregnancy Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Childbirth Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Vocational Rehabilitation

Matches youth ages 5-12 with caring, positive, committed, adult role models. The youth (Little) and mentor (Big) meet in the community 2-4 times per month for a minimum of 4 hours and spend time exploring activities they already enjoy and trying some new ones.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Mentoring Programs
Team Sports/Leagues
Tutoring Services
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

The School Based program matches sophomores, juniors, and seniors with elementary school students. These matches meet together at elementary schools for 45-60 minutes per week on-on-one. Matches do activities together, play games, work on homework, complete crafts, play outside and more. Mentors must have their own transportation and meet the mentee at the same time on the same day each week.

Operates out of the following schools

:Grand Island Public Schools

Grand Island Central Catholic

Wood River Rural Schools

Central City Public School

Grand Island Senior High

Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Team Sports/Leagues
Tutoring Services
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Team Sports/Leagues
Tutoring Services
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

Provides practical help and support to those facing an unplanned pregnancy. "One Woman, One Baby at a time". This is done by informing those in an unplanned pregnancy of options and assistance available to them. Encouraging girls, women, men and families with a pregnancy or pregnancy loss by providing personal and practical help for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Educating individuals, students and our community by advocating sexual purity as a positive lifestyle.

Offers pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, childbirth education, vocational rehabilitation and mentoring.

Categories

Pregnancy Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Childbirth Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Vocational Rehabilitation
Teen Moms program provides mentoring and other services to help teen mothers reach self-sufficiency.

Young Dads program.

Youth guidance programs.

Anger management.

GAPS (Group for Adolescents Providing Support).

Alternate School available.

Mentoring groups for youth ages 10-19, small and large groups available.

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Mentoring Programs
Faith Based Youth Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Offers to empower male youth to make positive life choices. Program provides participants with mentor/mentee matches, weekly group mentoring sessions, graduation ceremonies and special events. Locations vary within the Polk County area, including community and school-based sites.

Provides the opportunity for the mentor (Big) to visit their Little in the child's school, after school program, or at another youth-serving agency. This allows for the mentor to meet in a more structured environment than out in the community, usually for about an hour per week.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Team Sports/Leagues
Tutoring Services
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

Provides practical help and support to those facing an unplanned pregnancy. "One Woman, One Baby at a time". This is done by informing those in an unplanned pregnancy of options and assistance available to them. Encouraging girls, women, men and families with a pregnancy or pregnancy loss by providing personal and practical help for their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Educating individuals, students and our community by advocating sexual purity as a positive lifestyle.

Offers pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, childbirth education, vocational rehabilitation and mentoring.

Categories

Pregnancy Counseling
Mentoring Programs
Childbirth Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Skills Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Testing
Vocational Rehabilitation
Long term residential placement for youth 10-18 years of age. Outpatient substance abuse treatment and therapy services available for youth placed in the long-term residential program.

Behavioral health services for youth 5-18 years of age depending on the program or service.

Volunteer mentoring program for 3rd through 12th grade in math or reading skills.

Family preservation services in Iowa and Nebraska.

Educational programs for professionals working with youth.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Family Preservation Programs
Residential Mental Health Treatment Facilities

Matches youth ages 5-12 with caring, positive, committed, adult role models. The youth (Little) and mentor (Big) meet in the community 2-4 times per month for a minimum of 4 hours and spend time exploring activities they already enjoy and trying some new ones.

Matches youth ages 5-12 with caring, positive, committed, adult role models. The youth (Little) and mentor (Big) meet in the community 2-4 times per month for a minimum of 4 hours and spend time exploring activities they already enjoy and trying some new ones.

Volunteer tutors for adults, available to native speakers of English seeking to improve literacy skills and those learning English as a new language (English Language Learners).

One to one instruction is available for learners desiring to work at their own pace and/or on a specific skill area.

Small group tutoring is offered through programs organized around students of particular cultures, needs, or goals (Citizenship, Family Literacy, and Workforce Readiness for Refugees, GED Prep and CNA Prep), and in programs to develop vocabulary and skills in a specific subject area (Computer Literacy). Additionally, family literacy programs are available for adult English language learners and their preschool and early elementary age children.

Free conversation groups provide a forum for students to practice their skills in listening and speaking English. Tutors facilitate the groups by giving students discussion topics, vocabulary and dialogue practice.

Volunteer tutors are trained through a 3-5-hour program covering learning styles, adult language acquisition and lesson development. Persons 18 years or older are invited to become tutors and LL members. A minimum commitment of one year is requested for volunteer tutors.

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Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs
Literacy Programs
English as a Second Language
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.

Intensive support to high-risk children in foster care to stabilize placements and prevent entry into higher levels of care. Services offered include:

-- Brief individual and family counseling.

-- Placement stabilization services.

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Community linkage.

-- Foster parent support.

-- School intervention and tutoring.

-- Court advocacy.

-- Mentoring services.

-- Enrichment activities.

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Mentoring Programs
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
General Counseling Services

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

Categories

Mentoring Programs
Team Sports/Leagues
Tutoring Services
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs

- Prevention Education: Mentees participate in school based prevention education groups on a weekly basis. Topics covered include self-awareness, social bondage, etiquette, college and career education, and personal development.

- College/Career Preparation: Mentees receive individual mentorship to assist with developing and implementing college/career plans, college applications, completing the FASFA, scholarship forms, transportation to college/career interviews, and annual college tours.

- KFACT University: Continuing support to program participants through university.

- Labor of Love: Opportunities for mentees to give back to the community through volunteerism.

Mentoring, tutoring and after school STEM program, community navigation for the metro area's refugee and immigrant youth.
Offers professionally supported, one-on-one relationships with adult mentors. Mentors and mentees are matched by similar interests. Monthly activities and community service projects are planned for mentoring pairs to participate in. Mentors spend an average of 1 hour per week for a minimum of one year with their mentee.