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A home visitation program that provides parent education, family support, early intervention services and serves as a link to health care services.
Provides nursing visits to pregnant and parenting women living in Dallas, Polk, Madison and Warren Counties. Services include prenatal and postpartum health education and child development screening. Interpretation services are available.

Outreach Specialists assist uninsured families, children, and pregnant women in obtaining health care coverage and finding a doctor or dentist. Services include answering questions about available insurance options, assisting with completing Hawki or Medicaid applications, advocacy, community referrals, EveryStep Dental Voucher Program for children.

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State/Local Health Insurance Programs
Dental Care Referrals
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Postpartum Care
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials

Family resource program to support parents in educating and nurturing their children. The program provides parents with opportunities to move toward self-sufficiency by working with other community organizations. Health and mental health services are also provided to participants.

Program helps parents better understand their child's stages of development with individualized visits in the home. The weekly visits are 90 minutes in length and are designed to meet the needs of each family. Staff will assist families in planning activities that encourage the child's growth. Social activities will be held twice monthly to provide the opportunity to interact with your child and other families.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Early Childhood Education
Pregnancy testing and counseling. Obstetric ultrasound (limited) after positive pregnancy test.

Information and referral to social services and medical services.

Maternity and baby supplies for people enrolled in the program.

Parenting classes.

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Pregnancy Testing
Fetal Ultrasound
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Pregnancy Counseling
Crisis Pregnancy Hotlines

Provides parenting evaluations, custody evaluations, supervised visitation, and individual parenting education. Also able to provide reunification therapy, co-parenting therapy, integrated parenting therapy, as well as therapeutic services for those in the foster care system, and adoptive families.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Offers pregnancy support services which provides in home services for those eligible. The program is free and voluntary. Home visits made on a weekly or biweekly basis. A family support worker is assigned to use a positive approach and build a trusting relationship with the family. Curriculum focuses on parenting skills, child development and building positive parent-child interactions and bonding.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parent Counseling
Home Based Parenting Education
Parenting programs for parents of children 2-5 years old, 6-16 years old, ADD/ADH/ADHD children, and Spanish speaking parents - La Crianiza Practica Le Los Hijos, Ninos.

Classes held in various locations.
Program for pregnant, birthing, and postpartum people to ensure more babies can celebrate their first birthday (prevent infant mortality), and improve birth outcomes. Clients will receive care from a Registered Nurse and Social Worker to provide pregnancy support.

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Potty training class, held in the HMC lobby during the diaper giveaway. Raffle prizes are given during the program.

Parents as Teachers promotes the optimal early development, learning and health of children by supporting and engaging their parents and caregivers. This program is a research based, home visiting program that builds on the concept that parents are in the best position to influence their child's readiness to learn. Parents as Teachers provides specific, timely information about child development in the family home, or at another comfortable setting. Parents learn what they can do to provide their children with a positive start in life that will help ensure their success in school. The program includes home visits, parent group meetings, developmental screenings and a resource network.

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Child Development Classes
Pediatric Developmental Screening
Home Based Parenting Education
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
We Care Shop is an incentive-based store where participants of YPN prenatal and parenting classes and home visitations can bring their points earned in and shop for baby care items such as: diapers, wipes, clothing, shoes, toys, books, highchairs, strollers, walkers, boppy pillows and more. All items in the shop have been donated by community members so inventory varies by season.
Appanoose County Public Health in conjunction with Marion County Public Health take part in the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) Clinics held in Centerville. Some of the services offered are: Ages and Stages Assessments, Lead Screenings, Vision Screenings, and I-Smile Services.
Fatherhood classes are provided by Dads With A Purpose which offers resources that assist in the development and strengthening of the family unit, with some programs and/or classes focusing primarily on the father, while others focus on the mother. Also provides co-parenting classes to help strengthen the parents as a "team." Classes are once a week for eight weeks. Child support forgiveness and Y membership available.

The maternal health program provides a home visit for mom and baby upon discharge from hospital, lactation consultation services and education on newborns, safe sleep and caring for yourself and baby.

Offers pregnancy support services which provides in home services for those eligible. The program is free and voluntary. Home visits made on a weekly or biweekly basis. A family support worker is assigned to use a positive approach and build a trusting relationship with the family. Curriculum focuses on parenting skills, child development and building positive parent-child interactions and bonding.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parent Counseling
Home Based Parenting Education
Stork's Nest is an educational incentive program. Participants earn points for healthy behaviors such as keeping medical appointments, WIC participation, breastfeeding and school attendance. These points are redeemed for needed baby items such as diapers, clothing, strollers, cribs and car seats.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Baby Clothing
Parenting Materials
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Provides face to face or virtual coaching, teaching, and role modeling to assists the family in creative, rapid and sustainable change in the family unit through supervised visits between parents and children to promote parent-child attachment.

Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

Categories

Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Co-Parenting Workshops
Child Care Provider Training
Parenting Materials

Provides a free program for families with kids, ages 5 and younger, living in Dubuque County. At personal visits, children learn through play with provided materials and families get to connect through activities, games, and crafts. Families get information about every stage of child development and are invited to monthly groups to connect with other families.

Also offers annual screenings to make sure kids are developmentally on track and connect families to community resources. PAT partners with parents and caregivers to support them through their parenting journey.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Home Based Parenting Education
Parenting Materials
Offers one-to-one counseling, group or family sessions for substance abuse including opioids, as well as for problem gambling. Offers substance abuse evaluation, DUI classes, restorative parenting classes, and referrals to other social services in the area.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Gambling Disorder Counseling
DUI Offender Programs
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Drug Use Disorder Support Groups