Offers home visitation program. Parent educators visit homes to offer support and information about the changing needs of children. Focuses on children as born learners who learn best from their parents. Serves families who are expecting a child as well as those with children up to five years of age who live in Fremont and Page Counties.

WIC (Women Infants, & Children) is a supplemental nutrition program for babies, children under the age of 5, pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and women who have had a baby in the last 6 months. Provides healthy foods, nutrition education, and referrals to other health care agencies.

To find a local WIC office, visit https://hhs.iowa.gov/wic

Self-Sufficiency - The self-sufficiency program provides voluntary home visitation services to parents and kinship caregivers. The program provides flexible one-on-one services to help clients make progress towards personal goals and access resources to meet identified needs.

Home Visiting Services - The Healthy Families America program serves low-income pregnant women, age 19 and older, living in Douglas County, while the Young Parent Support Program serves pregnant and parenting teens, and young adults ages 25 and younger, residing anywhere within the Omaha-metro area, including Bellevue and Council Bluffs.

Within the home visitation programs, a trained Family Resource Specialist (FRS) provides weekly home visits where parents learn about the development of their child, from before birth through their fifth birthday. The specialist will also support each family's goals and connect them with resources in the community to meet their needs.

Provides a comprehensive home visitation program for pregnant moms and/or postnatal parents. Using a family centered model that promotes healthy birth outcomes. Also supports parent leadership, parent-child relationships, healthy living and adequate social support.

Open Door Mission's Timberlake Outreach Center is proud to offer expecting mothers and parents with children up to 12 months an abundance of resources. This is a program that empowers parents to choose life and enable them to keep their children.

This program provides resources to parents who qualify: Diapers, educational materials on parenting and breast feeding, as well as a consumer choice of a variety of other essential items.

Provides accurate information on adoption, and lifelong support, so the family is successful in meeting the child's best interest by offering the following services and resources:

Provides free and confidential pregnancy counseling for families, every step of the way; before, during, and after the birth of the child.

Assistance with making an adoption plan or parenting plan.

Parenting education.

Support and education for baby's father on request.

Home studies for prospective adoptive parents.

Newborn care home for baby as a safe haven.

Family centered services include Teen Parents and the Law (TPAL) Classes - 12 sessions directed toward teen parents, funded by Boost4Families.

Parents as Teachers (PAT) is an early childhood family education program to assist and support families in preparing their children for success in school and beyond, beginning prenatal and extending to age 5.

Included in the Program:

-- Parent Group Meeting, which are opportunities to share information about parenting issues and child development. Parents learn and support each other, observe their children with other children and practice parenting skills.

-- Personal visits, during which a certified parent educator will share age-appropriate child development and parenting information, to help learn to observe children, and address parenting concerns.

-- Screenings to assess a child's overall development as well as health, hearing, and vision. Resource network - that link families to other community services.

NOTE: The TYPP program no longer exists at NECC. Inquiries for the TYPP program should be directed to the following TYPP Partners:

Child Saving Institute - (402) 553-6000

Boys Town - (800) 448-3000

Nebraska Children's Home Society - (402) 451-0787

Other partners: VNA (Visiting Nurse Association)

PROGRAM DETAILS: Provides parents with referrals to prenatal education, parenting education, support to remain in school, or anything in between. The program is a comprehensive, integrated system of early health, academic, and family services. Ensures that families of young children (birth to eight) receives support to promote healthy lifestyles and to increase educational attainment for parents and their children.

Public health department.

--Immunizations are available for persons of all ages. Red Willow County Health Department accepts private insurance and also has programs for free immunizations for individuals without insurance.

--Lab draws are every Thursday morning by appointment. Panel $50.00, PSA $35.00, TSH $30.00, HA1C $25.00, and Vit D $55.00.

--Footcare by appointment only, at $30.00 per visit.

--RWCHD also provides Exercise and Blood Pressure Clinics in the community.

--Health promotion and education.

--Newborn baby visits.

--Childcare provider health screening.

--School Health Screenings.

--Paternity Testing (State Ordered Only).

--Radon Testing available for $40.00.

Offers primary prevention services such as health and development, school readiness, socialization, parent-child interaction, parenting and family skills.

Babies Nest is an incentive program to earn free baby items by scheduling regular pregnancy visits, maintaining healthy behaviors, and attending educational parenting classes. Must be enrolled in the program by the 7th month of pregnancy.

H.O.P.E.S. (Healthy Opportunities for Parents to Experience Success) is a home visitation program for pregnant women, parents of newborns, and other families with children ages birth to 5.