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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

Provides the following services:

-- Crisis counseling

-- Follow-up home visits

-- Parent education classes and support groups

-- Referrals for food, clothing, shelter, drug/alcohol treatment, domestic violence, etc

-- Necessities such as diapers, formula, clothes, etc.

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Formula/Baby Food
Home Based Parenting Education
Children's Clothing
Diapers
Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Specialized Information and Referral
Parenting Skills Classes
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Early Access is a partnership between families with young children, birth to age three, and providers from the Departments of Education, Public Health, Human Services, the Child Health Specialty Clinics. Families and staff work together in identifying, coordinating and providing needed services and resources that will help the family assist their infant or toddler to grow and develop.

Early Childhood Education Services offer instructional and supportive services for special needs children and their families, in cooperation with local school districts. Offers developmental and hearing screenings as well as educational evaluations. Instructional and supportive services include home intervention, speech and language therapy, physical and occupational therapy, toddler groups, and parent education and consultation to preschools and daycare centers.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Home Based Parenting Education
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Offers the following health services to Webster County residents:

Care For Yourself: Early detection of breast and cervical cancer for women age 50 and over, including mammograms and Pap tests. Must meet income guidelines. Call (515) 281-7689.

Family Planning/Reproductive Health: Offers confidential services for adolescents and adults to help guide decisions regarding reproductive healthcare needs. Clinic hours are Wed 8 am-4:30 pm, Thu 8 am-4:30 pm (by appointment only), Fri 8 am-12 pm.

i-Smile: Dental services for children ages 0-21, including dental screenings, preventive fluoride, dental care education, sealants to children in 2nd through 8th grades, and help making dentist appointments.

Maternal Health: Prenatal program providing information and education to pregnant women on having a healthy pregnancy and getting ready for their baby.

Senior Health: Services for seniors 60 years of age and older, including health education, blood pressure screenings, foot clinics, and the I-Smile Silver program.

WIC (WOMEN, INFANTS, CHILDREN): Nutrition information for pregnant women, new mothers, and mothers with children under age 5. Can provide $50 or more a month for groceries, even if already employed and/or receiving food stamps; must be Medicaid-eligible.

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Teen Family Planning Programs
Hearing Screening
Mammograms
Breast Examinations
Home Based Parenting Education
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
Dental Screening
WIC
Dental Care
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Foot Screening
Birth Control
Blood Pressure Screening
Pregnancy Testing
Pap Tests

Provides therapeutic and skill-building interventions within the home. Families referred may have severe mental health issues, abuse or neglect issues, or youth with serious emotional and behavioral disturbances. The major goal of this program is to prevent an out-of-home placement of the youth to reunify families and stabilize placement. Omni provides this service to preserve the family's integrity and prevent unnecessary out-of-home placements, to put adolescents and their families in touch with community resources for long term outside support, and to strengthen the family's coping skills and capacity to function effectively in the community after treatment is completed.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Counseling
Family Support Services specialists provide in-home and community educational and support services to assist with parenting and home management problems that place children at risk of abuse or neglect.

Intensive Family Preservation is a response to a family crisis that may, without intervention, result in the removal of children from the home. Services are varied but may include help with parenting strategies, relationship issues, communication skills, anger management, school problems, behavior problems, and life skills.

Parenting Time services are provided to children who have been removed from their biological family's home and are now allowed supervised visits with a member of their biological family. Activities include teaching or modeling parenting skills, reinforcing behavioral management skills and teaching coping skills. Specialists help families strengthen bonds by identifying issues that affect the family's relationships by observing and assessing visits. Specialists also provide information to assist with permanency plans for the child.

Family Support helps build families through strength-based activities such as developing appropriate social skills, teaching parenting and nurturing, creating family bonding, teaching awareness of boundaries, developing self esteem, seeking community resources, seeking employment, and teaching home economics.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Family Preservation Programs
Parental Visitation Facilitation

Offers home visiting, parental support, parent workshops, community referrals, and play groups. Free developmental screenings are offered for all children 0-3 residing in Decatur Public District 61.

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Pediatric Developmental Screening
Home Based Parenting Education

Offers an after-school program for low-income children and families. Includes healthy meals and snacks, assistance with medical and dental care, educational field trips, and support services to the family.

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Child Development Classes
Early Childhood Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education

Provides voluntary home visiting services that offers family support and coaching for expectant parents and parents of young children ages birth to 3. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, practical parenting skills, and family bonding. Provides regular visits based on the family's needs, preferences, and schedules. Visits may be in-person or virtual.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
An in-home family based parenting program promoting healthy and nurturing family relationships. These parenting sessions are intended as a tool to increase parental knowledge, skills, parent-child attachments, social competencies and improve the families overall wellbeing and self sufficiency.
Provides before and after school programs, family support programs, early childhood education, and youth programs.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Support Groups
Neighborhood Multipurpose Centers
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
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Home Based Parenting Education

Nurse home visiting service for expecting mothers to receive additional support throughout pregnancy and during child's first few years of life, with the goal of helping mothers achieve their goals and maintain healthy families.

Offers 1 on 1 support and guidance from a nurse that comes to patient's home.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Provides an Early Childhood prevention programs offering in home services to high risk new moms (prenatal to 5 years of age). Services include parenting education, support, transportation, developmental checks, connections with community resources, referrals and case management. Preventing child abuse and neglect, improving child health, positive parenting.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education

Provides a program that pairs families with a home-visitor based on each family's needs and schedules. Home visitors emphasize practical parenting skills as well as family bonding before birth and as children grow up.

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.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Share and Support provides information and support for parents. Home visits are available by trained parent educators. Group meetings with other parents are also available.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Parenting Skills Classes

Developmental screening, connection to community resources, home visits, and monthly family socialization activities available for qualifying families.

Head Start is a federally-funded program that serves children from birth to age five and pregnant women, offering a school readiness program in addition to comprehensive services to children and their families who meet income guidelines.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Development Classes
Early Childhood Education
Home visiting services for families who are expecting a baby or have children ages 0-5. The program is free and voluntary and provides support to help families become self sufficient.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Family-centered care services with special attention to the postpartum stage, including guidance on self care and parenting skills. Mommy and Me visit made to home 24-48 hours after discharge of newborn to answer and questions or concerns.

Public health services include:

-- Family STEPS Home Visitation Program,

-- Child and Adolescent Immunization Program,

-- Vaccines for Adults Program,

-- Child and Adolescent Health/Oral Health,

-- Family Planning,

-- Emergency Preparedness,

-- Communicable Disease Investigation, and other initiatives to reduce health disparities.

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General Immunization
Home Based Parenting Education
Communicable Disease Control
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Family support for families prenatal until school age.

Home based parent education is a Parents as Teachers and Early Head Start affiliated program. Provides in home visitation including parenting support and education. Certified Parent Educators provide personalized visits, group connections, and a resource network to support families through the most critical years of a child's development. Assist with increasing parent knowledge of early childhood development, support children's learning, connect families with needed resources, and empower families. Provides developmental screenings, mental health screening/maternal depression screening, parent/child activity groups, safe sleep education, and breastfeeding support.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Parenting Skills Classes

Provides voluntary home visiting services that offers family support and coaching for expectant parents and parents of young children ages birth to 3. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, practical parenting skills, and family bonding. Provides regular visits based on the family's needs, preferences, and schedules. Visits may be in-person or virtual.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education