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VNA Health Center - Elgin - Villa Street

801 Villa Street, Elgin, IL 60120

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

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United Way of the Midlands

VNA Health Center - Aurora - Indian Avenue

1400 Indian Avenue, Aurora, IL 60505

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

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Short Years Partnership

515 North Jefferson Way, Suite I, Indianola, IA 50125

A long term, home visiting program for parents or caregivers residing in Dallas, Madison, Warren, Marion, or Jasper Counties with a child aged prenatal to three. The PAT Program provides family support, parenting education, developmental screening and connection to community resources. The program provides twice monthly home visits to families, always bringing a parent/child activity that will encourage the child's development. The goal of the program is to assist parents in practicing development centered parenting so that their child is healthy, ready to learn and succeed.

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Community Health Partners of Sioux County

705 Highway 10 West, Orange City, IA 51041

Home based program focusing on expectant parents and parents of newborn​.

- Promotes bonding and attachment and healthy parent child interaction.

- Coaches, encourages and supports parents.

- Links parents to community resources.

- Monitors child growth/development.

- Problem-solves with parents.

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Parent to Parent Network

328 West Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701
Parent support groups for parents of special needs children (developmental disabilities, behavioral/emotional disorders, or physical challenges). Parenting classes. Information and referral. Educational materials and quarterly newsletter. Trained advocates can attend meetings with parents, such as court hearings and IEPs, and can meet one on one in home to address parenting concerns.

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Sinnissippi Centers - Mt. Carroll Office

1122 Healthcare Drive, Mount Carroll, IL 61053

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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Lee County Health Department

5001 Avenue O, Fort Madison, IA 52627

Provides support for parents in caring for their child through scheduled in-home visits. A family support worker may work with the family until the child reaches five years of age or until the family no longer request services.

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Omni Inventive Care - Lincoln Office

2300 South 13th Street, Lincoln, NE 68502

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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Crisis Nursery

1309 West Hill Street, Urbana, IL 61801

Provides resources and services for families needing additional support, including families in crisis, struggling with postpartum depression, or dealing with situations such as homelessness, kinship care, parenting as a teen, and more.

Services include:

  • Crisis counseling
  • Home visits and parenting education
  • Facilitated play groups (meet other families and learn about your child's development)
  • Parent support groups with childcare provided
  • Parenting education classes

    - Toys, books and diapers may be available

  • Referrals for resources and follow-ups

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East Aurora School District 131

310 Seminary Avenue, Aurora, IL 60505
Bi-monthly visits with parents in their homes to share information on child development and to work with families to set goals and solve child-related problems.

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Sky Ranch Behavioral Services

505 Fifth Street, Suite 100, Sioux City, IA 51101

Offers outpatient mental health therapy for children, adolescents, and adults, including Individual Sessions, Family Sessions, Couples Sessions, and Group Sessions.

The staff will meet with the client weekly in the comfort of their home or in the Sky Ranch office. The primary focus will be on individual support and guidance in the areas of behavior, interpersonal relationship skills, internal control development, and family relationship skills.

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First Taste Parenting Program

1690 Career Center Road, Bourbonnais, IL 60914

Provides a program that focuses on parent education and child development for parents of children birth to 3 years old. Recognizing the fact that parents are their children's first and most influential teachers, First Taste is designed to provide support and practical information to parents through home visits, group meetings, and periodic screenings. The program also includes the services of a social worker who helps parents obtain needed services by referring them to proper area agencies. Includes home visits and playgroups for the families.

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Baby Fold, The - Adoption Support and Training Services

614 Oglesby Avenue, Normal, IL 61761

Provides free home visiting program to help parents in the role of being their child's first and most important teacher. Offers information on child development, positive discipline techniques, parenting skills, and other topics parents may feel are helpful. Link families with resources in the community. Services are provided in the home or a community location the family chooses. Also offers a preventive focus program to assist families with building protective factors and decreasing rate of DCFS intervention.

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VNA Health Care - Carol Stream - Mona Kea

397 South Schmale Road, Carol Stream, IL 60188

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

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Southeast District Health Department

2511 Schneider Avenue, Auburn, NE 68305
Parenting education home visiting program for parents who are expecting a baby or have a baby three months of age or younger.

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Lutheran Family Service - Council Bluffs

3112 West Broadway, Council Bluffs, IA 51501
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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Webster County Public Health Department

723 1st Avenue South, Suite 220, Fort Dodge, IA 50501

Offers family support services to all pregnant women and families with children ages 5 and under.  Nurses and Family Support Workers make home visits to provide information on pregnancy, caring for a new baby, toddler development, family life skills, and referrals to community resources.

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VNA Health Care - Joliet

1501 West Jefferson Streeet, Joliet, IL 60435

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

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Lutheran Services in Iowa - Sioux City

1308 South Cleveland Street, Sioux City, IA 51106

Offers the following: family programming for parents of children ages 0–5 twice a week; child care during sessions; parent room for breaks; guest speakers; parent discussions on child growth; evening parenting classes in fall and spring that meet DHS rules; in-home visits for families with parenting stress; parenting strategies; community resource connections; group sessions; skill-building and education; early childhood prevention for high-risk mothers from pregnancy through age five; transportation; developmental checks; referrals; case management; focus on child safety, child health, and positive parenting.

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Nebraska Children's Home Society Children and Family Center

3549 Fontenelle Boulevard, Omaha, NE 68104

- Self-Sufficiency: Provides voluntary home visitation services to parents and kinship caregivers seeking to build the skills and mindsets necessary for the complex task of moving themselves out of poverty and finding their path toward upward economic mobility. Utilizing the Mobility Mentoring service model, 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: Serves low-income pregnant women 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.

- Parents As Teachers: Early childhood home visiting program that improves the early learning, development, and health of babies and toddlers starting as early as pregnancy through kindergarten.

- In home visiting: 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.

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Crittenton Child Development Center - Le Mars

601 12th Street SW, Le Mars, IA 51031

Parent support and parenting education.

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Marion County Public Health Department

2003 North Lincoln Street, Knoxville, IA 50138

Provided to ensure the health of mothers in the Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Wayne Counties. Services include finding health care coverage, finding a health care provider or dentists, education to promote a healthy pregnancy, evaluate emotional stress and family adjustment to pregnancy and parenting, oral health services, arranging transportation to medical and dental appointments, making doctor appointments, social support and guidance, nutrition education and home visit after delivery of the baby. Helps to ensure the health of children, birth to 21 years of age in Appanoose, Clarke, Decatur, Jasper, Lucas, Marion, Monroe, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Wayne Counties. Services include help locating a doctor or dentist, finding health care coverage -Title XIX or Hawk-i, reminders for child/children medical and dental checkups, making doctor appointments, help to find community resources, health education and support, oral health services, help with payments for physical and dental exams, blood lead testing, immunizations 0-6 years, 7-18 years and adult immunizations.

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Mills County Public Health

403 Railroad Avenue, Glenwood, IA 51534

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.

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Early Head Start Burwell Calamus

237 I Street, Burwell, NE 68823

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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Crittenton Child Development Center - Orange City

1103 Lincoln Circle, Orange City, IA 51041

Parent support and parenting education.

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United Way of the Midlands