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Free one on one health education to pregnant families or children enrolled by 3 months of age. Program staff helps with any concerns with parenting and provide information on community resources. Topics covered include pregnancy and prenatal care, newborn care, feeding and infant development, basic infant care, positive parenting, and family nutrition. The program works with the families weekly or every other week to learn to lessen the parenting stresses and develop skills to control their children's behaviors until the child is 5 years old.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Home visitation program for pregnant women and families with children ages 0-4. Prevention services such as health and development, school readiness, socialization, parent-child interaction, parenting and family skills, help locating local providers.
A home visitation program that provides parent education, family support, early intervention services and serves as a link to health care services.
Provides before and after school programs, family support programs, early childhood education, and youth programs.

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Parent Support Groups
Neighborhood Multipurpose Centers
Home Based Parenting Education
Youth Enrichment Programs
Offers a home visiting program for families from pregnancy to 4 years old. Screens the family for high risk conditions and characteristics that impact child growth and developmental health. Promotes optimal child development and health. Improves family coping skills. Child abuse and neglect prevention.
Evidence-based and trauma-informed program that provides in-home parent education and support to families involved with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.
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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Dental Screening
Blood Pressure Screening
Mammograms
Birth Control
Home Based Parenting Education
Foot Screening
Hearing Screening
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Dental Care
Pap Tests
Pregnancy Testing
Breast Examinations
WIC
Teen Family Planning Programs
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening

Provides parent support and education. Also provides doula support and monthly parent-child interaction play groups.

Programming includes:

-- Personalized weekly/bi-weekly home visits

-- Prenatal develop and pregnancy education

-- Developmental, social-emotional, hearing, and vision screenings

-- Resource and referral connections

-- Child and parent activities

-- Age-appropriate developmental activities

-- Family centered events

-- Parent lending library

-- New baby welcome gift

-- Home safety materials

-- Breastfeeding support with lactation consultants

Doula Support:

-- Personalized weekly home visits

-- Assistance with the creation of a "birth plan"

-- Support in preparing for labor

-- Education on childbirth and the postpartum period

-- Continuous support during labor and birth

Parent-Child Interaction Play Groups:

-- Participation in activities and story times that promote child development

-- Meet and interact with other parents

-- Create make-it and take-it activities

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Breastfeeding Support Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Childbirth Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
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

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.

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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Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Parenting Skills Classes
Home Based Parenting Education

Offers prenatal and mom support groups.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
Bright Beginnings provides support and education to pregnant women, parents of newborns, and families with children ages birth to 5. The program is voluntary but does require commitment on the part of parents to meet with assigned workers on a regular basis. A Family Support Worker (FSW) provides in-home visits to provide support, basic childcare, child development information, and parenting education through a curriculum-based program, and links the family to other health resources.

Genesis Family Connects offers a nursing visit to new moms and babies 2-3 weeks after delivery from the hospital. Focus on assessing family needs and connecting family to additional support services.

Nurse Family Partnership connects a nurse with a first time mom before 28-weeks gestation. The program is voluntary but does require commitment on the part of parents to meet with assigned nurses on a regular basis. A Registered Nurse provides in-home visits to provide support, medical education and assessment, child development information, and parenting education through an evidence -based program, and links the family to other health resources.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
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
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Family Preservation Programs

A voluntary home visiting program that helps new and expectant parents strengthen their family's functioning and reduce their risk for child abuse and/or neglect. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, and good parenting skills while providing support to the family.

Doula services are also available. This includes prenatal information and support, labor coaching, breastfeeding, postpartum depression support, and assistance in the early weeks after childbirth

Prenatal support groups are also available.

A voluntary home visiting program that helps new and expectant parents strengthen their family's functioning and reduce their risk for child abuse and/or neglect. The program provides guidance about child development, child safety, and good parenting skills while providing support to the family.

Doula services are also available. This includes prenatal information and support, labor coaching, breastfeeding, postpartum depression support, and assistance in the early weeks after childbirth

Prenatal support groups are also available.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Pregnancy/Childbirth Support Groups
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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Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Counseling
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Helping Services for Youth and Families provides professionally trained family educators who serve families with children ages birth to age three. In-home services provided include: Prenatal teaching and support, Certified breastfeeding support, Infant/child weight checks, Child passenger safety, Healthy, safe home environment checklist, Developmental assessments, Vision and hearing screenings, and Resource referral. Outside of the home parent-child play groups are offered providing social and networking opportunities for families. In addition parenting workshops are provided that focus on creating positive environments where a child can use their energy in successful ways and offering interventions tools for parents that are used by teachers in their child's classroom providing greater consistency for the child. Programs are available in English and Spanish.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Infant and Child Safety Education
Parent/Child Activity Groups
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Parenting Skills Classes

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
Skilled nursing, including wound care, dressing changes, post-surgery follow-up, IV's, diabetic education, patient teaching, and medication review/assist with administration.

Physical, occupational, and speech therapy services.

Home care aides are certified nursing assistants providing personal care services.

Homemaker services such as light housekeeping, laundry, and meal preparation.

Public health nursing offers immunization clinics, childhood dental screenings, childhood fluoride varnishes, maternal health education and services, health promotion visits (in-home safety evaluation, well-baby checks, breastfeeding assistance), emergency preparedness, community coalition representation, referral source for community based services, disease prevention activities, and community health education projects.

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Home Health Aide Services
Breastfeeding Support Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Physical Therapy
Communicable Disease Control
Emergency Preparedness and Response Planning
Homemaker Assistance
COVID-19 Immunization Clinics
Occupational Therapy
Speech Therapy
General Immunization
Home Nursing
Public Health Nursing
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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Early Childhood Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Child Development Classes
Home Based Parenting Education

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
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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Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Counseling
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

Offers a voluntary home visiting program that provides 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. The agency's trained professionals provide regular visits based on the family's needs, preferences, and schedules. Visits may be in-person or virtual.

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Home Based Parenting Education
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
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Family Preservation Programs