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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.

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.

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.

Provides in-home visitation program that helps families who are facing considerable stress from daily parenting concerns. Staff visit families in their home to provide parenting strategies and community resource connections that help create a healthy environment for their children.

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.

Promotes healthy growth and development in young children.

Parenting skills 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.

Provides in-home visitation program that helps families who are facing considerable stress from daily parenting concerns. Staff visit families in their home to provide parenting strategies and community resource connections that help create a healthy environment for their children.

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.

Offers a home visiting program which includes screenings, group connections, playgroups, family literacy events, and field trips.

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.

We offer home-visits, group-based parent education programs, and prenatal services.

Offers homemaker services, including housekeeping, laundry, vacuuming, essential shopping, errands, and child care and parenting skills.

Provides a voluntary home visiting program that provides family support and coaching for expectant parents and parents of young children ages 0-3. 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.

- Health screenings.

- Developmental testing.

- Family-centered activities.

- Child care referrals.

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.

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.