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Family STEPS is a Healthy Families America affiliate. This program provides in-home parenting education and supports for families prenatal and children birth to five years. Home visits provide guidance and support in parenting and many aspects including discipline. The frequency of visits are based on each family's needs, strengths, and circumstances with visits typically lasting 60 minutes. There is no cost to participate in this program.

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

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Parenting Skills Classes
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Based Parenting Education

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

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Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Home Based Parenting Education
Parent Support Groups

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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Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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.
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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Parenting Skills Classes
Prenatal/Postnatal Home Visitation Programs
Home Based Parenting Education

Offers family support services to all pregnant women and families with children up to age 5.

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.

Free and voluntary home visitation services to prenatal mothers and new parents utilizing the Healthy Families America model.


Home visitors share child development education and parenting support to enhance the parent/child bond. Families are connected to community resources and medical homes if needed. Screening and referral for developmental delays, substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health are also provided as part of the program.


Families are encouraged to enroll prenatally and can stay in services until the child reaches 3-5 years of age. Referrals to service can be made by any agency, health care provider, school or the client themselves.

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.

Parent support and parenting education.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Specialized Information and Referral
Home Based Parenting Education
Assist parents in caring for their child by making scheduled in-home visits. A family support worker may work with a family until a child reaches five years of age or until the family no longer request services.
Domestic violence program offers assessment and treatment. A domestic violence victim advocate is available.

Prevention and Support Services
1) Prevention Services include: New Parent Support Program that provides prenatal and postnatal assistance, education, in home visits by a community health nurse for parents of children 0-3 years of age
2) Marriage and family counseling
3) Classes: Anger Management, PREP (couple relationship skills training), Dads 101, Parent University (April)

Outreach to the military: training and briefings on intimate partner violence and child abuse awareness and prevention; needs assessments; collaboration with off-base agencies; referral resource for military families.

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Child Abuse Prevention
Anger Management
Abuse Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Home Based Parenting Education
Marriage and Relationships Counseling
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
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

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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Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance

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.

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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Family Preservation Programs
Parental Visitation Facilitation
Home Based Parenting Education
Voluntary, accredited, intensive home-visitation program for first-time new parents. Services focus on enhancing family functioning, teaching problem-solving skills, improving the family's support system, promoting positive parent-child interaction, and promoting healthy childhood growth and development. Parent education/support groups are available for participants.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
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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Early Childhood Education
Child Development Classes
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Home Based Parenting Education
Offers online activities for children and families, family resources for parents, and money management resources.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Personal Financial Counseling
Family Resource Centers/Outreach

Provides a free program for families with kids, ages 5 and younger, living in Dubuque County. At personal visits, children learn through play with provided materials and families get to connect through activities, games, and crafts. Families get information about every stage of child development and are invited to monthly groups to connect with other families.

Also offers annual screenings to make sure kids are developmentally on track and connect families to community resources. PAT partners with parents and caregivers to support them through their parenting journey.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Parenting Materials
Home Based Parenting Education

Provides support and education programming for children up to age 3, as well as current and expecting parents.

Programs include:

- Home visits

- Developmental screening

- Early childhood information and activities

- Parents and teen parents support groups

- Assisted resource and referral

- Parental information and support

- Playgroups

- Toy and book lending library

- Individualized family service plan

- Parenting education classes

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Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parent Support Groups
Pediatric Developmental Screening
Parenting Skills Classes
Early education and family support program free to all families with children prenatal to kindergarten entry. Parent educators provide home visits, developmental screenings, and resource and referral for early childhood resources in Harrison County. GetTogether meetings offered 12 or more times a year.

Bright Beginnings program for Harrison County families prenatally and with children under the age of three.

Child passenger safety program provides seat checks and education regarding car seats.

Diaper Bank, "No Child Wet Behind", for Harrison County families only.

Book and toy lending library for registered child care providers and early elementary teachers.

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Diapers
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Library Services
Home Based Parenting Education
Child Passenger Safety Education
Child Passenger Safety Seat Inspections
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

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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Early Childhood Education
Home Based Parenting Education
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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Home Based Parenting Education