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Outreach Specialists assist uninsured families, children, and pregnant women in obtaining health care coverage and finding a doctor or dentist. Services include answering questions about available insurance options, assisting with completing Hawki or Medicaid applications, advocacy, community referrals, EveryStep Dental Voucher Program for children.
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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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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.
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Stepping Stone Family Services provides Therapy at their West Des Moines office but also provides school based therapy to all schools in Urbandale, in addition to Perkins and Carver Elementaries in the Des Moines school district.
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Offers homemaker services, including housekeeping, laundry, vacuuming, essential shopping, errands, and child care and parenting skills.
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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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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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Offers homemaker services, including housekeeping, laundry, vacuuming, essential shopping, errands, and child care and parenting skills.
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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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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.
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Family Support / Community Treatment Aide helps parents create a healthy and positive home environment. Ensures proper care, safety and guidance of children, creates alternative support systems, and achieves self-sufficiency. Specialists usually meet with parent, youth or the entire family in their home, school or community setting to provide education, assistance, crisis intervention and support.
Parent Assist Service assists parents with 'at risk' youth by educating them on how to set rules, expectations and consequences and by providing them with information to additional resources.
Parent education classes.
Drug testing.
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