Offers interim/respite care for family members caring for seniors, providing physical activity, social stimulation, emotional connections, and more.

Services include:

-- Transportation (provides rides to and from the facility for clients)

-- Nutritious meals (breakfast snack, catered lunch and afternoon snack)

-- Medication reminders

-- Mental stimulation games: bingo, dominoes, chess, cards, puzzles, etc.

-- Discussion groups (books, Bible study and current events)

-- Light physical fitness such as Zumba, stretching, stationary bikes, chair exercise etc.

-- Therapy station - physical and occupational

-- Crafts (painting, knitting, etc)

-- Activities such as balloon volleyball, pool billiard, nature walks (weather permitting), karaoke and sing along, musical performances, gardening, movies

-- Salon day

-- Holiday and birthday celebrations

-- Field trips, and more.

Provides support services to individuals caring for a Veteran with serious illness or disabilities. For qualifying individuals, access to training, counseling, or respite care may be available.

Allows caregivers time to self-care while providing additional supports in the home. Helps connect families caring for seniors at home with needed respite and in-home services.

Additional respite hours may be available to caregivers of someone with dementia living at home, through Alzheimer's and Dementia Care grant funding.

Offers an online caregiver self-assessment questionnaire. Caregivers may talk to a caring professional who can help them better understand and deal with the challenges they are facing in their role as caregiver. The questionnaire uses the results to determine the kind of help the caregiver needs and creates a customized plan to reduce caregiver stress and burnout.

Caregiver Specialists are available to coach family members and friends who are caring for an older adult.

Provides temporary and/or periodic relief for a caregiver of an impaired person. The program is designed to assist caregivers in the home and allow the client to remain in his/her home for an extended period of time. Short-term nursing facility stays are also available. The program is funded through the East Central Illinois Area Agency on Aging. Services include household help, companionship, temporary nursing home stays, adult day care, and home health care.

Provides personal care, homemaker services, help with the activities of daily living, companionship, and respite care.

Serves all Nebraska adoptive families - international, domestic infant, private, step-parent and foster adoptive families. Advocates for the special interests of adoptive families and connects families to one another. Six core services include Permanency Support Services, Respite Care Connections, Parent2Parent Network, Mental Health Connections, Training, and Support Groups and Family Activities.

Case management available for up to 180 days. Individualized family plan designed and implemented with the family's input.

Assists post adoptive and guardianship families in locating formal and informal respite providers and can provide financial assistance for respite services (limited). All families who receive financial respite assistance through the program will be asked to attend a training.

Mentoring in partnership with Nebraska Foster and Adoptive Parent Association (NFAPA) to assist in providing peer mentoring services to post adoptive and guardianship families.

Mental health services - locates and refers families to professional post adoption and guardianship providers.

Training opportunities that can support skill building on issues related to adoption.

Support groups and networks for families and youth where social networks can be created and peer support can be achieved.

Provides walk-in/referral crisis respite services for individuals who are currently experiencing a mild-moderate behavioral health crisis.

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.

Offers to match volunteers with caregivers of disabled veterans who are in need of respite, education, and support. The volunteers are trained and supported via monthly trainings. Services can be provided directly to disabled veterans in absence of a caregiver and may include peer support, case management, and concrete needs such as food.

Senior Care Options program available to older Nebraskans who are considering admission to a nursing home and may be eligible for Medicaid assistance. Clients are screened according to a standardized assessment process developed by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Care Managers arrange for services, which allow older adults to live as independently as possible, for as long as possible.

Housekeeping and supportive services to include grocery shopping, cleaning, laundry, transportation and personal care.

Family Caregiver Support for those caring for an aging adult or grandparents caring for a minor child. Provides information, assistance, support group, respite care, and supplemental services.

Home delivered meals are provided to homebound by reason of illness, disability or isolation. The meals meet 1/3 of the daily dietary recommended needs of adults 60 years and over and the requirements of the Older Americans Act and state and local laws.

Public benefit services, legal assistance, education, Medicare filing, and volunteer training through SHIIP.