YSS prepares youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.

Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention

YSS prepares youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.

Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention

Child/Adolescent immunization program, communicable disease control, disaster preparedness, community health services.

Health promotion and disease prevention education.

Emergency preparedness.

Substance abuse prevention coalitions.

West Nile virus surveillance.

Referrals.

Immunizations.

Worksite Wellness including on-site employee health screenings and wellness programs.

School-based youth oral health program.

Gundersen Palmer offers health education for the general public and smoking cessation for all age groups.

Educational presentations on tobacco, second hand smoke, smoke-free living, quitting smoking, and Latino specific information. Apartment tenant assistance to make apartments smoke-free, as well as technical assistance to property managers/landlords to increase smoke-free housing options within their properties.

Tobacco cessation counseling and treatment.

Women's tobacco educational support group in English and Spanish (Latinas, Tabaco, y Cancer group).

Offers Freedom From Smoking classes available to anyone in the community interested in quitting tobacco products. Meeting with a small group ensures personal attention from the facilitator and provides support from others who are in the same situation.

For 2024, class dates are Feb 20, 27, March 5, 12, 19, 26, and April 2.

Offers public health emergency preparedness, Alert Iowa notification, community health navigation services, oral health screenings, disease surveillance and investigation, health education, homemaker services, immunizations, lead poisoning prevention screenings and assessment, maternal health education, tobacco use prevention and control, blood pressure checks and tuberculosis screenings.

YSS prepares youth to make healthy choices through prevention and education programs relating to substance use, adolescent pregnancy, and suicide prevention. These services provide early awareness, intervention, and out-of-classroom support to give youth the tools they need to stay on the right path.

Programs include:
Substance Use Prevention
Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
Suicide Prevention

Tobacco resources including free and confidential counseling available 24 hours a day.

Coaching is also available online. After enrolling in the program, participants will receive information about how to access Web Coach. The program offers e-learning tools, social support, and information about quitting. Participants can interact with other people trying to quit or with Quit Coaches.

A free QuitNow mobile app is also available.

Medically based health, wellness, and fitness center.

Fitness classes including exercise, aerobics, relaxation, yoga, aquatic, and cycling. Specialty classes include cancer recovery and exercise, warm water arthritis therapy, Zumba, TRX; personal trainers and health coaches; lifestyle programs to help people with stress management, physical activity, nutrition, smoking cessation and more. Personal mentors provide professional expertise and motivational strategies.

Weight management and nutrition programs including LifeTracks medically supervised program for people who need to lose 50 pounds or more. LifePointe University helps children and their families with weight issues and nutrition consultations.

Cancer recovery programs.

Rehabilitation/medical services, offered with physician referral (hours vary), include physical therapy, warm water therapy, anticoagulation clinic, cardiac rehabilitation, chest pain/angina and heart failure therapy, pulmonary rehabilitation, diabetes education that includes medical nutrition therapy, assistance with insulin management and/or insulin pump instruction and gestational diabetes, foot care clinic.

Spa services include massage therapy, facial and skin treatment, body treatments, pedicures, and medical spa.

Dermatologist on staff. Cosmetic services such as Botox, fillers, and acne treatment.

Public school district offices for Pre K-12 schools.

DRUG and Alcohol Free Youth program (DAFY).

Tobacco awareness and voluntary cessation group for students.

Tean-net assists pregnant teens and teen parents and encourages them to stay in school.

Friendship School / Student Friendship Program is a puppet program to promote better understanding and acceptance of disabilities.

Childhood immunizations, flu shots, education and home visits to teen moms, cancer screening on site, child psychologist on site, breastfeeding assistance, smoking cessation for pregnant women, TB treatment, help finding a doctor or dentist, help with finding medication or other care, Every Women Matters Education and Outreach, Denver Developmental Screening, and case management to reduce lead and other hazard exposure.

Free, confidential services for kids who want help quitting all forms of tobacco, including vaping. Participants receive five one-on-one coaching sessions, self-help and educational materials, and support by phone, text, or online chat.

Text "Start My Quit" to 36072 or go online to chat with a Coach.

Services include:
-- Child health services
-- Maternal health services
-- Home health care and homemaker services
-- Hospice care
-- Cancer screening for women
-- Health education, community education, and health planning
-- Immunization clinics for children and adults
-- Family planning services
-- Blood pressure checks
-- Disaster planning and preparedness
-- Tobacco cessation classes
-- Parent education classes
-- Home visits for children ages 0-5
-- Life Assist Emergency Response Alert
-- Public health nursing visits

Child/Adolescent immunization program, communicable disease control, disaster preparedness, community health services.

An eight week long program designed to help smokers kick the habit. With the help of a trained program leader, smokers meet in small groups to address the many aspects of quitting smoking. Group discussion, films, and handouts are used.

Offers information and resources for tobacco cessation.

Quitline Iowa is a toll-free, statewide tobacco use cessation telephone counseling hotline. Trained counselors provide callers information about health consequences of tobacco use, assistance in making an individualized quit plan, and on-going support through optional follow-up calls.

Childhood immunizations, flu shots, education and home visits to teen moms, cancer screening on site, child psychologist on site, breastfeeding assistance, smoking cessation for pregnant women, TB treatment, help finding a doctor or dentist, help with finding medication or other care, Every Women Matters Education and Outreach, Denver Developmental Screening, and case management to reduce lead and other hazard exposure.

A free public service to answer questions about cancer and help with smoking cessation. Program resources available to patients, family members or friends, health care providers and researchers.

Vaccines for adults and children.

Blood pressure screenings during business hours.

Disaster preparedness.

Tobacco cessation information.

Radon testing.

Preventive laboratory services.

Health education.

Childhood immunizations, flu shots, education and home visits to teen moms, cancer screening on site, child psychologist on site, breastfeeding assistance, smoking cessation for pregnant women, TB treatment, help finding a doctor or dentist, help with finding medication or other care, Every Women Matters Education and Outreach, Denver Developmental Screening, and case management to reduce lead and other hazard exposure.

Patient and family education programs for children with asthma.

Professional, patient, and public education programs for people with chronic lung disease.

Literature on asthma, tobacco, lung disease, and air quality.

Information and referral for respiratory care services.

Represent public interest in matters concerning lung health, particularly smoke-free environments and indoor air quality.

Omaha Asthma Alliance prevents and controls asthma through education, advocacy, and monitoring resources.

Open Airways program for schools and public education centers on environmental asthma triggers.

Toll-free help line for answers about lungs and smoking cessation.

Freedom from smoking resources: online, help line, and self-help guide.