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Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Centers for Independent Living
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Disease/Disability Registries
Specialized Information and Referral
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers services to older adults including information and referral to community resources, home delivered meals, support groups, counseling, and caregiver resources.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Aging/Older Adult Support Groups
Home Delivered Meals
General Counseling Services

Caregiver Burnout: Tips to Prevent and Manage Stress

Recognize the causes and symptoms so you can get the help you need: http://www.aarp.org/caregiverstress


AARP Caregiver Life Balance Tips

How to give yourself the caregiving break you need. Advice on how to avoid burnout while juggling family caregiving with work and childcare responsibilities: www.aarp.org/caregiving/life-balance


Respite Care: How to Give Yourself the Caregiving Break You Need

Learn what services are available to help, such as volunteers, day programs, and aides: www.aarp.org/respitecareplan


AARP's Online Community

An online forum to connect with others that have the same interests, including caregiving, games, entertainment, home and family, money, and many more topics of interest: www.aarp.org/caregivingcommunity


AARP Local Pages

Features online and local events: https://local.aarp.org


Healthy Living

Suite of web-based health tools to help caregivers stay healthy and plan ahead. Tools can help calculate BMI, decode Medicare summary notices, and estimate the cost of long term care: www.aarp.org/healthtools

Care to Talk

Virtual platform of discussion topics meant to spark meaningful dialogue between caregivers and care recipients and address important life issues and long-term healthcare plans: Caretotalk.aarp.org

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Specialized Information and Referral

Provides a wide variety of independent living services for individuals with disabilities with the objective of helping them to function more independently in family and community settings and to secure and maintain appropriate employment. Services may include information and referral services, referrals for attendant care, attendant recruitment and training programs, independent living skills training, assistance in meeting housing and transportation needs, peer counseling, transition from institutions into the community, deflection from institutional placement, transition from youth to adult services, and advice and guidance regarding legal rights and benefits eligibility.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Helps seniors, individuals living with a disability, and their families by providing referrals to organizations and agencies for needed services and programs.
Provides information and referrals to available resources in the Polk County area. Information and referrals can include food programs, energy assistance, chore services, and Medicare and Medicaid information. Volunteer opportunities, educational, recreational programs and nutrition information is also available. Coordinates seven neighborhood-based senior centers and nine meal sites throughout Polk County. Contact your local community center for more information.

Veterans Home Benefits Guide (Digital)

Connects veterans, military families with financial assistance programs to modify their homes: www.aarp.org/VetsHomeBenefits


Financial Workbook for Veterans and Military Family Caregivers

A 44-page workbook providing practical caregiving guidance on health, housing, and money management for veterans and military caregivers: www.aarp.org/vmfcaregivermoney


AARP Military Caregiving Handbook

Guide for veterans, service members, and their families that addresses the unique issues faced by military caregivers. Includes information, resources, and checklists: https://www.aarp.org/caringforvets(English) or https://www.aarp.org/cuidarveteranos (Spanish)

Job Search Toolkit

Leverage military service, skills, and experience to navigate a career transition: www.aarp.org/vetsjobtoolkit

Job Center

Learn how to leverage unique skills to drive a career forward: www.aarp.org/vetsjobcenter

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Specialized Information and Referral

Provides emergency housing and supportive services to homeless individuals and families. Services include case management, information and referral to community resources, education assistance, workshops, and access to food pantry.


Cold Shelter available on nights when it is 20F or below.

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Food Pantries
Homeless Shelter
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Specialized Information and Referral
Assists individuals in securing needed information and/or services that cannot be offered through the agency.

Provides services, advocacy, options counseling, and information and referral to older adults, those with disabilities, and family caregivers living in Adams, Brown, Calhoun, Hancock, Pike and Schuyler Counties in Illinois.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Area Agencies on Aging

Provides access to a 24 hour helpline with care coordination specialists offering resource referrals, case management and support to Illinois Veterans, family members, or caregivers experiencing emotional challenges associated with PTSD, mild TBI, Military Sexual Trauma (MST), stress, anxiety, depression, addiction and substance abuse.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Veteran/Military Hotlines

Provides service coordination and advocacy services to children and adults with development delays and/or disabilities. Also provides case coordination for participants in the Brain Injury program through the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services.

Developmental Disabilities Services may include:

- Pre-Admission Screening (PAS): Pre-admission screening to determine eligibility, secure provider agencies, and obtain funding.

- Bogard Individual Service Coordination: Ensure active treatment for seniors in nursing facilities. This service is for individuals from a closed lawsuit in 1988. No new individuals are eligible for this service.

- Case Coordination: Information and referrals; community awareness and education; enrollment of individuals on the PUNS statewide waitlist for services.

- Individual Services and Support Advocacy (ISSA): Assistance with accessing services to meet the individual's needs; act as advocates for the individual.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Assistance with information, referral, distribution and completion of applications for the Food Assistance Program (formerly food stamps).

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Certificates/Forms Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Provides outreach, information, and assistance, connecting seniors to benefits and services to help them maintain their independence in the community. Assists seniors in becoming aware of the many government programs they are potentially eligible for and may provide assistance in applying for those benefits, such as Medicaid, Medicare, Food Stamps, etc.

Services include:

-- Access/screening.

-- Anger Management Counseling.

-- Caregiver Connection.

-- Crisis stabilization services.

-- Case Management.

-- Child Outpatient Therapy.

-- Family Counseling.

-- Linkage with psychiatric medical services.

-- ADHD Services and Resources.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Caregiver Counseling
Juvenile Delinquency Diversion Counseling
In Person Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Case Management
Mental Health Evaluation
Anger Management
Adolescent/Youth Counseling

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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Benefits Screening
Rent Payment Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Supported Employment
General Household Goods Provision
Respite Care Subsidies
Prevocational Training
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Transportation Expense Assistance
Assists Nebraskans who are 60 years and over or have a disability and/or their representatives in accessing services and supports to allow the person to live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice. ADRC staff are available by phone or in person to assist in accessing resources based on the person's needs and preferences. This may include providing information and referrals for services such as housing, personal care, transportation, food and nutrition, public benefits, therapies, employment, etc.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Aging and Disability Resource Centers

Restorative service for diverting youth at risk of involvement with the criminal justice system. Services include:

-- Linkage and referral

-- Development of critical decision making skills

-- Emotional literacy development

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.

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Caregiver/Care Receiver Support Groups
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Home Delivered Meals
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Homemaker Assistance
Adult In Home Respite Care
Medicare Information/Counseling
Children's In Home Respite Care
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Area Agencies on Aging
Information, referral, advocacy, and follow-up services available.

Offers home visits to seniors and their families informing them of programs that will enable seniors to remain as independent and living at home as long as possible. The senior information specialist assists with benefits applications, answers questions concerning Medicare, supplemental insurance, help at home, and more.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Assists Nebraskans who are 60 years and over or have a disability and/or their representatives in accessing services and supports to allow the person to live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice. ADRC staff are available by phone or in person to assist in accessing resources based on the person's needs and preferences. This may include providing information and referrals for services such as housing, personal care, transportation, food and nutrition, public benefits, therapies, employment, etc.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Aging and Disability Resource Centers

Offers individualized services and supports to families who have a child with a developmental disability or other special needs. Offering to assist families in understanding systems of support that are often fragmented and difficult to access. Provides, information and referrals, respite services, parenting skills classes, support groups and social opportunities.

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Specialized Information and Referral
Families/Friends of Individuals With Health/Disabilities Related Issues Support Groups
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Children's In Home Respite Care
Parenting Skills Classes
Disease/Disability Information
Promotes early identification of developmental, behavioral, or educational concerns, then links children and families to community-based services and supports.

A care coordinator will listen, provide support, and assess the needs of the child and family. The coordinator can connect families with free screenings to help provide insight on the child's developmental and behavioral skills.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Specialized Information and Referral
Assists Nebraskans who are 60 years and over or have a disability and/or their representatives in accessing services and supports to allow the person to live as independently as possible in the setting of their choice. ADRC staff are available by phone or in person to assist in accessing resources based on the person's needs and preferences. This may include providing information and referrals for services such as housing, personal care, transportation, food and nutrition, public benefits, therapies, employment, etc.

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Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Specialized Information and Referral