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Family Support Workers partner with parents to enhance protective factors within their families through the use of evidence based practices to achieve family permanency, safety, and well-being.

Provides Parenting Time/Supervised Visitation, Family Support Nebraska, and drug testing.

Intensive residential treatment with clinically managed high-intensity residential services including 24-hour monitoring and intensive treatment. Offers group treatment sessions, peer support groups, individual sessions, case management and other recovery support activities throughout treatment. Provides extended residential care with separate residential units for men and women in recovery.

Provides monthly financial assistance to persons who do not have adequate income or resources to provide for their own basic needs. Funds may be disbursed for specific basic maintenance needs such as shelter (rental/mortgage assistance), utilities, food, clothing, household supplies, personal essentials, and laundry.

General Assistance eligibility is re-determined monthly, by appointment, and as long as the recipient maintains his/her eligibility, they may continue to receive a monthly General Assistance grant.

Information line for anyone with questions about the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Offers COVID-19 diagnostic tests and immunizations, including Monkey Pox vaccines.

Provides a voluntary program for individuals receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to assist with skill development and employment. Services include job search support, structured job search activities, and classroom training, which includes computer literacy instruction to help participants learn or improve their skills in using computers, hardware, and various software applications.

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.

Provides hospital services, including primary care, specialty care, virtual care, and more.

Provides information about transportation options for individuals with epilepsy. Services may include reduced CTA fares or free ride programs for those who qualify. 

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.

Joint effort between Public Aid and Public Health to facilitate access to care; program serves income-eligible, pregnant women, and infants under the age of 1, although a limited number of fragile families with children over the age of 1 are also served.

Pediatric, obstetric, and dental referrals are provided; some funds for services are available through a primary care grant.

Provides disaster assistance with mobile feeding canteens, spiritual support services, and basic needs provisions. Can also help with cleaning supplies when available.

Provides library services which provides books, magazines, books on tape or CD, videos and DVDs. Also provides computers for public use.

Teen clinics provide sports and school physicals, chronic disease management, smoking cessation, and wellness and sick care. Both teen clinics focus special attention on reproductive health.

The teen clinics offer education about pregnancy prevention and birth control options including long-acting reversible contraception as well as screening, treatment and management for sexually transmitted diseases.

Medical clinicians discuss risky behaviors and provide confidential counseling. The teen clinics also offer education and counseling about topics including youth’s exposure to violence, injuries and accidents; sexual orientation; eating disorders; and bullying, social media and technology use.

Offers single-family housing programs that provide homeownership opportunities to low- and moderate-income rural Americans through various loan, grant, and loan guarantee programs. 

Additionally, these programs may include assistance for essential home repairs to eliminate health or safety hazards, improve security, or address major system upgrades and replacements such as plumbing, heating, or electrical systems. Services are available to individuals in rural areas with populations of 20,000 or fewer.