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Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels, to income eligible individuals who are planning to attend accredited Illinois University, community college, technical or vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Provides supportive services to victims of domestic violence, their children, and companion animals. Services for adults and children include emergency shelter (pet friendly based on availability), counseling, support groups, housing advocacy, legal advocacy (obtaining orders of protection), medical advocacy, children's services, and a 24-hr crisis hotline.

Food pantry offering perishable and non-perishable items. Toiletries and diapers provided when available.

Services may be used once every 30 days.

Pregnancy tests, confidential peer counseling, and pregnancy options counseling. Educational resources and community referrals.

Emergency lending items, such as maternity and baby clothes and supplies.

Earn While You Learn program to earn new baby items and furniture by participation in educational parenting class.

Healthy lifestyles program.

Public speaking.

STD testing and treatment.

Limited OB ultrasounds.

Provides in-home parenting support and education. In addition to using the Parents as Teachers Born to Learn curriculum, educations provide infant and child weight checks, breastfeeding education and support, prenatal teaching and support, healthy and safe home environment information, information on healthy child development and early brain development, and information about available community services.

Offers a free in home counseling program for children on Medicaid, ages 4-19, who need help improving behavioral skills. Provides in-home BHIS services out of all office locations. 

In cooperation with the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Census Bureau, the Labor Market Information division develops and provides timely workforce data for local, state, and national customers.

Research analysts collect and disseminate information about wages, labor availability, industrial and occupational projections, business staffing patterns and labor force demographics, among other topics.

Popular publications include H3 (High Wage, High Skill, High Demand) job rankings, monthly labor force and nonfarm employment data, and occupational and industry wages and employment projections.

Offers temporary refuge for lost, stray, or unwanted animals, facilitates adoptions of animals to new owners, and offers a variety of behavior training courses, fear free training, and pet education classes for pet owners. The Foster Program offers animals a temporary home for animals waiting on a forever home.

Federally-funded early childhood development program to increase school readiness of young children in low-income families.

Head Start is Partnered with the following schools and districts:

- Niobrara Public School (North Hwy 12, Niobrara, NE 68760)

- Norfolk Public Schools (2500 West Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701)

- Wisner-Pilger Public School (801 18th Street, Wisner, NE 68791)

- Pender Public School (609 Whitney Street, Pender, NE 68047)

Provides violence prevention programs to help youth in the community. Services include activities that assist youth in making positive decisions in their lives and promote safer communities. The program often partners with area schools to provide presentations, educational curriculum, and resources to prevent bullying, dating violence, suicide, physical aggression, and delinquency among youth.

Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes committed within the County.

Advises and represents the County Board and the elected and appointed officials of the County.

Assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection.

Goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Limited financial assistance provided to prevent rent eviction or utility disconnection. May also assist with rent or utility deposit, where appropriate. Utility assistance can also include cell phone bill help. 

First apply for assistance at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services (through ACCESSNebraska at www.accessnebraska.ne.gov) for an eligibility determination and referrals to community agencies with Letter of Eligibility, then schedule an appointment with the Community Service Coordinator.

Assists homeless teens with a safe, stable home, provides income adequate to meet their basic needs, and assists and directs in overcoming the problems that interfere with their ability to live independently.

As of 4/23/2026, no funding is available.  Not sure when funds will be available, please call back monthly.

Works to fill the “gaps” to help individuals and families overcome barriers to exiting homelessness. Services include completing the coordinated assessment, obtaining identification, employment, education, health, and other related expenses for resources that are otherwise unavailable in the community

Limited services may be available to help imminently homeless individuals obtain or retain a rental unit.

Offers fiction, non-fiction, and reference books, as well as videos. Downloadable ebooks and audio books are also available. See the website for the library's online catalog and for more extensive listing of services and offerings. Story time and computer basics classes are available. Winter and summer hours vary.