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Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Provides information and support for parents. Home visits are available by trained parent educators. Group meetings with other parents are also available.

Evidence-based and trauma-informed program that provides in-home parent education and support to families involved with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services.

Offers the following: family programming for parents of children ages 0–5 twice a week; child care during sessions; parent room for breaks; guest speakers; parent discussions on child growth; evening parenting classes in fall and spring that meet DHS rules; in-home visits for families with parenting stress; parenting strategies; community resource connections; group sessions; skill-building and education; early childhood prevention for high-risk mothers from pregnancy through age five; transportation; developmental checks; referrals; case management; focus on child safety, child health, and positive parenting.

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Developmental screening, connection to community resources, home visits, and monthly family socialization activities available for qualifying families.

Promotes healthy growth and development in young children.

Parenting skills education.

Childhood immunizations, some adult immunizations, flu, and Covid immunizations. Breastfeeding assistance and education, parenting classes, TB treatment, and assisting families in finding medical and dental care. Case management is provided to reduce lead and other household environmental exposures, such as Radon.

The maternal health program provides a home visit for mom and baby upon discharge from hospital, lactation consultation services and education on newborns, safe sleep and caring for yourself and baby.

Eligible individuals can receive nutrition education, referrals to community services, and vouchers for nutritious foods. Additionally, Peer Educators are available to provide breastfeeding education and support to pregnant and postpartum women enrolled in the Nebraska WIC program. Individuals interested in learning more about the WIC program can call for information.

Family Support Services specialists provide in-home and community educational and support services to assist with parenting and home management problems that place children at risk of abuse or neglect.

Intensive Family Preservation is a response to a family crisis that may, without intervention, result in the removal of children from the home. Services are varied but may include help with parenting strategies, relationship issues, communication skills, anger management, school problems, behavior problems, and life skills.

Parenting Time services are provided to children who have been removed from their biological family’s home and are now allowed supervised visits with a member of their biological family. Activities include teaching or modeling parenting skills, reinforcing behavioral management skills and teaching coping skills. Specialists help families strengthen bonds by identifying issues that affect the family’s relationships by observing and assessing visits. Specialists also provide information to assist with permanency plans for the child.

Family Support helps build families through strength-based activities such as developing appropriate social skills, teaching parenting and nurturing, creating family bonding, teaching awareness of boundaries, developing self esteem, seeking community resources, seeking employment, and teaching home economics.

Offers an in-home nurturing parent program that provides in home family counselors for families with children on Medicaid and who have an assessment determining a diagnosis. The lessons include understanding feelings, alternatives to spanking, praising children and their behavior, ages and stages of growth, the philosophy and practices of nurturing parenting, and learning positive ways to deal with stress and anger. 

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Offers help to first and second-time parents managing the demands of caring for a child during the first three years of life. Family-support workers visit the home to encourage new parents by building on their strengths, emphasizing the joys of parenting and easing concerns with education and hands-on assistance. Services can start before the baby is born with prenatal home visits by a doula.

Voluntary home visiting program that strengthens families, supports healthy child development, and fosters resilient communities through evidence-based home visiting.

Improves child and family well-being, increases parent protective factors, and reduces risks associated with adverse childhood outcomes, such as behavioral/emotional difficulties, child maltreatment or family involvement with the child welfare system, poor academic performance, early substance use, and ongoing family instability.

Services are relationship-based, flexible, and tailored to each family's needs.

Provides free home visiting program to help parents in the role of being their child's first and most important teacher. Offers information on child development, positive discipline techniques, parenting skills, and other topics parents may feel are helpful. Link families with resources in the community. Services are provided in the home or a community location the family chooses. Also offers a preventive focus program to assist families with building protective factors and decreasing rate of DCFS intervention.

- Self-Sufficiency: Provides voluntary home visitation services to parents and kinship caregivers seeking to build the skills and mindsets necessary for the complex task of moving themselves out of poverty and finding their path toward upward economic mobility. Utilizing the Mobility Mentoring service model, the program provides flexible one-on-one services to help clients make progress towards personal goals and access resources to meet identified needs.

- Home Visiting Services: Serves low-income pregnant women while the Young Parent Support Program serves pregnant and parenting teens, and young adults ages 25 and younger, residing anywhere within the Omaha-metro area, including Bellevue and Council Bluffs.

- Parents As Teachers: Early childhood home visiting program that improves the early learning, development, and health of babies and toddlers starting as early as pregnancy through kindergarten.

- In home visiting: A trained Family Resource Specialist (FRS) provides weekly home visits where parents learn about the development of their child, from before birth through their fifth birthday. The specialist will also support each family’s goals and connect them with resources in the community to meet their needs.

Educational and social support services to assist parents with children birth to age five. Services include home-based early childhood education, home-based supportive services, group parenting meetings, developmental screening, and planned learning activities for children. Four-year-old free preschool program.

Early Development Network provides service coordination for children, birth to three years, with disabilities or special needs to access community services. Families are linked with developmental evaluations through the schools, Nebraska Health and Human Services programs, health resources, parent-to-parent support, and other supports and services as identified by the families' priorities.