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Cancer Wellness' monthly discussion groups allow patients and family members to share information with otherswith similar diagnoses. These groups focus on peer-to-peer sharing related to the physical aspects of living with the diagnosis. These groups are professionally facilitated and meet monthly on a drop-in basis.
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Driver Training
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Driving Evaluation
Disease/Disability Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Over half of employees have some type of disability. As individuals work to become more independent, staff can share experiences of having a disability, encountering and overcoming barriers to independence.
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Driver Training
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Driving Evaluation
Disease/Disability Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Driver Training
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Driving Evaluation
Disease/Disability Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Offers NAMI Peer-to-Peer (P2P) class for adults experiencing mental illness(es), including substance use disorder. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is an eight session course available completely FREE through the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Johnson County (NAMI JC).

P2P is taught by "Peers," which is how we refer to adults with mental illness at NAMI. Two or three trained Peer Instructors volunteer to teach the 2 hour per session, 8 week course. The class allows Peers to learn about common mental illness diagnoses, teaches effective ways to deal with them, and empowers attendees with Self Advocacy skills to get the best care.

Provides free one-on-one emotional support to adult cancer patients and their loved ones. Each volunteer is at least one year post-treatment or successfully undergoing maintenance therapies. They have faced more than 80 cancer types and speak 15 languages. Offers support from diagnosis, through treatment and into recovery.

The TACT (Talking About Clinical Trials) matches patients considering a clinical trial with trained volunteers who have participated in clinical trials.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Health/Disability Related Counseling
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
The Iowa Regional Autism Assistance Program (RAP) provides community-based clinical consultation, multidisciplinary care planning recommendations, and family to family support for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and their families. RAP team members who work with families include advanced registered nurse practitioners, registered nurses and family navigators. They use standardized tools to identify children at risk for ASD and help families find diagnostic services. RAP teams also help families access community-based services and supports to help meet their needs and goals. The Autism Support Program provides funding for Applied Behavior Analysis services to children under the age of 14 who are not eligible to receive services through Medicaid or private health insurance and who meet certain diagnostic and financial eligibility criteria.

Services

Service Cost Payment Assistance
Parent to Parent Networking
Pediatric Developmental Screening
Specialized Information and Referral
Peer-to-peer program connects newly diagnosed patients and their families with trained volunteers who have experienced blood cancer firsthand and understand the process.
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Driver Training
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Driving Evaluation
Disease/Disability Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Parent Resource Information and Support Meetings (PRISM) monthly support and educational / informational meetings for parents whose children (of any age) have disabilities. Educational classes for adults and teens with disabilities, call for reservations if child care is needed. Some transportation is available; call for information.

Parent to Parent Omaha offers parent to parent support for families of newly-diagnosed children with developmental disabilities.

Just Friends is a peer mentoring and friendship program that gives adolescents with developmental disabilities the opportunity to participate in social and recreational activities with adolescents who do not have developmental disabilities. Staff members provide support to participants, offer monthly social events and provide educational classes.

Best Buddies is a peer mentoring program for young adults with developmental disabilities. Through this program, young adults with developmental disabilities are matched to local college students and participate in social recreational activities. Individuals with disabilities experience friendships with their peers and feel included.

Recreational activities include STARS Basketball League and First Chapter Book Club.

Ultimate Life is a fee-based companion program in which Community Living Specialists (CLS) accompany adults with developmental disabilities to various activities. The program was created to provide opportunities for individuals to participate in the community in activities of their choosing with someone other than a parent and/or staff and consumers from residential settings.

Advocacy and referral source of information on developmental disabilities for the community. Provides disability awareness training for community groups as well as students in area colleges who are majoring in medicine, special education and related fields; provides a voice in the community for issues that affect people with developmental disabilities.

Services

Disease/Disability Information
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Peer to Peer Networking

Provides to veterans who have moved back into housing after being homeless. A team of veterans deliver furniture, food, and household items to help the veteran family transition into housing security.

Provides peer-support programming for military and veteran families as they move from active-duty life, transition to civilian life, and put down roots after military life. All programs are free to participants and are continuously evaluated and updated based on participant feedback to ensure they meet the needs of those they aim to serve.

Services

Peer Mental Health Support Services
Peer to Peer Networking
Military Family Support Groups
Stomach cancer awareness, funding, education, and support to patients, families, and caregivers.

Support services through Patient Resource Education Program (PREP). Mentors help others understand the diagnosis, staging, treatment options, clinical trials, side effect management, research, management of the disease, and more.

Services

Disease/Disability Information
Peer to Peer Networking
Center for Independent Living.

Information and referral for disability services.

Independent living skills training that will enable an individual with disabilities to remain in their home, or when transitioning into their first independent living.

Advocacy for individuals and systems that serve them.

Driver's Education School is DMV certified; provides evaluation of reaction time, visual perception, and behind the wheel skills. Education and training includes classroom and on-the-road instruction. Offers adaptive equipment evaluation and training.

Durable medical equipment rent/loan at Grand Island and Scottsbluff locations. Donations of equipment accepted.

Peer mentoring, where people with disabilities support each other in their daily lives.

Housing counseling assists people with disabilities in locating, acquiring, and maintaining safe, affordable, accessible housing.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Driver Training
Medical Equipment/Assistive Technology Donation Programs
Centers for Independent Living
Disability Rights Groups
Medical Equipment/Supplies
Specialized Information and Referral
Driving Evaluation
Disease/Disability Registries
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Peer-to-peer program connects newly diagnosed patients and their families with trained volunteers who have experienced blood cancer firsthand and understand the process.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Health/Disability Related Support Groups
Provides an open forum layout that serves as a safe space to youth to engage in a peer to peer setting.
Provides peer to peer support of exploitation survivors. Services are centered around recovery, rebuilding and relationships.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Peer Consultation Program: Matches up individuals with similar disabilities to empower each other through encouragement, support and socialization.
Peer to Peer Counseling: Offers the opportunity for individuals with disabilities to meet other individuals with the same disability or similar life challenges to discuss expression of problems, feelings and solutions. Independent living and advocacy skills are often other tools learned as a result of connecting with peers.
Reach to Recovery: Women currently facing breast cancer are paired with breast cancer survivors for moral support, literature and resources. Efforts are made to pair women with similar treatment courses and with similar life situations.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Program for children and families of children with special needs, includes networking.
Support for parents, family members, and those born with congenital heart defects. Specific services include: - Website and Facebook page for connecting online. - Family Support (by phone or in person). - A newsletter published quarterly. - Annual fall picnic for patients and families. - "Parent Survival Kit" information packet when children have surgery. - Megan's Lodge - Vacation spot for families of children with heart defects. - The Stella Wilson Memorial Scholarship for those born with a heart defect.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking
Disease/Disability Information
Peer to Peer Counseling: Offers the opportunity for individuals with disabilities to meet other individuals with the same disability or similar life challenges to discuss expression of problems, feelings and solutions. Independent living and advocacy skills are often other tools learned as a result of connecting with peers.
Reach to Recovery: Women currently facing breast cancer are paired with breast cancer survivors for moral support, literature and resources. Efforts are made to pair women with similar treatment courses and with similar life situations.

Services

Peer to Peer Networking