Family Support Services
Individual Support
We offer individual support for parents and caregivers that focuses on self-sufficiency, childbirth and postpartum services, education and more.
Self-Sufficiency Support
Our self-sufficiency program provides voluntary home visitation services to parents and kinship caregivers. The program provides flexible one-on-one services to help participants make progress towards personal goals and access resources to meet identified needs.
Home Visiting Services
The Healthy Families America® (HFA) program serves low-income pregnant women, age 19 and older, living in Douglas County. Our Teen & Young Parent program is a teenage pregnancy program & service that serves pregnant and parenting teens, and young adults ages 25 and younger, residing anywhere within the Omaha-metro area, including Bellevue and Council Bluffs.
Within our home visitation programs, 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.
Nebraska Children’s Home Society is an affiliate of Healthy Families America® (HFA). HFA is the nationally-recognized, evidence-based home visiting program of Prevent Child Abuse America®
Esmeralda Bravo-Ramos
Healthy Families America Program Supervisor
402.541.3515
Kelly Pohlman
Healthy Families America Program Supervisor
402.253.5700
kpohlman@nchs.org
Ilissa Fern
Early Childhood Services Program Supervisor
402.238.6537
ifern@nchs.org