Healthy Families Project

Healthy Families Project currently has a Parent Partner Program providing service to Lancaster County and the Region V area. HFP utilizes parent peer-mentors (Parent Partners) to work with other parents in the process to help them help their families. The Parent Partners work both with families who have professional services in place and those who are trying to locate services and supports for their families. The parent partners work with families who are referred to the Mentoring Program either through personal referrals or from professional service providers, both within the wraparound process and without the wraparound process, to help find community resources and supports.

Our Services

Over the past year, the parent partners have worked to help families in all of the following ways:

In the courtroom before and after court, providing support and help to understand court documents
Provide support to comply with requirements of the court documents
At school and IEP meetings, and throughout the IEP process
To go along with families to Housing Authority to help families apply for housing
To help families get housing costs reduced
To help families locate housing and fill out applications for housing rentals
To provide transportation to work or to a meeting (i.e. court, therapy, team meeting)
To locate furniture and access household items
To locate resources or be a resource for clothing (through items donated for families within HFP program)
To locate resources for permanent transportation
To help families get reinstatement of drivers license
To go along to provide support at doctors appointments
To locate doctors and funding to meet medical needs
To locate food baskets
To help with the application process for food stamps
To help with the application process for developmental disabilities programming
To locate and apply for jobs
To locate needed services
To locate funding to pay for needed services
To locate funding sources to pay for medications
To plan time management
To work on boundry issues
To work on house cleanliness
To write budgets
To work on parenting goals (identified by providers and parents themselves)
To help families outside of any wraparound program develop safety plans for their youth and family
To access legal services
To connect with Vocational Rehabilitation
To listen and provide an understanding ear
To offer resources, information, and ideas for success throughout systems
To stand up for their families at meetings
To locate payment assistance
To locate basic needs (clothing, food, etc)
To help facilitate meetings or work as a liason between professionals and families
To help families effectively communicate their needs and concerns
To help families meet goals related to completing substance abuse treatment
Attend AA and NA meetings with families
To be a partner in recovery with families
To help families interact in a positive manner with their children
To help families communicate positively with professional service providers
To facilitate conflict resolution within families
To work with families to plan visitation scheduling
To understand the "Rights and Responsibilities" of the NHSS-Protection and Safety system
To provide help to meet specific and individual family needs such as gas for auto, diapers for baby, etc

To request assistance, please contact Healthy Families Project at 402-441-3805 or hfp@windstream.net.
The process to enroll is as follows:

CLICK HERE to download the HFP referral form
Be sure to include all contact information on the referral
Send the form to: Healthy Families Project, 2202 S. 11th Street, Suite 226, Lincoln, NE 68502