What are KVC’s In-Home Services? 

We provide families with crisis management, in-home therapy, skill-building and connection to community resources. We stabilize families, keep children safe at home or support reunification and promote long-term child and family wellbeing. Our caring, highly trained staff diligently match the level of intervention to the level of need in the family. 

Families who complete our intensive in-home program will experience enhancements in the following evidenced-based protective factors: 

• Parent-child nurturing and attachment 
• Knowledge of parenting skills and child development 
• Parental resilience 
• Social connections 
• Concrete supports for parents 
• Child social and emotional competence 

Helping Families in Their Home 

Our Intensive In-Home Services (IIHS) are delivered by a team made up of a clinician and skill builder in each families’ home, which is where services are most effective. This also allows us to provide services at times most convenient to the family. This in-home model removes barriers to receiving treatment by eliminating the need to travel to an office, coordinate childcare or take time off from work.

Who is eligible for in-home services? 

At-risk youth and families are referred by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Division of Children and Family Services, the Office of Juvenile Services and Lancaster County Diversion. 

We provide Intensive In-Home Services (IIHS) within a 75-mile radius of Omaha and Lincoln, serving the following counties:

• Lincoln Area: Lancaster, Gage, Seward, York, Jefferson, Saline, Fillmore, Johnson, Nemaha, Saunders and Butler
• Omaha Area: Douglas, Sarpy, Washington, Dodge, Saunders and Butler

What services do we provide? 

Intensive Family Preservation 

All families experience tough times. Whether they are related to substance abuse, trauma, physical or mental illness or behavioral problems, these challenges can be difficult for a family to overcome on their own and can impact a family’s ability to stay safely together. The primary goal of KVC’s Intensive In-Home Services is to keep children safe in their family’s home. 

Intensive Family Preservation provides therapeutic and skill-building interventions to improve parenting capacity and family functioning, improve children’s wellbeing and prevent unnecessary placement and/or safely facilitate the reunification of children with their families. This is an intense, brief and effective service to create rapid, sustainable change in the family unit by focusing on interventions that build on family strengths in order to eliminate safety threats or reduce risk.  

Intensive Family Reunification 

All children deserve a safe and loving home. Unfortunately, there are times when caregivers cannot fully meet a child’s safety needs, and it becomes necessary to temporarily remove the child from their home. When this occurs, our goal is to help caregivers and children reunify by enhancing protective factors and reducing the risk factors that led to the child being removed from the home. 

When children have been placed out of the family home for at least 90 days and it is time to work towards the reunification process, the KVC IIHS teams can assist families by addressing the safety threats that led to a child’s removal and out of home placement through skills-based intervention through the Intensive Family Reunification service.  

Our skills-based interventions seek to leverage and enhance strengths and mitigate risk by improving parenting capacity as well as children’s wellbeing. Our team will work closely with the children and their caregivers to ensure that the family possesses the skills necessary to manage risk and promote wellbeing. We meet at times convenient to the family and adjust the intensity to meet each family’s unique needs. This service includes multiple in-person direct contacts and indirect contacts.  

Family Support  

This service provides face-to-face support to children, parents and families, teaching skills that promote wellbeing, protective factors and resilience. Family Support services help families overcome challenges, build meaningful connections, provide practical support and strengthen social and emotional skills.

Safe & Connected™ 

We provide this path toward reunification through our Safe & Connected™ model, which aides our team in: 

• Performing comprehensive and balanced assessments 
• Treating all individuals with dignity and respect 
• Collaborating with other case professionals 
• Including the child and family in meaningful ways 

Watch this video to learn more about our Safe & Connected™ model:

What’s the Process? 

• Initial Meeting: A member of our team will meet with a family at their home within 24 hours of receiving authorization for services. We will create a safety plan and begin planning for discharge. Our goal is for the family to welcome us back, building a relationship that supports lasting change.
• Ongoing Services: A family will meet with KVC In-Home Specialists and Clinicians frequently and at times that are most convenient for the family. 
• 24/7 Crisis Support: We are available to the families we work with 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 

If you have any questions, contact KVC at (402) 880-4926 or email NEClinicalandPreventionReferrals@kvc.org 

Resources:

• How Therapy Helps Us Build Understanding and Break Down Barriers
• Outpatient Therapy Services: Bringing Care to Families
• Children’s Mental Health Warning Signs To Watch For