Child and Family Support Services
Outpatient Child and Family Services
Summary: Therapists work with youth and their families to assess and treat youth issues. The goal is to intervene before problems develop into more serious health and behavior issues.
Credentialed and experienced child and family psychologists and therapists assist children ages 6 months to 17 years. Working with parents, they develop treatment plans for youth who face many difficult problems, including Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), bed-wetting and soiling, anger management, bedtime problems and sleep disorders, out-of-control behaviors, poor peer relationships, learning challenges, anxiety and worry, phobias, depression, and habits. Psychologists and therapists create comprehensive approaches to treatment. They actively work with families, primary-care physicians, schoolteachers, and others to extend care beyond the “therapy hour.” This inclusive approach is used to ensure long-term success.
If you live in the Omaha area and you would like more information about Outpatient Child and Family Services, call (402) 498-3353.
Boys Town National Hotline 1-800-448-3000
Summary: A 24-hour, 7-day-a-week, toll-free national hotline that offers counseling to anyone, anytime, with a focus on children and families in crisis and in need of referral to community services. Boys Town National Hotline: 1-800-448-3000.
The Boys Town National Hotline was established in 1989 and receives more than 400,000 calls every year. Trained, professional counselors are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Callers’ problems range from relationship and parental discipline issues to depression and suicide. In crisis situations, counselors assist callers and provide community resources and emergency intervention. The Hotline provides referrals to agencies throughout the United States and responds to anyone in need of assistance, with a special focus on children and families. Anyone in a crisis situation can call 1-800-448-3000 for help anytime.
Common Sense Parenting®
Summary: A proven parenting program that helps parents develop new skills, enhance skills they already have, and appropriately discipline their children. Parents can attend classes or purchase books and videos they can learn from at home.
Boys Town’s Common Sense Parenting helps parents to proactively improve their family relationships and their effectiveness as parents. The program is an interactive, skill-based approach to parenting that teaches parents practical and effective ways to increase their children’s positive behaviors, decrease their negative behaviors, and help them learn appropriate alternative behaviors. Parents can attend a six-week or seven-week class. During each session, parents are taught skills that can improve and enhance how they discipline and care for their children. In addition to classes, parents can purchase books and videos they can learn from at home.
Boys Town Press
Summary: A Boys Town support service that offers books, posters, audio and video products, and resources that educate, inform, guide, and instruct children and families and provide valuable information for professionals in child care and education.
The Boys Town Press provides proven, effective materials to parents, teachers, and others who need up-to-date skills and knowledge to work with children. It is the publishing division of Boys Town. Since 1994, the Press has produced books, posters, audio and video products, and other resources to assist children, parents, caregivers, educators, and professionals who work with youth and families. Many publications are based on proven educational, parenting, and youth care techniques used in Boys Town programs across the country. The Press also helps to market effective publications and materials produced by others. To purchase products or request a Boys Town Press catalog, call toll free 1-800-282-6657 or visit www.boystownpress.org.
Parenting.org
Summary: An online resource for parents that offers tips, advice, resources, and guidance.
Boys Town owns and operates the Web site, www.parenting.org. More than 50,000 parents view this online resource every month. This Web site contains practical skill-based materials and information. Parenting.org is a free service and offers tips, advice, resources, and guidance to parents and caregivers of children of all ages.