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1506 Edgington Ave
 Eldora, IA 50627
Phone: (641) 939-8444
Phone: 1-877-283-0959
Fax: (641) 939-8450
M-F 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

 

 

 

P.O.P.S. - Positive Opportunities for Parents to Succeed

 

POPS is a home-based nurturing program for parents with children age 0-5. A trained nurse or family therapist will meet one-on-one with the family. The POPS program strives to:

  • Teach parents nurturing skills to help their children grow with a positive self-concept and self-esteem.
  • Promote healthy physical and emotional development of self and others.
  • Build empathy and awareness of the needs of others.
  • Increase awareness of the developmental needs of a child.
  • Help families to learn to spend quality time together and have fun doing it.
  • Empower parents to seek healthy and safe outcome for their children.
  • Find practical solutions to every day family problems.

(POPS visits may be billed to Medicaid or private insurance, but will not be billed to the client)

POPS Team

Nurses
  • Provide demonstrations, teaching and coaching of the parents to assure the child's health and safety in the home.
  • Support and Modeling of : Infant Care, Nutrition, Immunizations/Lead Testing, Home Safety, Infant Massage, Car Seat Safety, Toilet Training, Pregnancy Prevention, Communicable Disease, Finding Child Care, Stress Reduction, Dealing With Extended Family.
The Navigator
  • Provides bilingual support and assistance in accessing programs and services of Greenbelt Home Care and Hardin County.
The Family Therapist/Support Services Contact
Offers counseling and support that will:

  • Increase the safety of children in the home.

  • Increase positive relationships between child and parent, parent and parent.

  • Increase resource management knowledge of parents to assure a stable home that support the well-being of children.

  • Increase parent knowledge and access to social, emotional, and mental health services.

Family Support Tech

 

  • Will provide life skills training - the how's and why's of laundry, meal preparation and household organization

  • Will provide limited hours of Respite care allowing parents time away from a "colicky" baby

 

The "Team" can make referrals for CPR training, infant massage, car seat safety, child health clinics & immunizations, hawk-i, Head Start, Early Head Start, Parents as Teachers, WIC, physician and dental care, Child Care Resource Center, Early Access, food banks, mental health/substance abuse services, Seeds of Hope, Department of Human Services and HUD Housing.