I/DD Services & Shared Living Providers in Grand Island, NE

The team members at Hands of Heartland are extremely grateful for the support pouring in from the communities where we support people with I/DD. We’ve been working to expand our mission gradually since we opened our doors in Bellevue for the first time in 1998, with the goal of ensuring we empower and enrich the lives of individuals with I/DD and their families by providing pathways to empowerment and independence to which they might not otherwise have access.

As we continue on our path to becoming Nebraska’s primary provider of services to people with I/DD, we are proud to announce that we opened our doors at 1719 S. Locust Street in Grand Island, NE in November 2020. We are also providing our habilitative mission to the nearby cities of Hastings, Kearney, and the surrounding communities.

We build our community services around the same pillars that we’ve built other Hands of Heartland’s services: people with developmental disabilities are first and foremost people who deserve to live, find employment, have access to educational resources, and be able to grow, develop, and interact with others throughout the community. Bringing this mission to reality requires that individuals with developmental disabilities be provided with access to resources that empower, enable, and support them in pursuing these experiences that they might not otherwise be able to access.

At Hands of Heartland, our services are designed to support habilitation at every stage of life and development. Our programs include, but are not limited to:

• Residential Habilitation programs include various residential support configurations depending upon the person’s specific needs. From continuous residential to independent living and supported family arrangements, we have the team and expertise to show that we’re the right service provider to fit the needs of any individual.
• Community Employment Services are available to those who have the ability to work in a professional setting with the proper accommodations. Our team of professionals works with local businesses to identify and build opportunities that are safe and can be modified to meet a variety of needs while providing benefits to local businesses, the community, and people receiving our supports as well as their families.
• Vocational Rehabilitation programs bridge the gap between our residential and employment programs, helping people to learn new skills, navigate interpersonal relationships in a variety of settings, and in a general sense seek to be successful in their pursuit to work side-by-side with coworkers, employers, and other people in our habilitative programs.

Being the primary caregiver to a person with a disability to be challenging when providing constant care and support. In the long-term care industry, we offer respite services, which provide opportunities for caregivers to handle their personal matters and take a mental-health break from their long-term care responsibilities. Hands of Heartland understands how crucial respite care services are to the health and wellbeing of both caregivers and the people for whom they provide support. We provide a number of respite care options to caregivers in the communities where Hands of Heartland operates across Nebraska, and we’re happy to welcome the caregivers of Grand Island under that umbrella.

Since our inception in 1998, Hands of Heartland has been putting a spin on the managed care industry, in the hopes of creating opportunities for development and habilitation in people with I/DD that humanizes the process and bridges and facilitates acceptance with the local community. In order to accomplish this very tricky feat, we’ve come to rely on three key strategies:

• We endeavor to hire the most professional and experienced team members in the industry.
• Hands of Heartland is working hard to maximize exposure of the brand across Nebraska by opening as many locations as possible. Grand Island is the latest, but it won’t be the last.
• We build our services from a foundation of compassionate care. We truly believe all individuals should have equal access to opportunities in life to experience, live, work, and not only survive, but thrive and improve. We never take the approach that someone we are supporting cannot do something, but rather focus on ways to open the paths to how they can.