What We Offer
Programs
One-on-One Support
Clients Meet with our client relations Director to support them in a strictly confidential setting to create goals and be encouraged to meet them. we want to build relationships with you, as well as provide professional assistance, such as finding a job, obtaining your GED, or working towards getting your license.
Family Life Group
This group is for the whole family and provides the opportunity to make core memories together. we go bowling, swimming, have picnics at the park, play bingo, and more! all activities are free and family life group typically meets the last Thursday of each month.
MomTime
A time for women to come together to connect, support, and encourage one another. MomTime discusses a variety of topics such as trauma, self-care, healthy relationships, communication, and more. rsvps are required. meets weekly at Helping Hands on Tuesday evenings at 7pm.
Man2Man
Helping Hands provides a #LifeTogether opportunity for men to come together to connect and talk about what it means to be a man of integrity, communication, relationship skills, and a variety of other topics. meets on Tuesdays at 7pm.
Parenting in Progress
Throughout this 16-week class, parents are offered the opportunity to build upon and learn new, nurturing skills and techniques. parents discuss empathy, attachment, discipline, routines, safety, and more. children learn similar concepts in our hand-in-hand children's programming! Through this whole-family approach we begin to see drastic changes in a family dynamic. We offer this class starting in January and in August.
Hand in Hand
Is our programming for children that provides a safe and positive environment where children enjoy fun-filled activities, developmental and creative play, and age-appropriate learning opportunities that are designed to go Hand-in-Hand with our parents' programs! Child Programming is offered during Parenting in Progress, MomTime, and Man2Man groups, for ages 2 months and older.
Working Parents Program
We understand that parents who are working may not have a lot of availability to meet with us one-on-one, so we offer this as a means to earn credits. parents can bring in their pay stubs and we will turn them into credits that they can use in our baby boutique.
Client Advocate Pairing
We can pair a client with a volunteer who steps in as a friend, mentor, and advocate.
Connect to Resources
Locating available assistance through community resources can be overwhelming, particularly in the midst of a crisis. Helping Hands staff is familiar with the various agencies and resources in our community and can help in the process of obtaining outside assistance.
Medical & Helpful Services
Pregnancy Tests
Helping Hands provides free medically-confirmed, confidential pregnancy tests, which helps as a mother seeks Medicaid and agency assistance.
Limited OB Ultrasounds
We provide free, limited OB ultrasounds up to 24 weeks, under the care of a Nurse and overseen by a medical physician, Ultrasound provides an early connection between baby and parents and bring pregnancy into reality, demonstrating the need for forward-thinking and goal-setting as they plan the future for their baby. Through ultrasounds, we take what might have been viewed as a problem, shows that instead it is the miracle of life, and then walk forward with clients into this next phase of their lives.
Quit Date
In this smoking cessation class You work one-on-one with our nurse for a chance to become a smoke-free home and receive helpful strategies that are unique to you in order to say “yes” to health and no to tobacco. This class is three different hour-long classes during pregnancy, and six after delivery that are paired with incentives. This can be open to non-pregnant clients as well.
Childbirth Education
Work with our nurse as she educates you on childbirth and answers the questions you have!
Expectant Parent Class
The responsibilities of parenting usually require major adjustments of lifestyle and finances. The transition is often difficult. We help parents prepare for these profound changes and what to expect.
Safe Sleep
Partnering with Indiana Department of Child Services, Helping Hands delivers Safe Sleep education to anyone in the community that needs a safe place for the infant, up to one year of age, to sleep. this drastically helps to decrease the loss of life of our community’s infants.
Referral for Adoption
Each woman’s situation is unique: adoption may or may not be the right option. Helping Hands can help a woman clarify her choices by helping clients meet with and choose an agency where she will be comfortable and then walk through the pregnancy and process with her.
Bereavement Support
Families that suffer the loss of a child through miscarriage, still birth or death after life can meet with us to share about their current situation and allow us to support them through their grief.
Post-Abortion Recovery
On average it takes a woman 5-7 years to begin to deal with the hurt of a past abortion. The aftermath of a past abortion is often dealt with in silence and secrecy. We want something different. Our staff, in a secure environment, can lovingly walk the road to healing with these women.
Material Assistance
Material Assistance
Through our #LifeTogether Program, clients can earn credits to “purchase" baby clothes, new infant car seats, new cribs, and much more. Helping Hands’ #LifeTogether program is unique; it consists of clients earning credits by attending classes and/or working towards and reaching personal goals set by the client and Client Relations Director.
Gift Cards and Gas Cards
As clients' children age out of needing diapers and wipes, they still continue to earn credits for being engaged in our programs and we want them to be of good use! Clients are able to turn in credits for gift cards, often for groceries or gas, to help alleviate financial stress.
Food Assistance
We can help a family with emergency food assistance on a one-time basis.
Emergency Assistance
For those who aren't yet established with Helping Hands, but are in need of material assistance, we can provide limited baby materials in a crisis situation. Individuals are then encouraged to get established with Helping Hands and engage in our #LifeTogether Program so they earn credits and "purchase" materials from Helping Hands' boutique on a regular basis!