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FADSS | MID-IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION INC

Provides in-home support to families receiving FIP (welfare) assistance, helping the family to increase stability and become economically self-sufficient. Family development specialists meet one-on-one with families in regular home visits. Together, specialists and families address the barriers affecting success by completing assessment tools and developing goals around areas critical to the family's overall well-being.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

MULTIPURPOSE CENTER | JESSE COSBY NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER

Offers addiction group counseling, community service activities and other educational programming such as the legal clinic, financial management, citizenship restoration, fair housing and lead based paint awareness, health screenings, home buyers, employment and voter education. Employment Preparation and placement services for unskilled, low income or formerly incarcerated persons in partnership with other state and local entities.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups

COMMUNITY RESPONSE CENTRAL NAVIGATION | FAMILIES 1ST PARTNERSHIP

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Limited funding sometimes available for vehicle repair, minor home repairs and dental work.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Work Clothing
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Dental Care
Medical Expense Assistance
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Case/Care Management
Rent Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Rental Deposit Assistance

FADSS | NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY | WEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY ACTION

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM (FADSS) | MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY, INC.

Engages families in dynamic partnerships to address their basic needs, improve child well-being, and develop career opportunities that, in turn, improves lives, families, and communities.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

CENTRAL NAVIGATION | FREMONT AREA UNITED WAY

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Work Clothing
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Case/Care Management
Rental Deposit Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Mental Health Expense Assistance

FAMILY AND WORKFORCE PROGRAMS | OAKRIDGE NEIGHBORHOOD

Provides equitable access and opportunities for economic success for underserved clients. Programs include job readiness, assisting with job placement and developing skills to aid in job retention, ELL, citizenship, computer skills, resume writing, networking, cultural transition support groups and peer discussions, effective parenting, education and coaching to enhance and promote financial literacy and long-term self-sufficiency, and other skills necessary to compete in the modern workplace.

The programs address the barriers impacting low income and refugee families and their ability to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Barriers from employment discrimination, language barriers, poverty, family conflict, transportation, financial illiteracy, and much more. Programs and class offerings are designed to be flexible to fit individual needs, and include a "high touch" service model which is both culturally competent and language specific.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Eye Examinations
Financial Literacy Training
Job Search/Placement
Cultural Transition Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Computer Literacy Training Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM (FADSS) | MID-SIOUX OPPORTUNITY, INC.

Engages families in dynamic partnerships to address their basic needs, improve child well-being, and develop career opportunities that, in turn, improves lives, families, and communities.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FADSS | NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FADSS | NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FADSS | SIEDA COMMUNITY ACTION

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM (FADSS) | NEW OPPORTUNITIES, INC.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF SUFFICIENCY (FADSS) | COMMUNITY ACTION OF EASTERN IOWA

Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT | SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP, INC.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

COMMUNITY PARTNERS RESPONSE | BUFFALO COUNTY COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

What's Here

Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Rent Payment Assistance
Case/Care Management
Work Clothing
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Medical Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance

COMMUNITY CLASSES | CATHOLIC CHARITIES, DIOCESE OF JOLIET

Offers community classes covering a variety of topics including Life Skills Training - Family Life Series, Stepping Up, personal development, anger management, and Positive Parenting.

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Anger Management
Parenting Skills Classes
Life Skills Education
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT | SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP, INC.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT | SOUTHEAST NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP, INC.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FADSS | NORTH IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

PATHWAY OF HOPE | SALVATION ARMY - QUINCY

Offers case management services to families with at least one child under the age of 18. Case management works to help families reach stability. Goals created are client-oriented, and case managers connect clients to job training, health services, housing options, legal help, education, and more.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT AND SELF SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM (FADSS) | SOUTH CENTRAL IOWA COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY

Offers a partnership with families who receive FIP to provide them with the support they need to gain independence from public assistance. The program is voluntary and does not affect FIP benefits. It is focused on families success and growth. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
TANF

MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARM WORKER OUTREACH PROGRAM | IOWAWORKS OF DECORAH

Iowa Workforce Development’s Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker (MSFW) outreach program is focused on educating and assisting farm workers and agricultural employers. Farm workers receive training and employment services through IowaWORKS Centers to assist with attaining greater economic stability. The State Monitor Advocate helps ensure farm workers are served equitably through workforce programs.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

HOPE OFFERS PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT (HOPE) | CENTRAL NEBRASKA COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP, INC.

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

FAMILY DEVELOPMENT SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM (FADSS) | NEW OPPORTUNITIES, INC.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

What's Here

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs