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Offers free books for children each month.

Recruits and prepares adoptive families. Offers services for identified adoptions, foster care adoptions, and post placement services.

Provides contractual home studies for domestic and international adoptions.

Assistance with home purchase down payments, closing cost payment, purchase, rehabilitation and resell of homes, and new construction.

NeighborWorks is also a packager for USDA-D home loans.

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.

- Advocacy and therapeutic support to assist individuals exiting prostitution and escaping human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

- Case management and therapy for individuals.

- Collaborates with local shelters and treatment programs for groups and individual treatment offered through correctional institutions.

- Therapy for individuals and families.

Addresses local community planning and economic development through initiatives such as community engagement, leadership development, economic development, improving regional food systems and creating welcoming recreational and functional spaces.

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) provides supplemental help for the winter heating bills November 1st through April 15th: LIHEAP Crisis Assistance when funding available provides in a life-threatening situation fuel, heaters, furnace repair; furnace replacement for homeowners when funds available. Applications are accepted October 1-April 30 for elderly or disabled households and November 1-April 30 for all other households. May have some crisis funding available outside the normal LIHEAP months, call local County Outreach Office for availability of funding.

Provides health care and supportive services to seriously ill individuals and their families. Emphasis is on pain and symptom control so the patient may live their last months and weeks in comfort with dignity. The majority of patients are cared for in their own homes, but hospice care is also available in long term care facilities, hospitals or at the Kavanagh House in Des Moines or EveryStep Greater Regional Hospice Home in Creston.

Provides early childhood education services for children. Services include learning a variety of subjects including math, science, literature, music, and art. Services may also include a summer camp.

Senior centers provide a place for congregate meals, as well as social activities, games, educational programs, etc.

Reimburses for funeral and burial expenses when a person's resources and all other sources of payment are less than the DHS standard payment rates. The maximum amount that DHS will pay is $1370 for a funeral and $686 for a cremation/burial.

Provides a resale store that offers previously owned items for a fee or items at no cost. Proceeds raised from the sale are used to help fund cancer research and local programs and services. The shop is owned by the American Cancer Society and is operated by volunteers and staff.

Offers supportive housing facilities for those in need. Each of these facilities offers supportive services, such as counseling, educational programs, quality childcare, and job training. This location is one of the coordinated entry points for those who are homeless in the area. 

Haven House: Provides a home environment for women with or without children.

Haven Apartments: Permanent supportive housing that serves homeless women and their children who may be disabled.

Hope Place: Provides a home environment for families with low-to-moderate incomes.

Provides care before and after Head Start/Early Head Start hours and is open throughout the summer, when traditional Head Start is not in session. Provides before and after school transportation.