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Helps applying for benefits, information on community resources, and assistance to caregivers and grandparents raising grandchildren.

Provides 911 services by assessing requests for emergency assistance and dispatching the appropriate response agencies, including police, fire, and paramedic services

Supportive home for those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction; residents must abide by the rules of the home, including never using drugs or alcohol while a resident. Homes may house men, women, women with children, or men with children.

Vacancies can be searched online at www.oxfordvacancies.com.

Provides mental health and substance abuse counseling services to veterans. Services include treatment for addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and OCD.

Offers a group of individuals assisting others with their addiction to cocaine or other mind altering drugs. Online meetings are also available.

LOCAL CONTACTS:

Cedar Rapids, IA Contact: Randy G. at [email protected], (319) 512-9354.

Offers law enforcement services to the Whiteside County area. Services also operate the county jail. 

In-home caregivers provide a range of services, including assistance with personal care, bathing, bill preparation, changing bed linens, cleaning dishes, companionship/respite care, general homemaking, grooming, laundry, letter writing, mail review, meal preparation and cleanup, medication reminders, organizing living space and closets, reading reminders, scheduling appointments, shopping, taking out garbage, transportation, and errands.

Responsibilities include:

- Service and enforcement and all court orders.

- Civil process of warrants, mittimus, orders of protection, eviction, foreclosures, summons, and subpoenas.

- Enforcement of all State Statutes.

- Investigation of criminal matters and traffic crashes.

- Maintenance of the Courthouse and the Jail Facility.

- Keeping the peace.

Full time, full year preschool and daycare. Provides school-age care before and after school, on early dismissal days, no school days, and in the summer.

24/7 Crisis intervention for at-risk, run-away, abused, neglected, and homeless youth ages 11-17. The goal is to divert youth from the juvenile justice and/or child welfare systems.

Follow-up counseling provided to stabilize youth and families.

Assists with short-term and long-term placements if family reunification is not immediately possible.

-- Peace Meal: Noon meal in community locations, often with recreational and educational activities, as well as transportation to the sites.

-- Home-Delivered Meals: Available for individuals with a need for meal assistance.

Offers monthly get togethers to children with disabilities for an opportunity to make friendships, foster peer relationships, and develop social skills. Services include fun crafts, games, and activities, while also hanging out with friends and experiencing new things within the community. 

Provides weatherization services to low income households. Helps conserve fuel and reduce energy costs by making homes and apartments more energy efficient. Also provides many health and safety upgrades.

Services vary, but may include insulation, furnace work, and air sealing.

Offers crisis services for those experiencing mental health crises, such as suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and acute psychosis; substance use crises, such as overdoses and withdrawal symptoms; and everyday issues such as relationship challenges, financial challenges, job loss, and grief and loss.

Services include:

- Pathways to Success: Provides access to intensive care coordination and additional home- and community-based services for youth ages 20 and younger with complex behavioral health needs.

- The Living Room: Offers a safe, quiet space where people experiencing emotional distress can find respite staffed by Certified Recovery Support Specialists who offer peer support. Designed as an alternative safe space for clients who might otherwise use emergency department services for mental health needs.

- Mobile Crisis Response: Clinicians respond to calls through the CARES Line and the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline when there is immediate need for support with the goal of stabilizing children and adults in community settings or determining the appropriate referral.

- Crisis Co-Response Team (CCRT): Teams that pair clinicians with police departments and law enforcement to provide crisis support and follow-up behavioral healthcare for individuals involved with 911 and emergency response calls.

Provides help to low-income people and families buy food.

Offers the Restaurant Meals Program, which allows eligible SNAP customers to buy meals at authorized restaurants. (Available to SNAP customers who are homeless, elderly, and/or disabled.)

The LINK card is accepted at many farmers' markets.

Expedited/Emergency SNAP Benefits may be available (in 5 days or less from the date of application) to eligible clients if:

- Monthly income, cash, and bank accounts are less than client's rent or mortgage plus utility costs, OR

- Monthly income is less than $150 and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100, OR

- At least one person in the household is a migrant farm worker and client's cash and bank accounts are not more than $100.

Provides public bus transportation with fixed routes. Commuter route is also available to Midway Airport in Chicago.

Serves children who have experienced abuse through a comprehensive approach of providing services to the child and their non-offending family members. Staff provides advocacy services to help bridge the gap between law enforcement and the court system.

Services include:

• Forensic interviews
• Trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy
• Resource referrals
• Medical forensic exam