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Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Mobile crisis response provides immediate services when law enforcement, area shelters, and referrals from The Nebraska Family Helpline are confronted with someone experiencing a mental health crisis. Therapists help resolve an immediate behavioral health crisis to avoid emergency protective custody holds, avoid inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and link individuals to community services.

Post-crisis services include a 90-day stabilization program offered in partnership with other agencies.

Peer Support Specialists available to those referred through Omaha Police Department officers who encounter individuals in crisis.

Offers HAWK-I which provides the CHIP benefits (Children's Health Insurance Program) which offers health care insurance coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes. Depending on the size of the family Hawk-I is from free to no more than $40.00 per month; See website for income guidelines. TO APPLY call 1-800-257-8563 or visit www.hawk-i.org

Offers HAWK-I which provides the CHIP benefits (Children's Health Insurance Program) which offers health care insurance coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes. Depending on the size of the family Hawk-I is from free to no more than $40.00 per month; See website for income guidelines. TO APPLY call 1-800-257-8563 or visit www.hawk-i.org

Offers HAWK-I which provides the CHIP benefits (Children's Health Insurance Program) which offers health care insurance coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes. Depending on the size of the family Hawk-I is from free to no more than $40.00 per month; See website for income guidelines. TO APPLY call 1-800-257-8563 or visit www.hawk-i.org

Social Security’s Ticket to Work program supports career development for Social Security disability beneficiaries age 18 through 64 who want to work. The Ticket program is free and voluntary. The Ticket program helps people with disabilities progress toward financial independence.

Mental Health Respite is designed to provide shelter and assistance to address immediate needs which may include case management on a 24/7 basis to consumers experiencing a need for transition to another home or residential setting or a break from the current home or residential setting. Mental Health Respite provides a safe, protected, supervised residential environment on a short-term basis. The intent of the service is to support a consumer through the transition or break, provide linkages to needed behavioral health services, and assist in transition back to the community.

Services provided:

- Case Manager provides individual and group education services.

- Certified Peer Support Specialists offer individual and group recovery services.

- Residential Technicians provide individual and group services.

Two, three, four, and five bedroom houses and duplexes located in neighborhoods throughout Lincoln. Rents are based on income in accordance with federal requirements. Tenants pay most utilities.

Helps individuals and households access locally grown, affordable, and high-quality food through a community garden and farm development program. Working largely with refugee, immigrant, and new American populations, the program provides critical food access to vulnerable portions of the community while educating and empowering others to practice and move towards sustainable food practices.

Activity, breakfast, and Bible study for seniors age 55+.

Provides care and supervision in a protective setting for adults with age-related disabilities during the daytime hours. Includes transportation from and to home in Waterloo/Cedar Falls and Evansdale area.

Offering a drive-thru Thanksgiving and Christmas meal. Then a food basket is offered after the meal, generally distributed the Friday before the holidays. Please call ahead for information on meals. 

Thanksgiving meal - November 21st at 2 pm

Christmas Meal - December 19th at 2 pm 

Offers an intervention program for at-risk youth between the ages of 12 - 18 in Will County who need court ordered community service compliance. Assists youth to avoid convictions. Services include:

• Education about the law and its consequences.
• Social and life skills training.
• Peer education.
• Conflict resolution education.
• Anger management education.

Offers SERVSAFE® classes for food service professionals, providing comprehensive training on food hazards, proper food handling practices, and regulatory requirements to ensure food safety and prevent foodborne-illness outbreaks. 

Offers voluntary programs to eligible landowners and agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance to help manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. Through these programs the agency approves contracts to provide financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation practices that address natural resource concerns or opportunities to help save energy, improve soil, water, plant, air, animal and related resources on agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest land, with emphasis on market stability and commodity pricing.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Offers a drug and alcohol dependency treatment program in which the client commits to stay on campus 24/7 for approximately 30 days. Length of stay depends on each clients unique situation and progress in treatment. Treatment is tailored to the needs of each client. Residential treatment can also assist clients with co-occurring disorders, such as depression, eating disorders, anxiety, and PTSD, in addition to substance use.

Assists in the Library and Archives Research. Whether researching as an author, educator, student, reporter, curator, archeologist, preservationist, historian or genealogist, research materials are provided on microfilm, and books. Most books are browsable on the shelves. Patrons who are interested in accessing the State Archives and Special Collections or Library materials that are not on the open stacks are encouraged to make an appointment and advise staff two business days in advance about the materials they would like to research. Below are the two research locations.

State Historical Building 600 E. Locust St. Des Moines, IA 50319 (515) 281-6200

Centennial Building 402 Iowa Ave. Iowa City, IA 52240 (319) 335-3926

Maintains and provides access to official real estate documents, contracts, articles of incorporation, partnerships, state and federal tax liens, military records, birth, divorce, death, and marriage records. Offers services for issuing and renewing licenses for ATVs, boats, snowmobiles, and fishing, as well as marriage licenses and certificates. Operates as a Passport acceptance facility with photo services and processes military records for tax exemptions and benefits.

Additionally, issues public health permits to certify compliance with health laws for various facilities and institutions. Services include the establishment of standards, review of applications, issuance of permits, and enforcement of compliance through inspections and monitoring. Open to all residents of Des Moines County.

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.