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Offers Child Care Expense Assistance through the Iowa Department of Human services is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are absent for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment. APPLY TO BE A REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDER. SEARCH FOR REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS at www.hhs.iowa.gov

Offers free GED preparation classes in Spanish and English to adults in the community. Additional incentives include:

- Free official practice GED tests.

- Constitution test.

- Partial scholarship to cover the official GED Exam fees.

- Free college course to GED graduates.

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

- Nursing home and home care issues.

- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

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

Provides health care and specialty health care services, including mental health care. Can also provide family and internal medicine services.

Provides immediate, walk-in care for minor injuries and non-emergency illnesses that are not life-threatening but need early attention. Common conditions include sore throat, pink eye, flu, sprains, and strains.

Provides individual counseling, psychiatric services, and crisis intervention for a full range of concerns. Also offers group counseling, career exploration, including clarification of values, abilities, and academic major interests, and general workshops related to mental health, wellness, dealing with stress, and coping with the challenges of college life.

Offers Certified Senior Health Insurance Program (SHIP) counselors who are available by appointment to assist with Medicare D, BEAM (State of Illinois license discount application), Low Income Subsidy application, Medicare Savings Plan application, and various other applications.

Administers licenses for beer, liquor and cigarette sales, pushcart, peddler, solicitor, transient merchant and mobile food units, taxi cab, limousine license, and tow fees.

Provides city government departments and other city information. 

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) assists low-income homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their primary heating costs for the winter heating season. Also encourages households to make regular utility payments, to promote energy awareness and to encourage reduction of energy usage. All customers applying for this prgram will simultaneously be making an application for weatherization assistance as required by state law. Assistance is based on household income. size, type of fuel, and type of housing. Applications accepted October 1-April 30 for the elderly and disabled households and November 1-April 30 for the rest of the households.

Offers a fitness room: exercise bikes, treadmills, stepper, elliptical, dumbbells, universal weight machine, a gymnasium: two basketball hoops, foosball, pool table & air hockey, snack & game area, racquetball & volleyball courts.

County level services provide direct emergency economic aid for vital necessities to veterans, their widow, and dependents, according to their needs. Personal visits for assistance and claims to housebound veterans or dependents. Must have an honorable or under honorable conditions discharge from active duty or wartime service. Must be a resident in Nebraska for the past one year and 6 months of that year in the county. State level services do not require wartime service. Assist in completing applications for the Nebraska Veterans Aid Fund; fee exempt fishing and hunting permits; applications to the Nebraska Veterans Homes; waivers of tuition. Federal level services provide and/or complete Veteran Administration forms for claims relating but not limited to service connected compensation, disability pension, widow's pension, burial allowance, grave markers/headstones, educational benefits, home loans, insurance, indebtedness, and character of service upgrades.

For the 2025 holidays:

Food baskets provided in December (delivered Sat, Dec 20, 2025). Call Sat, November 8, 2025, 9 am-2 pm to register. Call on this date only.

Offers an assisted living in community settings, to maximize independence in activities of daily living, to promote the achievement of vocational potential, and to foster community integration. Residential Program Services include:

- 24 hr. Residential Setting.

- Behavioral Services.

- Case Management.

- Family Support and Assistance.

- Intermittent Assistance.

- Linkage to Day Services.

- Nursing.

- Nutritional Services.

- Recreational Services.

- Social Works Services.

- Transportation.

- Vocational Counseling.