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Provides foster care programs that are designed to find safe, secure, and nurturing homes for youth. There are four separate programs offered:

-- Relative Foster Care serves children who are placed in foster care with maternal or paternal relatives.

-- Fictive Kin Foster Care serves children who are placed with a non-relative, but the individual has personal or emotional ties with the child.

-- Traditional Foster Care serves children who are placed in non-relative, licensed foster homes.

-- Foster Family After Care serves children who have successfully returned home to their parents. It provides case management and counseling services in order to stabilize the newly reunited family. Services can continue for up to nine months.

Offers fitness classes, child watch, family and teen programs, swimming lessons, free weights, group cycling, strength/cardiovascular equipment, racquetball courts, a gymnasium, running track and swimming pool.

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

Offers gently used clothing and household items. 

Offers a matching fund program to help with utility bills for Ameren customers only.

Provides medical case management for foster children. The program ensures continuity of medical care, including well child visits, referral, and follow-up with specialists as needed.

Offers a 26-week program for perpetrators of abusive behavior. Service includes a 90-minute group that are held both online and in-person weekly. 

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

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. Assistance is based on household income, size, type of fuel and type of housing. The application period is from October 1-April 30 for elderly and disabled households and November 1-April 30th for the rest of the households. Persons applying must meet 200% poverty guidelines.

LIHEAP also offers a crisis program that may be able to assist homeowners who are with no heat or limited heat during the off months of the LIHEAP program (May-September). The furnace component for crisis runs October 1-April 30th.

Offers workshops that teach individuals and families how to get more out of money and how to save money for financial goals. This is a series of workshops that are a blend of instruction and hands on activities so each concept can be mastered. 

Offers free Hepatitis testing for past or present IV drug users, free Hepatitis A and B vaccine for past or present IV drug user, and individuals that have been told; they have a sexually transmitted disease, and provides sexually transmitted disease screening.

Services include, follow-up on reportable communicable disease, tuberculosis prevention including testing, treatment, education, and counseling, sexually transmitted disease surveillance and investigation, referral for other services as needed.

Offers scholarships, amounts are dependent of funding levels to income eligible individuals who are planning to attend accredited Fishes and Loaves and Miller Academy vocational schools. Preference is given to applicants of racial or ethnic minorities.

Provides food to families with children.

Provides monthly income for individuals without minor children and without adequate income that can be used to pay for food, rent/shelter, utilities, medical care, or other essential items. General Assistance recipients may be required to participate in the township's Job Search and Training program unless medically exempt.

Volunteer opportunities at community agencies are listed online for youth, adults, and groups. Individuals can add hours to their profile when they volunteer formally or informally and then download the information into a spreadsheet.

Offers medication management, a strategy for engaging with patients to create a holistic approach to mental health. It includes prescribing medication, possibly changes to an existing prescription or simply refilling a current medication.

Provides non-emergency medical care to individuals of all ages. Some conditions treated at one of the clinics include minor scrapes, cuts, or bruises, Urinary Tract Infections, minor muscle strains, and cough, cold, or flu symptoms.

Offers a Christmas toy program for children ages 0-17. Pre-registration is required, visit website on November 12-December 2nd to sign up, first come first serve. Registering is not a promise of service until confirmation and further instructions are given. Calls may begin as soon as one week after the beginning of registration. Gifts will be given on Saturday, December 6th, 2025, at 11 am-3 pm.