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Offers public health services to the Keokuk County communities. Services include home care services and home care nursing, health care programs for women and children, prenatal care, general physicals, immunizations, blood pressure screenings, diabetes screenings, mental health administration, early childhood development, and environmental health services. Also provides information on communicable diseases.

Additional support includes homemaker assistance for families experiencing disruptions due to illness, disability, or other challenges, and personal care services to assist with hygiene, mobility, household tasks, and nutritional needs for individuals such as elderly people, people with disabilities, or recently discharged hospital patients.

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.

Provides law enforcement services to Kossuth County, including the operation of correctional facilities.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers faith-based post-abortion support.

Offers all DHS offices across the state during open hours for people to use as a warm/cool place to stay.

Provides a program that reimburses participating child development homes for serving healthy meals and snacks to children in care setting. 

Provides practical information for anyone to access in the areas served. Education services include agriculture, horticulture, family and consumer economics, nutrition and wellness, and youth development. The website has information about different programming options available.

Emergency response to Shelby County, emergency planning, and resource assistance.

Provides outreach support and transitional housing services to young adults experiencing a housing crisis or trying to prevent one. Outreach services offer survival aid, help finding and keeping a job, safety planning, educational supports, legal aid, medication connections, emotional support, and emergency housing. Transitional housing services allows a limited number of apartments for young adults experiencing a housing crisis. While in the housing program individuals will be taught independence, how to keep a job, assistance with finishing their education, and staying connected to lots of other services. 

Provides door-to-door or door-through-door transportation to eligible seniors for social and recreational, medical, and life-enriching purposes by a trained and vetted volunteer drivers at no cost to the senior or their families.

Other drop-off and stay-at-the-destination services are available.

Clients must be enrolled in program prior to scheduling transportation.  Rides must be scheduled at least 3 days in advanced. Rider must schedule their own rides and be 100% ambulatory. Mobility aids such as walkers and canes are accepted but not wheelchairs or transport chairs.