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Preschool and childcare with day and evening/night options. Emergency care also available.

Provides rent payment assistance for households with an eviction notice and utility assistance for households with a utility disconnect.

May also help with deposit payment for new rental housing.

Provides staff to help individuals determine their eligibility and assist their applications for the programs that the pharmaceutical companies have for the uninsured/under-insured. Also offers additional assistance with immediate medication costs/co-pays, depending on the situation.

Offers a program that uses counseling and therapy to incorporate patients faith and spiritual beliefs in the process of personal growth, healing, and change.

Immediate care provides treatment for injuries and ailments such as:

- Cold, sore throat, and flu.

- Cuts needing stitches.

- Dehydration.

- Earaches.

- Fever over 100.4 F.

- Food poisoning.

- Fractures and minor burns.

- Laboratory and imaging.

- Nausea and vomiting.

- Nosebleeds.

- Rashes.

- Respiratory and sinus infections.

- Sprains and strains.

- Urinary tract infections.

Offers free books to children age 0-5.

Offers a 12 month long term program designed to use biblical based knowledge to set women free from drugs, alcohol, and all other life controlling issues. The curriculum is faith-based.

Provides outdoor recreation and environmental education promoting conservation efforts aimed at protecting natural resources from abuse, neglect, or exploitation for all ages and interests. 

Manages more than 30 hunting and outdoor recreation areas, and maintains a nature center.

Provides a pre-kindergarten program for students ages 3-5. Services are available free of charge to eligible students living within district boundaries. Pre-k staff determines eligibility and student acceptance into the program and placement is based on student needs. Program is designed to increase student opportunities, help prepare for future achievements, meet individual needs and goals in eight domains of learning. Including language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, physical development and health, fine arts, foreign and primary language, social and emotional. 

Offers Bicycle registration at all Des Moines fire stations.

FIRE STATION LOCATIONS IN DES MOINES:

• 1330 Mulberry Street
• 1727 East Walnut Street
• 2458 Easton Boulevard
• 1505 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway
• 711 42nd Street
• 1919 SE 6th Street
• 3500 East 12th Street
• 1249 McKinley Avenue
• 4800 Douglas Avenue
• 5900 Indianola Road
• 4150 East 42nd Street

Provides a community college.

Assists families with children, birth to three years, with disabilities or special needs to access community services. Families are linked with developmental evaluations through the schools, Nebraska Health and Human Services programs, health resources, parent-to-parent support, and other supports and services as identified by the families' priorities.

Provides public school services for grades pre-K-12. Visit website to get individual school information. 

Supplemental nutrition program for infants, children up to the age of 5, and women who are pregnant, breastfeeding or have had a baby in the last 6 months. Provides education, resources and support to pregnant and postpartum women.

Provides weatherization services to make homes more energy efficient through health and safety checks including furnaces, insulation, water heaters and sealing doorways and windows. Inefficient heating components may be repaired or replaced.

Provides children with important information by handling the issue of child sexual abuse in a sensitive manner while empowering children and equipping them with the skills needed to help prevent and report abuse. The program consists of six 30-minute sessions: Asking for Help, Babies, Asking for Permission, Identifying Private Parts, Developing Empathy, Touches (Good/Bad/Mixed-up).

Therapy services offered at the office or within the home to best meet the needs of the client. The intensity and duration of treatment varies substantially depending on the presenting problems or difficulties. Therapists may assist with various difficulties, including family issues associated with raising youth with severe behavioral problems, aggression, hyperactivity, anxiety, depression, withdrawal behaviors, and suicidal ideation. Therapists are also qualified to treat all major mental health issues.

Typical referral issues:

- Symptoms of Abuse/Neglect.

- Suicidal Thoughts/Attempts.

- Juvenile Behavioral Problems.

- Drug/Alcohol Issues.

- Mental Health of Emotional Disruptions.

- Family Relationship Problems.

- Parenting Skills Development.

- School Problems.

- Independent Living Skills Training.

- Social Skills Training.

Provides general assistance financial aid for residents according to state guidelines and temporary financial assistance for residents in a life-threatening situation.