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Helps individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities by enabling them to successfully live, learn, work, and socialize in the community. Its programs are attuned to the unique potential of each individual and designed to build self-confidence and independence. Support services are provided through one or more of the following programs:

- 24-hour residential support.

- Developmental training.

- Supported living.

- Supported employment.

- Competitive employment.

- Janitorial training.

Offers credit and non-credit classes and workshops throughout the year. Some of the workshops include gardening and landscape instruction, cooking classes, computer literacy training programs, arts and crafts instructions, and continuing education.

Provides senior centers and congregate meal sites for seniors ages 60 and over. The locations provide the opportunity to meet other seniors for recreational, social, and educational activities.

Congregate Meals

- DeKalb Club 55, meal served Wednesdays at 12 pm

- Malta Club 55, meal served Monday and Friday at 12 pm

Potlucks and Parties

- DeKalb Club 55, second Friday of the month starting at 12 pm

- Malta Club 55, bring your own lunch Wednesdays starting at 12 pm

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified family development specialist.

Provides home care and palliative services to those with an end-of-life illness, grief support programs, and counseling. 

Offers Health and Safety classes. Services include First Aid, Adult, Child and Infant CPR, Babysitting, Pet First Aid, Life Guarding, Water Safety and the Annual Learn to Swim Program. Provide First Aid Stations for selected activities throughout the state of Iowa. Facilitates the sale of and provide training for Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs). HEALTH EDUCATION provides educational talks and demonstrations on HIV/AIDS, Your Heart Matters, Workplace Violence Awareness, Protect Your Back, Ergonomics, Managing Stress, Avian Flu 101, HIV/AIDS, and Slips Trips and Falls.

Provides support to local schools and families by providing educational services, informational and technology, and special education services for children with disabilities. 

Support group and education for people with a brain tumor diagnosis, their family, friends, or health care professionals; education presented by health care and community speakers.

Addresses local community planning and economic development through initiatives such as community engagement, leadership development, economic development, improving regional food systems and creating welcoming recreational and functional spaces.

Offers, as resources allow, to help refugees and asylees reach economic self-sufficiency and to them with any problems, interests and concerns they may have. The Bureau of Refugee Services works to serve as a central clearinghouse in order to refer refugees and asylees to any resource necessary and available to them. The Bureau is the service agency for all refugees enrolled in FIP, the state welfare reform program. Now offering a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) program. This program will help participants prepare for the class, enroll into the DMACC CDL program at no cost, and obtain a job after completion. Participants will also qualify for “Jump Start” training specially designed to help English Language Learners.

Law enforcement agency.

Offers friendly visits to socially isolated adults.

Provides a website offering the following substance use information:

- Medication assisted treatment for opioid addiction.

• Drug addiction facts and risks, including how heroin changes the brain.
• Myths about heroin and individuals who use heroin.
• Symptoms of heroin withdrawal.
• Warning signs of drug use.

The Pottawattamie County Animal Control Services office is located at 600 South 4th Street, Council Bluffs, IA 51503.

Upholds the County regulations for licensing animals, investigates complaints, and works to ensure the safety of the public and pets from communicable diseases and dangerous strays.

Investigates stray animals, bite incidents, rabies symptoms, and neglect or abuse.

Works with the community to identify animals in distress, at risk, or who are a disturbance. It is the goal of the animal control division to return animals to their owners in all appropriate cases or to move animals to a safe shelter environment.

Full-service hospital.

Provides grief support. 

-- The First Steps Grief Support Group: A bereavement group for anyone who has experienced loss. Offers support as the first steps are taken in dealing with a loss.

-- Living Through Grief: The group uses videos, books, speakers, and discussions to help participants learn more about the grief process, share stories, and regain hope for healing.

The First Steps Grief Support Group meets in the Conference Dining Room at FHN Memorial Hospital, and the Living Through Grief meets in the Deaconess Room at FHN Memorial Hospital.