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Provides medical and health-related items for purchase or rent to individuals in need of continuing care at home. Offers 24/7 emergency call service, as well as training in how to safely and effectively use medical equipment at home. Mobility support and rehabilitation aids also available, along with respiratory support devices, sleep care devices, and women's health aids breast pumps and post mastectomy supplies and custom fitting consultations.

Emergency operations center for the County, which handles emergency response incidents, including accidents, fires, floods, storms and other disasters. Also responsible for requesting federal assistance after a disaster.

Intensive team facilitation and service coordination for youth with serious emotional disturbances and their families.

Eligibility for traditional program: Youth, ages 0-21, with behavioral concerns, diagnosed with a serious emotional disorder, at risk for out-of-home placement.

Eligibility for transition age program: Young adults, ages 17-25, diagnosed with a serious and persistent mental illness, at risk of entering, or have entered, the adult emergency system.

Provides vocational assessments, job coaching and supported employment services. In addition, support for students with disabilities pursuing post-secondary education is available.

Serves families interested in adopting a child. Allows birth parents and adoptive parents to design an adoption plan that is in the best interest of the child, and recognizes the importance of the adoptive parents and birth parents developing an on-going relationship. Services include counseling young women who are pregnant, adoption orientations, adoption home studies for domestic and international adoptions, as well as for special needs adoptions, post-placement supervision, finalization services, ongoing support groups, and adoption searches.

Provides energy efficiency services without cost to homeowners or renters who meet guidelines. Installation of work measurers are determined and measured by a computerized energy audit. Work includes sealing air infiltration leaks, high-density insulation, health and safety check, heating system repair or replacement, water heaters repair or replacement. Some minor repair is allowable for health and safety reasons.

Provides counseling services for both individual treatment and group work. It can be focused on a specific issue or focused on broader patterns of thinking and behavior. Both require an individual to learn new, healthier ways to think and interact.

Online counseling option also available. An online session is conducted the same as an in-person session, with the exception of never having to leave the home or office. The format is face-to-face, in real time, over a computer.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or utility payments may be available. Can also assist with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws, and burial benefits.

Provides autism screenings and help find diagnostic services. Teams help Iowa families navigate local supports and services for children and youth with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and provide family-to-family support. 

Provides an alternative for patients who need skilled care, but do not require 24-hour supervision. Services are provided to patients under the direction of the patient’s doctor.

Services Include:

- Skilled Nursing Care Provided by a Registered Nurse and Licensed Practical Nurse.

- Pediatric Care.

- Home Health Aide Care.

- Medical Social Worker.

- Occupational Therapy.

- Speech Therapy.

- Physical Therapy.

Emergency shelter for single men, single women, and families. Meals served to anyone, including breakfast and supper.

Offers rural public transportation, to persons of all ages. Passengers may ride scheduled routes by reservation, for any trip purpose or may request special service for medical appointments. Pick up is at central community locations and at passengers' homes. Vehicles are lift-equipped to accommodate wheelchairs.

Records legal documents, issues birth, death & marriage certificates. Issues marriage licenses. Registers boats, snowmobiles, ATV's & ORV's. Issues fishing and small game licenses. Issues certified copies of military discharges.

Maintains and provides access to official real estate documents, contracts, articles of incorporation, partnerships, state and federal tax liens, military records, birth, divorce, death, and marriage records. Offers services for issuing and renewing licenses for ATVs, boats, snowmobiles, and fishing, as well as marriage licenses and certificates. Operates as a Passport acceptance facility with photo services and processes military records for tax exemptions and benefits.

Additionally, issues public health permits to certify compliance with health laws for various facilities and institutions. Services include the establishment of standards, review of applications, issuance of permits, and enforcement of compliance through inspections and monitoring.

Community courses run every spring, summer, and fall.

Offers different-level courses for the following languages: English, Spanish, ASL, and Arabic.

Courses generally last 10 consecutive weeks (except during summer when they run for 5 weeks), and classes are once a week for 1.5 hrs (except during summer when they run twice a week).

Courses are open to the community at no cost, except for a $15.00 registration fee that covers the class materials.

Offers substance use disorder counseling, mental health and substance use evaluations, individual, group, and family counseling, community education, crisis intervention and medication management.

Type of advice offered may vary based on funding.

Provides free legal advice, brief service, and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).