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Provides opportunities for socialization and therapeutic activities for individuals who may be isolated in the community or who require assistance due to physical, emotional, or mental health challenges. Individualized treatment plans are tailored for clients with physical, cognitive, social, or emotional needs.

Clients are offered door-to-door transportation and buses are staffed with drivers and aides certified in First Aid and CPR. Additionally, a light breakfast and full lunch are included in the day’s program. Participants can attend one day or up to five days per week, depending on their schedules and needs.

This program serves individuals with:

-- Chronic health conditions.

-- Inability to manage independently.

-- Adults who are isolated or lonely.

-- Adults with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or Dementia.

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Congregate Meals - All participating senior centers participate in both congregate meal and home delivered meal programs to help ensure the basic wellness of seniors. For those lacking a proper nutritious meal or unable to obtain meals by normal means, call the local senior center for assistance.

Provides career-based group mentoring for middle and high school students in Polk County, IA. Services focus on career exploration and guidance. Program availability varies by school, call to find out if the program is offered at a specific school.

Offers attendance and truancy prevention and intervention services. Truancy Specialists make contact via letter or phone call to discuss attendance concerns with parent(s)/guardian(s), conducts home visits, provides one-on-one informal attendance counseling between Truancy Specialist and student, works as a liaison between student, family, and school district, and links students and families to local area social service as needed.

Offers Credit Recovery to all districts in the coverage area and it is provided via on-line instruction. Students who have failed courses required for graduation, can be referred to TAP for Credit Recovery, contact school's guidance counselor.

Provides Information and referrals about day and overnight camps throughout the state, including camps serving people with disabilities.

DFI Title XX Camping Service program- Provides matching funds to offer camp opportunities to Illinois youth from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.

Offers Single Family Housing Programs. These programs provide home ownership opportunities to low- and moderate-income rural Americans through several loan, grant, and loan guarantee programs. Also makes funding available to individuals to finance vital improvements necessary to make their homes decent, safe, and sanitary.

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.

Captures information to identify and refer children with health problems to the High Risk Infant Follow-up that will ensure the healthy development of infants born with a high-risk medical condition.

A no-kill animal shelter that provides shelter, care, and suitable homes for animals when possible. Other programs include:

- Animal Assisted Therapy: brings pets to residents of nursing facilities, assisted living, Alzheimer's Centers, and residential disability centers.

- Dog Bite Prevention Education: visits schools and other groups to teach children the basics of animal behavior and how to avoid getting bitten by dogs and cats.

- Continuing Care: provides shelter and care for pets if their owners become unavailable to care for them.

- Arm Chair Adoptions: Individuals who are unable to care for a pet in their home can "adopt" a pet that lives at the animal shelter, and the individual receives letters and photos of their pet.

Offers youth and adults programs in disease prevention and health promotion along with group exercise classes and personal training. The aquatics program is offered to residents as an additional avenue to maintain good health.

Provides comprehensive classroom and home-based services to pregnant women and children birth to age five, including children with significant special needs.

CEFS Outreach offices do not serve the program; the program provides services from their own classroom/office locations. (See the notes in Coverage Area for more details.)

Offers disaster assistance vouchers to be used at the Salvation Army Thrift Store, available only to those who need assistance in the wake of a disaster situation (such as housefire, flooding, tornado, etc.) When items are available, vouchers can be used for furniture, personal hygiene products, clothing, and other needed household items.

Provides daily living support on a less than 24-hour basis. Services provided work to help individuals live as independently as possible in the community. Supports can include things like assistance with money management, help with grocery shopping, advocacy, transportation to doctor’s appointments and understanding medical concerns, help with paperwork associated with benefits, planning vacations, and fun recreational activities of the person’s choosing. Services are provided at times and in environments that are most convenient for individuals and their families.

Provides Iowa Total Care, one of three MCO's that Iowa Medicaid is contracting out. Iowa Total Care offers a free 24/7 nurse advice line that members can use to get their health questions answered quickly and easily. Medical professionals are ready to address member questions and help set up doctor appointments. Call to learn more or to have health questions answered.

Aims to protect people against known and emerging infectious diseases in Nebraska by enhancing vaccine availability through partnerships with community providers across the state.​

Works to protect Nebraskans of all ages from vaccine-preventable disease by:

- Raising awareness of the importance of timely immunizations

- Enhancing trust and understanding of the benefits of vaccines

- Increasing confidence in the safety of vaccines

- Partnering with public and private providers to offer vaccines regardless of ability to pay​​​

- Recognizing and developing policies that support timely vaccination

- Providing vaccine related resource for providers, parents or guardians, and individuals.

Offers FIP (Family Investment Program) a cash assistance program for children and their families who have low income, also available to relatives caring for children whose parents are not in the home. The goal of FIP is to help families leave poverty and become self supporting, can participate for up to 60 months. FIP is Iowa's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.