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Offers children to participate in various activities and staged play to explore with a balance of language, sensory, fine and gross motor, art, math, music, cognitive and social-emotional concepts. 

Food pantry. Participants are allowed to visit once per week.

Provides a boxing diversion program to drug use, gangs, and violence. Services are available for all youth, especially those in low-income households, to participate in extracurricular activities while providing a safe, healthy, and positive environment. Youth are taught the fundamentals of Olympic boxing through the direction of licensed/certified coaches. The program is designed to teach responsibility and self-control while supporting positive life outlook. Issues of pre-delinquent and delinquent behaviors such as alcohol and drug use are addressed in the program. Can also establish tutors for youth members as needed.

Offers a weight loss support group for anyone concerned with their weight. For information regarding local chapters in various locations around the city and surrounding community or for assistance in organizing a similar group call the office. Meetings are available statewide.

Provides hospital services to anyone in need through a combination of outpatient, inpatient, and community-based programs. The hospitals also provide specialized departments and assists people from the State of Iowa as well as surrounding states who are dealing with disabilities or special illnesses.

Offers a Donor Program that provides advancement for health sciences education and the health and welfare of mankind through the utilization of deceased humans for medical study and research.

Provides intensive, family-focused, and community-based treatment program for behaviorally challenged youth. The primary goals are to decrease rates of antisocial behavior, clinical problems, improve functioning (e.g., family relations, school performance), and to reduce the use of out-of-home placements such as incarceration, residential treatment, and hospitalization. 

Patients in need of help paying for a prescription can obtain assistance through a voucher.

Employment agency for job seekers with developmental disabilities.

Career planning, job placement, and ongoing support and consultation to employee and employer.

Provides community based day services, residential supports, and respite services.

Diversity training to employers on working with people experiencing developmental disabilities.

Capillary-blood testing (finger-prick) testing can be done to check blood lead levels in children and adults. Also does lead testing in/around homes and buildings for the presence of lead.

Mental health case management. Aids in assessment, planning, and support for a variety of needs. Assists with housing, public income entitlements, accessing various services, and more.

Case management services include, advocacy for mental health and other services, identifying and linking individuals with necessary resources, building skills for daily living.

Provides a mini community food pantry located on the east side of the library entrance. Feel free to take items or donate non perishable items that are not expired.

In home personal care services (by private pay), such as meal preparation, light housekeeping, laundry, errands, etc.

For youth who are at risk for, or who have committed law violations, the program provides positive development opportunities to prevent subsequent law violations and prepare them to live successfully in the community. Youth receive support in the areas of education, employment, basic living skills, crisis stabilization, and healthy relationships. Programs include electronic monitoring, community youth coaching, family support, and in-home family services.

Community-based Wellness Programs provide solutions to improve the quality of life for people living with chronic health issues.

LiveStrong at the Y helps cancer survivors increase strength and endurance, better their mental health, and build support with others that have also walked the difficult journey.

In Brain and Body, those with Parkinson's or other neurological conditions engage in physical and mental exercises that improve balance, memory, and more.

Y Weight Loss is designed for individuals looking to lose weight through education, personalized goal setting, and small, sustainable changes.

The Mills County YMCA only offers Y Weight Loss and the YMCA Healthy Living Center only offers Brain and Body.