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Financial assistance for shelter, utilities, and other basic needs. Emergency assistance available for rental eviction or utility disconnection. Assistance for car repair assistance for those employed or seeking employment.

Offers a free and confidential crisis line for veterans. Can also help with local suicide prevention coordinators, who can connect veterans to ongoing counseling and services in their area. 

Provides information on Parkinson's disease, including its causes, symptoms, treatment options, and therapeutic activities to do at home. Also offers resources and insights to foster understanding and awareness about living with Parkinson's disease, promoting positive communication and interaction with individuals affected by the condition. 

Specializes in providing assistance to individuals, couples, children, adolescents, and families for a full range of life and family issues, including couples problems, depression, anxiety, childhood and adolescent behavioral issues, trauma, and grief.

Staff are also available to provide education seminars or specialized group counseling programs on site to any local organization, school, church, or business; topics include communication, conflict resolution, parent training and education, child and adolescent groups, marital enrichment, and anger management.

Services may be available outside of normal business hours.

Offers childhood immunizations to eligible children. 

Educational information offered related to disaster preparedness and recovery, beef cattle production, and cropping and water systems.

Offers public health services to the Keokuk County communities. Services include home care services and home care nursing, health care programs for women and children, prenatal care, general physicals, immunizations, blood pressure screenings, diabetes screenings, mental health administration, early childhood development, and environmental health services. Also provides information on communicable diseases.

Additional support includes homemaker assistance for families experiencing disruptions due to illness, disability, or other challenges, and personal care services to assist with hygiene, mobility, household tasks, and nutritional needs for individuals such as elderly people, people with disabilities, or recently discharged hospital patients.

Provides a class for divorcing parents with minor children or those going through modification with custody.

Offers non-clinical substance use recovery peer support services.

Services include:

- Vital Records (birth, death, marriage, civil union, etc.).

- Property Taxes (maintains property tax information).

- Election authority.

- County Board.

Provides health legal services that helps individuals and families obtain and maintain Medicaid and Medicare and obtain coverage for services needed. Can also assist with medical assistance denials, terminations, spend down issues (Medicaid, Medicare), establishing powers of attorney, nursing home discharges, helping family members obtain guardianship or other legal authority to care for loved ones, and helping people with HIV/AIDS obtain care and services.

Provides democratically-ran, self-supported recovery homes for those suffering from substance abuse. Each home has weekly house meetings to support one another through recovery.

Provides a maternity home (NOT A SHELTER) dedicated to the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, helping through postpartum care of single pregnant mothers, girls that are not pregnant but have an infant, or girls who are pregnant with another young child (infant) with them. It is a safe haven where they can stay while learning the skills, get basic needs and counseling they need to make a better life for themselves and their babies.

Offers a year-long Life Recovery program for men that are struggling with addiction and other life controlling issues. The program includes life skills classes, job readiness training, substance abuse counseling, recovery groups, spiritual development, educational opportunities and much more. Intakes are done through Bethel Mission

Provides individual and family mental health therapy, advocacy and trauma treatment. (Play therapy, sand tray therapy, EMDR therapy, and BHIS).

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.

Provides food pantry located in the entryway and can be accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Provides emergency food for those with an immediate need outside the days and times available through the community's larger regularly scheduled pantries. Includes non-perishable food items and occasionally some paper, hygiene, and household products.

Offers a variety of camping experiences for girls ages 5-17, including established camps and day camps. 

CAMP SACAJAWEA is located on 405 acres of wooded ravines and plateaus bordering the Des Moines River, providing opportunities for exploration and outdoor activities. 

CAMP TANGLEFOOT, situated partially along the shore of Clear Lake, spans 50 acres and features a meadow for play, forest trails for hiking, and chances to observe wildlife in the prairie and marsh. 

CAMP JOY HOLLOW, located on 360 acres in the Loess Hills north of Sioux City, is ideal for year-round indoor and outdoor troop activities. 

CAMP JULIETTE, set on 27 wooded acres within Marshalltown city limits, offers a natural environment with spring wildflowers and frequent sightings of deer. Additionally, approximately 15 day camps are held throughout the Council during the summer. 

Camperships are available to provide scholarships or tuition assistance for children and youth who may otherwise be unable to attend camp, ensuring accessibility for all participants.

Offers a food pantry that is available to area residents. Can access once per month. Perry County residents may also receive additional food from the monthly Mobile Market.

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran’s aid. VA benefits and services include Disability benefits, education and training services, home loans, burial benefits, dependents’ and survivors’ benefits, life insurance, and healthcare assistance.

Provides various behavioral health services to individuals with disabilities. Behavioral health services include psychiatric evaluation, medication management, crisis intervention, coordinated case management, outpatient individual and group therapy services, and substance use treatment for co-occurring disorders.