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Offers home health care and hospice services. Care may include:

• Regular visits to patient's home to provide care.

  - Coordinate services needed from other healthcare providers, including doctors, therapists, social workers and nurse aides.

• Keeps family and primary care physician informed about progress and care plan.

  VNA will also answer questions about hospice care or end-of-life questions, even if a patient is not ready for hospice care at this time. Topics include:

• Advance directives.

• End-of-life issues.

• Making plans to provide care for a loved one with a terminal illness.

• Grief and loss issues.

• Understanding palliative care vs. curative treatment.

Meets with clients to discuss Senior Living services for a family member, loved one, or friend. Discusses the options from Independent Living, Assisted Living, Supportive Living, Memory Care and Skilled Nursing.

Agency staff are not affiliated with any Senior Living Community; will only discuss services available.  Staff will not make recommendations on any specific community, but may assist with scheduling tours and advises clients of the tools needed and questions to ask when touring a community.  If requested, AgeLinc's Director of Development may accompany clients on tours.

Fitness opportunities including cardio and weight training, fitness classes, personal and group training, basketball courts, racquetball courts, as well as a pool, hot tub, steam room, and saunas. Classes and other amenities vary based on location.

Provides on-site child watch, swim lessons, and dance and tumbling classes.

Youth sports.

Day camps during out of school time.

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.

Offers Child Care Expense Assistance through the Iowa Department of Human services is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are absent for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment. APPLY TO BE A REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDER. SEARCH FOR REGISTERED CHILD CARE PROVIDERS at www.hhs.iowa.gov

Provides telehealth individual, couples, and family therapy, mental health evaluations, and psychiatric medication management for anxiety, depression, trauma, anger, behavior problems, relationship problems, personality disorders, and chronic mental illness.

Nutrition education to adults and youth of limited resources about healthy eating and food resources to improve food resource management skills. The program offers lessons in the areas of diet quality, food safety, and food resource management individually or in small groups.

Offers federally subsidized apartments for low income families.

Provides assistance to people with little to no income in obtaining pro bono legal assistance from area lawyers and attorneys in specialized fields while also providing compassion, empathy, and a listening ear to all who come seeking help. Through the CCLS program, the program director matches a client's legal case with an area lawyer who has agreed to represent him/her in the court of law.

CCLS provides assistance in the areas of adoption, bankruptcy, child custody and support, debt elimination, employment, environmental issues, family Law, guardianship, immigration, landlord-tenant disputes, real estate transactions, social security benefits, traffic accidents, and wills and probate.

Offers preventive and restorative dental services for eligible children. Children must be accompanied by a parent, legal guardian or designated proxy.

Services include: 

• Cleanings.

  - Dental sealants.

• Extractions.

• Exams.

• Fillings.

• Fluoride treatments.

  - Preventive education.

• X-rays.

Provides court mandated parenting education for custody disputes and is designed to help parents learn how to make informed, child-supportive decisions during separation and divorce. Individual sessions are available for an additional fee. Meets the 4-hour parenting education requirement of Illinois Rule 924.

Provides education and training in approved training programs in local community colleges. Can help with the cost of tuition, books, fees, required tools, and any additional items required by the program. Program also provides a work experience and on-the-job training component. 

Work Experience offers subsidizes wages at a local employer for 1 to 6 months to help customer gain experience to gain permanent employment.

On-The-Job Training offers subsidizes half of hourly wage for a set period of time at a local employer with the intention of the employer retaining the customer after training is complete.

Provides a food pantry.

Home-delivered meals for seniors aged 60 and over; provides a hot lunch meal.

Provides youth suicide prevention and accessible mental health services focused on early intervention, stabilization, and long-term emotional wellness. Services include:

- Individual Therapy (Ages 9–26): Outpatient, one-on-one therapeutic support focused on emotional regulation, coping skills, trauma processing, and mental health stabilization.

- Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP) (Ages 12–18): Structured, multi-day-per-week therapeutic programming for youth requiring a higher level of care while remaining in the community and attending school.

- Youth Mentorship Services: Strength-based mentoring that supports emotional growth, resilience, goal-setting, and connection to positive community supports.

- Intensive Home-Based Therapy: In-home clinical and therapeutic services designed to support youth and families in their natural environment, strengthen family functioning, and reduce crisis escalation.

LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) assists low-income homeowners and renters pay for a portion of their primary heating costs for the winter heating season. Also encourages households to make regular utility payments, to promote energy awareness and to encourage reduction of energy usage. All customers applying for this prgram will simultaneously be making an application for weatherization assistance as required by state law. Assistance is based on household income. size, type of fuel, and type of housing. Applications accepted October 1-April 30 for the elderly and disabled households and November 1-April 30 for the rest of the households.