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Provides independent living housing for individuals who are in transition and working to rebuild their lives. This includes veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, and independent seniors seeking a stable and supportive environment.

Provides Transitional Housing and Outreach case management and support for Single mothers with children in their care and Women aged 18-24 who have aged out of the Foster Care system.

Transitional Housing helps individuals move from homelessness and addiction to a stable living environment. MTKO currently has three Transitional Houses - one for men and one for women. Our Transitional Houses include a 5 bed men's house, a 6 bed women's house, and a 7 bed men's house. To be eligible for Transitional Housing, participants must be experiencing homelessness and have a substance use diagnosis.

Intensive case management and substance abuse counseling focused on relapse prevention work in tandem to assist residents in maintaining sobriety, accessing services, securing employment, and becoming productive members of the community.

Participants engage in weekly counseling/case management sessions. Our goals include maintaining abstinence from substances, working a program of recovery, gaining employment, saving money, working on cleaning up the wreckage of their past and transitioning to independent permanent housing.

Minimum stay is 6 months, while maximum stay is 2 years depending on the individual's circumstances. Participants are required to pay a $20.00 monthly program fee and volunteer at Matt Talbot.

Housing and support for those experiencing domestic violence and under-supported pregnancies.

Offers transitional housing and support services for Veterans experiencing homelessness. Specific case managers to assist veterans in finding affordable housing, access to appropriate health care, substance abuse services, and mental health recovery services.

Offers residential treatment programs for adults with substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders. Programs serve men and women, women with children, young adults, veterans, and essential and frontline workers. Also offers medically monitored detox and withdrawal management.

Sober living recovery homes and halfway houses provide wraparound support for individuals in early recovery. Also offers supportive housing for individuals living with mental health disorders.

Adult outpatient services include therapy, specialty care such as TMS therapy and MAT, family support and education, psychiatric care, intensive community-based case management, and fulfillment of legal behavioral healthcare requirements related to court systems.

Housing program which provides stable housing and essential support services for people with serious mental illness.

Services begin with a screening to help get people of all ages to the right treatment. May follow with individual therapy that leads to group therapy, or crisis care that leads to stable housing.

Services include:

- Individual therapy;

- Group therapy;

- Family therapy;

- Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) and medication management;

- Psychiatric services;

- Court services;

- Crisis residential/triage services, and more.

Provides transitional housing (for a fee) for seniors, ages 60 and older, and veterans. Length of stay ranges from 6 months (minimum) to 18 months (maximum). Housing services offers a room for rent, two people per room, 4 total in an apartment suite, with common areas being shared between the tenants. Individuals must be able to live independently on their own without requiring assistance.

Provides help to get young adults into safe, secure housing so they can focus on building a brighter future. These programs provide living options that center on participants achieving self-sufficiency. YSS advocates work one-on-one with the participants to create a plan to acquire safe and secure housing, stable employment, and financial stability. Programs include: Transitional Living Program (Ames, Boone, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 16-21 Rapid Rehousing (Ames, Boone, Des Moines, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 18-24 Lighthouse (Boone, Des Moines) - Families with parents ages 16-24 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Des Moines) - Single individuals or families ages 18-24 based on income

Provides help to get young adults into safe, secure housing so they can focus on building a brighter future. These programs provide living options that center on participants achieving self-sufficiency. YSS advocates work one-on-one with the participants to create a plan to acquire safe and secure housing, stable employment, and financial stability. Programs include: Transitional Living Program (Ames, Boone, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 16-21 Rapid Rehousing (Ames, Boone, Des Moines, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 18-24 Lighthouse (Boone, Des Moines) - Families with parents ages 16-24 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Des Moines) - Single individuals or families ages 18-24 based on income

Provides help to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, depression, or transition from jail. Services include immediate food and shelter needs, including both transitional and permanent housing, job training, life skills development, and education, financial support to prevent homelessness, addiction and depression treatment, health and dental care, and justice system navigation and community reentry from jail.

Outpatient and intensive outpatient substance abuse treatment program offering a continuum of care from evaluation to education/intervention to treatment and aftercare for adolescents and adults experiencing life area problems due to misuse, abuse, or dependence on alcohol/drugs. Individualized treatment services provided in individual, family, and group counseling sessions.

Inpatient treatment for adults available in Elgin.

- Provides transitional shelter for up to 24 months and assistance in finding permanent shelter.

- Offers rent assistance.

Adult Co-occurring Disorders Residential Treatment Program offers transitional housing and residential treatment for adults 19 and over with co-occurring severe and persistent mental illness and substance dependence. Services include individual, group, and family counseling; recreational therapy; case management; and psychiatric services. Expected stay of 6-8 months.

Community Transitions provides psychiatric residential rehabilitation services in a residential setting to prepare adults with serious mental illness for community living.

Provides a substance abuse free environment for men suffering from drugs or alcohol addiction. Services include a 12-month residential program, while in the program, the resident will follow a disciplined regimen. Residents attend chapel, prayer service, classroom sessions, work projects and study hall each day. Basic services include food, clothing, personal hygiene supplies, medical exam, health services, and legal services.

Provides a 16-bed emergency housing to women and children. For those who show commitment to being substance-free and investing in themselves, long-term transitional housing may be available.

While at the shelter there is assistance to find employment with services such as resume assistance, getting signed up for long-term assistance, childcare/parenting assistance from local partners, mental health evaluation, education, and housing within 90- 120 days. 

Provides transitional housing available to individuals with HIV experiencing homelessness. Provides up to 24 months of housing with linkage and referrals to services, depending on individual needs. May provide the following referrals medical services, mental health services, substance abuse treatment, and others as needed. 

If HIV-negative, see PC3 program.

Provides emergency shelter and longer-term housing opportunities and supportive services for single adults and families experiencing homelessness and extreme housing instability.

- Administers the Section 8 program.

- Offers the Home Tenant Based Rental Assistance Program, a transitional program for the homeless or persons with disabilities with an agency referral.

- Offers the Mod Rehab program, which attaches Housing Choice Vouchers to privately owned units that are rehabilitated.

- Provides subsidized housing information.

Provides housing for chronically homeless adults. This program allows for a focus on specific Chronically Homeless sub-populations in need in the community, such as women, persons with mental illness, substance abuse problems, or dual diagnosis; veterans; or those with HIV/AIDS.

Provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, mental health, or justice involvement. Services include immediate food and shelter assistance, including both transitional and permanent housing, outreach to community shelters and places not meant for human habitation, job training, life skills development, and education, financial support to prevent homelessness, addiction and mental health treatment, and justice system navigation and community reentry from incarceration.

Provides services to veterans who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless due to financial hardship, unemployment, addiction, mental health, or justice involvement. Services include immediate food and shelter assistance, including both transitional and permanent housing, outreach to community shelters and places not meant for human habitation, job training, life skills development, and education, financial support to prevent homelessness, addiction and mental health treatment, and justice system navigation and community reentry from incarceration.