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Provides a safe place for at-risk and homeless youth (ages 16-24) in the Polk County area to connect with services. Services include street outreach, drop-in services, daily meals, emergency beds, an art studio, a computer lab, and mental health counseling options. 

The center also offers connections to additional YSS supportive housing programs, such as Lighthouses, Transitional Living Program, and Rapid Re-housing. Supportive services may include educational opportunities, life skills training, financial planning, and counseling to help youth and young adults, including single mothers and their infants, achieve self-sufficiency and progress toward their goals.

Provides outreach support and transitional housing services to young adults experiencing a housing crisis or trying to prevent one. Outreach services offer survival aid, help finding and keeping a job, safety planning, educational supports, legal aid, medication connections, emotional support, and emergency housing. Transitional housing services allows a limited number of apartments for young adults experiencing a housing crisis. While in the housing program individuals will be taught independence, how to keep a job, assistance with finishing their education, and staying connected to lots of other services. 

Offers a long-term residential program (9 to 12 months) that offers comprehensive help and hope to men, women, and children in desperate circumstances such as addiction, domestic violence, or destructive relationships Provides, spiritual guidance, recovery and relapse prevention training, general life skills training and application, mentoring, physical fitness and wellness coaching, art and music therapy, cultural recreation, and child care assistance.

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

Coordinated Entry is the front door to homeless services. It is the first point of contact for those who need housing assistance. It provides guidance to anyone experiencing homelessness to the correct support and housing programs most appropriate to their situation.

PROACTIVE AND SHORT-TERM PROGRAMS
STREET OUTREACH: collaborate with local partners to meet individuals and families experiencing homelessness where they are and offer assistance in camps and on the street.
LIBRARY OUTREACH: regular hours at libraries in Ames, Boone and Marshalltown where people experiencing homelessness can meet with a case worker and work on a housing plan.
EMERGENCY SHELTER: short-term emergency shelter and housing support services for individuals and families experiencing homelessness. Provides food, financial education, and health and wellbeing assistance.

LONG-TERM PROGRAMS
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: client-focused services based on the degree of need and the severity of barriers individual/families are facing. Will help clients secure affordable housing and provide the tools needed to overcome financial barriers and maintain a permanent home. Individualized support services, including life skills counseling, employment assistance, budgeting and financial literacy, and community resources referrals are also provided.

CONNECTION TO COMMUNITY SERVICES: connects clients to various external programs and community resources to help them achieve sustainable, healthy outcomes.

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 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 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.

Offers a transitional living center for homeless veterans who want a chance to rebuild their lives. Many veterans enroll after undergoing intensive substance abuse treatment. Clients must undergo a screening process and abide by all rules while a part of the center. Graduates are encouraged to enroll in TLS-Aftercare, a program that offers ongoing support and crisis intervention within the community.

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.

Community housing program offering stable housing and essential support services.

Services within this program:

- Individual therapy.

- Group therapy.

- Family therapy.

- Psychiatric services.

- Intensive community-based treatment.

- Crisis services.

- Court services.

Oversees care for adults with serious mental illness. Services include case management, psychiatry, and medication management, as well as outreach for everything from job training to primary healthcare to daily life skills.

Provides transitional house with support services to prepare individuals for a transition into the community.

Community housing program offering stable housing and essential support services.

Services within this program:

- Individual therapy.

- Group therapy.

- Family therapy.

- Psychiatric services.

- Intensive community-based treatment.

- Crisis services.

- Court services.

Oversees care for adults with serious mental illness. Services include case management, psychiatry, and medication management, as well as outreach for everything from job training to primary healthcare to daily life skills.

Community housing program offering stable housing and essential support services.

Services within this program:

- Individual therapy.

- Group therapy.

- Family therapy.

- Psychiatric services.

- Intensive community-based treatment.

- Crisis services.

- Court services.

Oversees care for adults with serious mental illness. Services include case management, psychiatry, and medication management, as well as outreach for everything from job training to primary healthcare to daily life skills.

Short-term residence and program support to homeless families trying to get back on their feet. Family service plans are developed, offering counseling, support groups, and budgeting classes. Applicants must be a family unit, no individuals. Short term residence consists of 6 months to 2 years.