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Offers students free bus rides on all fixed routes operated by Cedar Rapids Transit. Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) high school students, and Coe College, and Kirkwood Community College students will need to show their student ID. CRCSD middle and high school students are required to show ID. Elementary students are not required to show ID.

Eligible participants receive subsidized or free bus tickets or transit passes to use for commuting to and from work until the date of the first paycheck.

Participants interested in the program must arrive at the Housing Stability Clinic (until Oct 14, 2025) during the designated times and state they are there for the bus ticket program. Starting Oct 14, 2025, participants must go to the main Omaha office for tickets (812 South 24th Street).

Participants must demonstrate a need for transportation assistance due to lack of access to a personal vehicle, limited public transportation options, or financial constraints.

For questions, contact Kasey Myers at [email protected] or Destiny Thomson at [email protected]

Provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.

Offers help with limited financial assistance (as funding allows) for basic needs such as rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, and more.

Clients must participate in ongoing case management.

Provides qualifying applicants (households) financial assistance in the form of vouchers for gasoline, clothing, work boots, and also makes monetary payments to third parties for the payment of rent bills to prevent evictions, utility bills to prevent shut-offs, and car repairs. Each household is limited in the amount of financial assistance it may receive in a calendar year.

Provides assistance to out-of-school youth ages 16-24 who are overcoming barriers to employment. Participants engage in academic programming to obtain a high school diploma or equivalency certificate and skill-building activities in construction or urban agriculture, such as building or rehabilitating housing for low-income families. Leadership development includes classes, activities, and organizational leadership roles.

The program provides transportation expense assistance, such as bus tokens or other financial support, for those who have no means of transportation. Additionally, assistance is available for individuals who have experienced discrimination or unfair treatment based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or marital status. Services target youth facing low income, homelessness, or involvement with the judicial system.

Provides financial assistance for those experiencing financial hardship from a layoff, mental health issues, or strain from medical bills. Various assistance includes, rent and mortgage assistance, food help, transportation expense help, and prescription medication costs assistance.

Offers help with limited financial assistance (as funding allows) for basic needs such as rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, and more.

Clients must participate in ongoing case management.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which helps individuals with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - Based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - Provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Short-term services and supports (STSS) - Include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (time- limited, not covered by insurance). For STSS, individuals will engage in a short-term person-centered plan around services and supports.

- Long-term services and supports - Includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Provides emergency rent and utility assistance, burial expense, transportation for transient individuals, and other basic needs case by case for low-income individuals and families in Story County.

Provides a bus pass, up to 90-days, to individuals who lack transportation to get to their employment and maintain employment. Must already have employment with at least 1 paystub to qualify.

Provides door-to-door and fixed route transportation services. Transportation passes also available for purchase.

Provides various types of financial assistance to individuals in need. Appropriate assistance is determined after a home visit. Types of assistance may include gifts of food, clothing, and gas cards, rent and mortgage assistance, moving expense assistance, medical bills, and assistance utility bills assistance.

Provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.

Provides relief to county residents to help in removing barriers to self-sufficiency and encourage self-support. Assistance may available in the areas of of fuel, rent, clothing, groceries, prescriptions, heat and electricity, burial services, or other basic needs services. Relief payments are made to service providers, not to the clients themselves.

Provides financial help for bus or train tickets so individuals can travel safely back home to family. 

Provides short-term emergency type assistance to individuals lacking the resources to meet their basic needs. It is not intended to provide on-going, long-term aid to any individual and/or family. Funds cannot be used for any utility or rent deposits. Funds cannot be used to reconnect utilities once disconnected.

The Campbell Fund distributes funds to those that are considered very low income for temporary financial needs. Help given is to cover basic needs.

The Campbell fund will consider the following requests: medical needs (including dental and vision), city utilities (excluding deposits and late fees), gas and electric utilities (excluding deposits), rent only if need is caused by medical issues or domestic violence, grocery vouchers - one-time emergency, and People Rides.

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to “fill gaps”, either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.