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Utilizes volunteers to work with seniors on budgeting, sorting through mail, checkbook balancing, and bill paying. This program assists seniors 60 years of age and older who need assistance due to physical or mental disabilities, unpaid bills, inability to read or write, loss of home due to foreclosure, or threats of utility shut-off.

Provides budget and debt counseling and education. Also offers HUD-approved Housing Counseling and education including: pre-purchase, mortgage default and foreclosure prevention, bankruptcy counseling and education and credit report review.

Debt Management Program (DMP) also available for clients to pay unsecured debt (credit cards and loans) at reduced interest and fees.

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Housing Counseling
Personal Financial Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
The ISU Extension and Outreach office offers education in the areas of: family financial management, including budget and credit counseling; consumer decision making; nutrition and health; food preservation and food safety; strengthening family relationships; child care issues; parenting education; and other family life topics.

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Family Life Education
Financial Literacy Training
Home Management Instruction
Parenting Skills Classes
Personal Financial Counseling
Food Safety Education
Nutrition Education
Offers comprehensive credit counseling services, including certified credit counselors to advise on managing your money and debts, help with developing a budget, and free educational materials and workshops. Also offers debt management services to provide immediate help to those who are in a financial crisis and a long-term plan for debt-free living.
Provides free training classes in areas of the four wheels (physical, relational, emotional and spiritual) to help neighbors in need move forward in developing healthy, self-sustaining lifestyles. One to one mentoring is also available. Optional child care (up to age 12) and an evening meal are offered.
Offers budget, credit, and debt counseling and VA Fiduciary Services and Social Security representative payee-Government benefits are directly deposited into an FMCCI account and the beneficiary's bills are paid.

Negotiates with current creditors to lower or eliminate the interest rate (typically to 2% to 8%) and have clients debt-free in five years or less. There is no prepayment penalty. Clients can leave the program at any time, although the creditors may return the interest rates to previous levels. Regardless of how many creditors are owed, this program works on a single, consolidated monthly payment.

Debt counseling at low cost.

Budgeting assistance.

Pre-filing bankruptcy counseling.

Help interpreting credit reports.

Housing education and counseling.

Community education and speaker's bureau, educational information for companies experiencing layoffs.

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Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
Debt Management
Housing Counseling
Case managers assist families and individuals experiencing a personal crisis. Information and referrals provided for a variety of needs. Direct services include budgeting, funeral assistance, elder care services, and application/forms assistance for tribal and government programs.

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Case/Care Management
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Native American General Assistance

Provides help to individuals with develop and to achieve life goals. Offers participants social-emotional support and acts as a bridge in making connections to immediate needs, as well as developing life-changing skills. The program has 3 phases, each phase lasting 60 days. The participant will meet one on one with a Fountain of Youth professional each week to see how they are progressing with their goals and what can be done to help. This program consists of each participant making an individual success plan that pertains to one of the following areas: knowledge of self and others, citizenship, basic life skills, education, health and wellbeing, financial literacy and workplace success. The program is a minimum of 60 days commitment and a maximum of 6 months.


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Personal Financial Counseling
Life Skills Education
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Free evaluations, assessments, and interventions for problem gamblers. Help line service available 24 hours.

Five week family education program for anyone who wants to learn more about the affects of addiction.

Individual and group counseling.

Presentations to schools, community groups, churches, lawyers, probation, judges and businesses.

Substance abuse evaluations and individual counseling.

Mental health assessments and counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Overspending assessments and counseling.

Financial budgeting assistance.

Anger management.

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Gambling Disorder Support Groups
Anger Management
Personal Financial Counseling
Gambling Disorder Counseling
The ISU Extension and Outreach office offers education in the areas of: family financial management, including budget and credit counseling; consumer decision making; nutrition and health; food preservation and food safety; strengthening family relationships; child care issues; parenting education; and other family life topics.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Family Life Education
Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
Food Safety Education
Home Management Instruction
Nutrition Education
Iowa State University Extension and Outreach provides free financial coaching assistance by trained volunteers.
Case managers assist families and individuals experiencing a personal crisis. Information and referrals provided for a variety of needs. Direct services include budgeting, funeral assistance, elder care services, and application/forms assistance for tribal and government programs.

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Case/Care Management
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Native American General Assistance

Provides assistance to limited-income seniors who need help managing their finances. The level of care provided is based on the need of the person. The goal of the program is to assist low-income seniors and persons with disability (who are financially exploited) to assure independence and to prevent pre-mature institutional care and abuse.

The program helps with such bill-paying activities as opening and organizing mail, setting up budgets, and balancing checkbooks for seniors who remain in control of their finances, but need some help keeping things in order.

Representative Payee volunteers help clients manage their Social Security benefits, if the client is unable to handle his or her own finances. The Representative Payee volunteer manages and pays the client's expenses from an account into which the Social Security benefit is automatically deposited.

Offers to learn about persons situation and needs, then help explore options and steps to help stabilize resources. Program support included but not limited to financial assistance, resource referral, budgeting and finance help, prayer and encouragement. Please enter the north door on the east side of the building.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Temporary Financial Assistance
Offers to learn about persons situation and needs, then help explore options and steps to help stabilize resources. Program support included but not limited to financial assistance, resource referral, budgeting and finance help, prayer and encouragement. Please enter the north door on the east side of the building.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Temporary Financial Assistance
Offers to learn about persons situation and needs, then help explore options and steps to help stabilize resources. Program support included but not limited to financial assistance, resource referral, budgeting and finance help, prayer and encouragement. Please enter the north door on the east side of the building.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Temporary Financial Assistance

Provides pre-filing counseling about filing for bankruptcy and pre-discharge education.

Provides financial counseling, debt management plan, credit report reviews, bankruptcy counseling and education, and pre-purchase education.

Families suffering under the burden of debt can speak with a real attorney at no charge, to determine if bankruptcy would allow them a fresh start.

Those falling behind on mortgage payments may discuss how a chapter 13 bankruptcy can stop foreclosure and save the family home.

Free evaluations, assessments, and interventions for problem gamblers. Help line service available 24 hours.

Five week family education program for anyone who wants to learn more about the affects of addiction.

Individual and group counseling.

Presentations to schools, community groups, churches, lawyers, probation, judges and businesses.

Substance abuse evaluations and individual counseling.

Mental health assessments and counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Overspending assessments and counseling.

Financial budgeting assistance.

Anger management.

Categories

Gambling Disorder Support Groups
Anger Management
Personal Financial Counseling
Gambling Disorder Counseling
Offers a home visiting program that works with families on budgeting, parenting, and goal setting. This is a voluntary program to help families in need.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Home Based Parenting Education