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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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Life Skills Education
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Personal Financial Counseling

Provides individualized financial counseling to individuals and families. Aims to bring individuals and families out of poverty and improve the financial stability of low- and moderate-income persons throughout the city. Areas of service include:

- Improving credit score.

- Creating a savings plan.

- Reducing debt.

- General money management.

- Safe banking.

- Home ownership planning/management.

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.

Works to improve the community's social and economic conditions. Programs are offered in three core service areas of ducation, workforce development and money management.

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High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Mentoring Programs
Personal Financial Counseling
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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Temporary Financial Assistance
Personal Financial 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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Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
Family Life Education
Nutrition Education
Food Safety Education
Parenting Skills Classes
Home Management Instruction

Provides one-on-one financial counseling and coaching, including a complete in-depth budget analysis, an individualized financial action plan that outlines steps to be taken, and a benefits check to determine what other resources or programs might be of assistance to achieve financial stability.

Offers financial counseling to help farmers with financial planning and analysis. Services are provided one-on-one and specialists will arrange to meet the farmer for sessions at times and locations that meet the client's needs.
Offers online activities for children and families, family resources for parents, and money management resources.

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Family Resource Centers/Outreach
Personal Financial Counseling
Home Based Parenting Education
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.
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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Native American General Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Case/Care Management
Personal Financial Counseling
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Provides financial counseling services to Eastern Iowa. Counseling and educational programming is held in-person and online. Services include housing, budget and credit counseling and financial literacy programs. The goal is to improve the financial capability of those seeking services, as well as raise the level of financial stability in the community.
Offers credit counseling, debt relief and management through budget and credit counseling restructuring of monthly debt payments. Types of debts in which CCS can be most beneficial to clients are credit card, medical bills, and finance company debts. Target population are clients that generate enough income to cover their monthly living expenses but run short each month on their debt servicing.

Provides pre-purchase home buyer classes and counseling help clients decide whether homeownership is the best decision for them. These classes and counseling may also qualify clients for substantial down payment assistance programs.

Foreclosure avoidance and default intervention counseling is designed to help with whatever options there may be to save clients' homes, or get caught up on payments.

Reverse Mortgage Counseling is available for seniors desiring to stay in their homes by using their equity to produce lump sums for current needs, annuity payments and lines of credit for ongoing needs.

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Housing Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling
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.
Extension and Outreach provides workshops on money management and personal finances at various times and locations throughout the year. Also have print materials and online information regarding these topics.

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 Counseling
Gambling Disorder Support Groups
Anger Management
Personal Financial Counseling

Provides pre-purchase home buyer classes and counseling help clients decide whether homeownership is the best decision for them. These classes and counseling may also qualify clients for substantial down payment assistance programs.

Foreclosure avoidance and default intervention counseling is designed to help with whatever options there may be to save clients' homes, or get caught up on payments.

Reverse Mortgage Counseling is available for seniors desiring to stay in their homes by using their equity to produce lump sums for current needs, annuity payments and lines of credit for ongoing needs.

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Housing Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Personal Financial Counseling

Allows clients to establish an affordable repayment plan with their creditors. MMI acts as an intermediary, negotiating lower monthly payments and reducing/waiving interest rates and penalty fees.

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

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 Counseling
Gambling Disorder Support Groups
Anger Management
Personal Financial Counseling