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Provides peer support counseling, information and referral to services that help disabled individuals, skills training, advocacy for persons with disabilities and their families and disability awareness and leadership education. Working with individuals in their homes or in locations convenient to the individual.

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Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Specialized Information and Referral
Centers for Independent Living
Disease/Disability Registries
Legal services for persons age 60 and over and their spouses. Specializes in elder law and provides assistance with simple wills, powers of attorney for health care, living wills, durable powers of attorney, Medicare/Medicaid, etc.

Assesses, counsels, and determines the need for guardianship for disabled elderly adults who are no longer able to make sound judgments on their own. Staff will coordinate with physicians and attorneys and then will secure an appropriate decision maker and testify in court as to the need of a guardian. Also offers alternative services to guardianship, such as Power of Attorneys and referrals to other agencies, and information and education about guardianship to families.

Provides services and programs for Rochelle area senior citizens. Offers nutritious meal, meet with friends over coffee, play pool, play cards, take a computer, exercise, or a yoga class, join the quilting, crafting groups or the book club. Many other activities are available.

Offers information and assistance in applying for state benefit programs and Medicare counseling.

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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Medicare Information/Counseling
Congregate Meals/Nutrition Sites
Senior Centers
Provides help to those needing to find safety. Offering support with a trained Advocate in the criminal justice and social service systems and accompanied to law enforcement meetings and court proceedings. In addition there is help with opportunities for community education and counseling services.

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Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Crime Victim/Witness Counseling
Crime Victim Support

Acts as a neutral third party to coordinate services and give support to children who have been abused and their non-offending family members. Services include referrals for medical treatment, trauma assessments, referrals for counseling and caregiver education through the Center for Counseling, in-person support during court proceedings, and community prevention and awareness presentations.

Advocates for residents living in licensed long term care facilities.

Services to help survivors of domestic violence, older adults, people with disabilities, and immigrant survivors of violence and trafficking:

-- Orders of Protection for people experiencing domestic violence.

-- Divorce, custody, or child support in cases involving domestic violence or child endangerment.

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Other court orders to stop abuse, harassment, or stalking.

-- Immigration issues faced by survivors of domestic violence and trafficking.

-- Guardianships of minors and adults to ensure safety and stability.

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Protective/Restraining Orders
Immigration/Naturalization Legal Services
Health Related Advocacy Groups
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Caregiver services are available to informal or family caregivers of persons over the age of 60 or to grandparents raising grandchildren.

Services can include respite care (services that give caregivers a rest), home modification, assistive devices, transportation, and financial assistance.

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Home Barrier Evaluation/Removal Services
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment
Caregiver Counseling
Adult In Home Respite Care

Provides legal services in order to help with the following:

-- Elder abuse, including financial exploitation.

-- Guardianship of adults to ensure health care.

-- Nursing home and home care issues.

-- Powers of attorney and other advance directives.

-- SSI and social security denials, cessations, terminations, overpayments, and garnishments.

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Elder Law
Guardianship Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Advance Medical Directives

Legal service program that helps:

-- Individuals and families obtain and maintain Medicaid and Medicare and obtain coverage for services needed.

-- With medical assistance denials, terminations, spend down issues (Medicaid, Medicare).

-- Older adults and people with disabilities get the help needed to remain in their own home or secure coverage for long-term care.

-- Older adults and people with disabilities establish powers of attorney.

-- With nursing home discharges.

-- Family members obtain guardianship or other legal authority to care for loved ones.

-- People with HIV/AIDS obtain care and services.

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General Benefits and Services Assistance
Medicaid Information/Counseling
Elder Law
Health Related Advocacy Groups

Offers direct services and advocacy to deaf, hard of hearing, and deaf-blind survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Program provides legal, medical and one-on-one DV/SA counseling. Can also offer community presentations, including cultural sensitivity training about interacting with deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing individuals.

Anyone in a crisis can call the hotline listed, or send an email to: [email protected]

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Sexual Assault Counseling
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Provides advocacy and education to individuals with disabilities and their families.

Categories

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Provides advocacy, information, and support to the victims of domestic violence throughout both civil and criminal court proceedings. Court advocates assist clients in completing orders of protection and understanding their legal rights regarding domestic violence, and also advocates for them before the presiding judges. Program also provides community referrals and advocacy for clients.
Investigates employment discrimination cases for individuals who are employed in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

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Discrimination Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Federally-trained Certified Application Counselors (CACs) on staff to assist with questions about Medicaid, SHIP and the Affordable Care Act. CACs are available to meet to provide a consultation and assist with the enrollment process.

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Certificates/Forms Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Affordable Care Act Insurance Information/Counseling
Medicare Information/Counseling
Works to resolve problems and complaints from, and on behalf of, residents of nursing homes or assisted living facilities.

Information and assistance on questions and concerns related to long-term care and residents' rights to residents, family members and others.

Education on long-term care and residents' rights to facility staff and community groups.

Advocates for the rights and interests of residents on a systemic basis.

Categories

Consumer Complaints
Long Term Care Ombudsman Programs
Patient Rights Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Tax Information
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
School System Advocacy
Legal Representation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Adoption Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Tax Information
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
School System Advocacy
Legal Representation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Adoption Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Supports individuals, family members, and/or significant others in their deliberations to determine care choices based on the individual's needs/preferences, values, and individual circumstances.

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Long Term Care Options Counseling
Medicaid Information/Counseling
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Case/Care Management
Access to the agency's digital devices for the purposes of making and attending virtual medical and mental health appointments. Individuals can receive assistance to apply for mental health services with licensed professionals through our partner Lutheran Family Services. Staff can assist in applying for services. Assists individuals who need help applying for Medicaid so that they have easier access to the healthcare they need.

Provides abuse and crisis intervention services to those going through a domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or sex trafficking situation. Services include a family violence crisis line, counseling or counseling referrals for survivors of domestic violence or sexual assault, emergency shelter and transportation, peer support groups, and child advocacy.

Protection order assistance, criminal justice/legal advocacy, and medical advocacy are also available to those who may need it.

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Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention
Sexual Assault Shelters
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Shelters
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Tax Information
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Protective/Restraining Orders
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Debt Management
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Discrimination Assistance
Welfare Rights Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
School System Advocacy
Legal Representation
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Consumer Law
Adoption Legal Services
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Advocacy for people in any stage of a life involved in sex trafficking or sexual exploitation.

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Human Trafficking Counseling
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Provides a safe environment for forensic interviews and medical evaluations of a child victim, 18 years or under, who is alleged to have been a victim of child sexual abuse, serious physical abuse and neglect, witness to a violent crime, recovered from a kidnapping, or found in a drug endangered environment. Services accessed after hours via on-call coverage for law enforcement needing immediate assistance with a forensic interview of a child victim/witness.

Advocacy and support for the child victim and non-offending family members throughout the investigation and prosecution of the case, including Court School.

Training for community professionals on the investigation, prosecution and treatment of child abuse and neglect cases.

Community education focused on identification and reporting of abuse, as well as Darkness to Light: Stewards of Children emphasizing our roles in understanding the facts and minimizing opportunities for child sexual abuse.

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Child Abuse Prevention
Child Advocacy Centers
Child Sexual Assault Prevention