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Advance health care planning information and services available to help ensure that individual's health care preferences are discussed, documented and honored.
Provides legal representation in civil cases for low-income eligible Story County residents. Services include civil protective orders (domestic, sexual, and elder abuse), dissolution of marriage, child custody, visitation, will, power of attorney, paternity, guardianship, conservatorship, debtor/creditor, landlord/tenant, unemployment benefits appeals.

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Consumer Law
Legal Representation
Labor and Employment Law
Unemployment Insurance Benefits Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
General Legal Aid
Will Preparation Assistance
Protective/Restraining Orders
Advance Medical Directives

Provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Counseling
Welfare Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Advance Medical Directives
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Elder Law
Housing Counseling
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy

Connects individuals and their faith community to needed healthcare and wellness support. Program provides access to education, screenings, and other healthcare resources.

Services include:

-- Health screenings (blood pressure, medication reviews, body mass index, and more)

-- Health promotion and education programs that cover topics like chronic disease, advance care planning, fitness, nutrition, and CPR

-- Assistance with navigating healthcare systems

-- Assistance with connecting to healthcare resources, community organizations, and other supportive programs

Categories

BMI/Body Composition Screening
General Health Education Programs
Blood Pressure Screening
Advance Medical Directives
Community Wellness Programs

Provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Counseling
Welfare Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Advance Medical Directives
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Elder Law
Housing Counseling
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law

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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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

Provides free legal advice, brief service and representation to low-income people on areas such as: consumer law, family law, housing law, public benefits, disability benefits, employment/unemployment, public benefits, clearing a criminal history and educational rights.

After contacting one of the hotlines, cases may be referred to Legal Aid local offices for extended representation.

Private Attorney Involvement Program links clients to attorneys in their local area for free legal services in family law matters.

Taxpayer clinics educate low-income taxpayers about their tax rights and responsibilities and how to file for low-income tax credit.

Homeless Assistance Project (Douglas and Lancaster Counties) provides assistance with family law, child support modification, bankruptcy, license revocation, and disability claims.

Migrant Worker program provides civil legal services to migrant farm workers.

Housing counseling assists people who are homeless by making referrals and assessing their legal needs. Assists renters who are having problems getting things fixed, need help with landlord issues, or are facing eviction; work with HUD issues; assist home buyers or home owners with questions, etc.

Assists in the following areas, in addition to the programs already noted: Bankruptcy, Foreclosure, Landlord-Tenant, Utility Shutoffs, Public Benefits, Unemployment, Family Law (including Divorce, Custody/Visitation, Child Support, Domestic Abuse).

Categories

Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Legal Counseling
Welfare Rights Assistance
Tax Information
Advance Medical Directives
General Legal Aid
Legal Information Services
Elder Law
Housing Counseling
Legal Representation
Debt Management
Labor and Employment Law

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.

Categories

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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy

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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Guardianship Assistance
Elder Law
Advance Medical Directives
Provides physical, emotional, and spiritual support for patients with a terminal illness. A team partners with the patient and family to determine a care plan that incorporates the patient's wishes. Care is provided in the home or care facility. Patients who require 24/7 nursing care may be placed in an Inpatient Hospice unit.
National consumer engagement initiative to improve care at the end of life.

Free brochures and web information on a wide range of end-of-life topics including advance care planning, caregiving, hospice and palliative care, grief and loss, and pain.

Referrals to local hospice providers.

Categories

Advance Medical Directives
Hospice Care
Hospice Care Referrals
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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy

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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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

Will Preparation Assistance
Consumer Law
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Discrimination Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
General Legal Aid
Patient Rights Assistance
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
Advance Medical Directives
Tax Information
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Adoption Legal Services
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Debt Management
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
School System Advocacy