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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

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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
School System Advocacy
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Legal Information Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Discrimination Assistance
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Tax Information
Will Preparation Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Provides assistance to landlords in being licensed and to register all of their residential properties within the city limits.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices
Accessline 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

Legal Information Services
Legal Counseling
Advance Medical Directives
Welfare Rights Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Representation
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Tax Information
Debt Management
Elder Law
Mediation Services including Family (divorce,child custody/visitation, parenting plans), Intergenerational issues (elder care - daily or long term care, guardianship/power
of attorney, financial issues, visitation of grandchildren), Restorative justice - victim/offender, Business and Consumer matters, Employment and work place concerns, Landlord/Tenant disputes, Special education, and Other civil matters.

Large and small group facilitation.

Parent education workshop for parents experiencing divorce or have custody/visitation issues.

Family group conferencing.

Conflict resolution training.

Categories

Mediation
Conflict Resolution Training
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Accessline 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

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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
School System Advocacy
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Legal Information Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Discrimination Assistance
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Tax Information
Will Preparation Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Assists individuals or families who are at immediate risk of homelessness and seeking emergency shelter to identify safe, alternate housing arrangements, and if necessary, connect them with community referrals to help them obtain or return to housing.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Homeless Diversion Programs
Rent Payment Assistance
The Landlord Liaison Project (LLP) addresses the critical need of finding affordable housing for clients of Matt Talbot who are given a high priority on the city-wide housing list. MTKO cannot take calls from the public to assist in finding housing. We use the coordinated entry system to determine who our housing clients will be and only take on new clients if there are openings. Through this project Matt Talbot staff build constructive relationships with landlords to facilitate rapidly locating stable and safe permanent housing for individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Housing Search Assistance
Housing Authority, Section 8, HUD Housing, rental assistance and rental deposit through Section 8 and other housing programs.

Categories

Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers
Section 8/Rental Assistance Program Rental Listings
Housing Authorities
Rent Payment Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Provide assistance to landlords in being licensed and to register all of their residential properties within the city limits.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
City Government Departments/Offices
Provides assistance to prevent individuals from losing their housing and becoming homeless. This may include helping them preserve their current housing situation or identifying alternate appropriate housing options. The program provides short-term assistance via in-home case management services for up to three months. The focus of the program is on crisis resolution, linking program participants to community resources and mainstream benefits, and helping them develop a plan to prevent future housing instability.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Homelessness Prevention Programs
Investigates discrimination in housing as related to rental, sales, and lending transactions.

Inservice programs on fair housing laws for housing providers, human service agencies, etc.

Public education to help the public understand how the Fair Housing Laws protect people.

Community program development to address housing discrimination.

Information on landlord and tenant rights.

Categories

Housing Counseling
Discrimination Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Assist landlords with rental licensing requirements. Also assist tenants with non-responsive landlords in regards to maintaining the unit/structure.
Rental Inspections Program is responsible for the registration of all residential rentals in the City limits of Marshalltown. Units are inspected approximately every three years for compliance. Staff also respond to written complaints from tenants.

Categories

City Government Departments/Offices
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Provides assistance to prevent individuals from losing their housing and becoming homeless. This may include helping them preserve their current housing situation or identifying alternate appropriate housing options. The program provides short-term assistance via in-home case management services for up to three months. The focus of the program is on crisis resolution, linking program participants to community resources and mainstream benefits, and helping them develop a plan to prevent future housing instability.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Homelessness Prevention Programs
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

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

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with:

-- Subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues.

-- Evictions from mobile home parks.

-- Evictions by private landlords.

-- Discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project).

-- Foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues.

-- Housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Public/Subsidized Housing Appeals Assistance
Debt Management

Offers a mediation program in which a neutral third party helps landlords and tenants communicate to resolve issues through voluntary, mutual agreement.

Program mediators help landlords and tenants work to resolve filed eviction cases through facilitated negotiation, with the aim of avoiding the need for future court intervention and keeping families in their home by guiding parties toward compromise.

Provides legal representation for tenants given an eviction notice due to delayed rental payment associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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

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

Welfare Rights Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
School System Advocacy
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Legal Information Services
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
General Legal Aid
Debt Management
Discrimination Assistance
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Labor and Employment Law
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Patient Rights Assistance
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Tax Information
Will Preparation Assistance
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Provides assistance to prevent individuals from losing their housing and becoming homeless. This may include helping them preserve their current housing situation or identifying alternate appropriate housing options. The program provides short-term assistance via in-home case management services for up to three months. The focus of the program is on crisis resolution, linking program participants to community resources and mainstream benefits, and helping them develop a plan to prevent future housing instability.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Homelessness Prevention Programs
Accessline 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

Legal Information Services
Legal Counseling
Advance Medical Directives
Welfare Rights Assistance
Will Preparation Assistance
Housing Counseling
General Legal Aid
Legal Representation
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
Tax Information
Debt Management
Elder Law
Mediation for dispute settlement, such as divorce, child custody, small claims, consumer business, tenant/landlord, estate settlement and planning, debt, etc.

Elder mediation with families of elderly to make decisions.

Juvenile parole/probation mediation when conflict in the youth's life increases the risk of further law violation or incarceration.

Offers large group facilitation, conflict resolution training workshops, and family group conferencing.

Categories

Mediation
Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Conflict Resolution Training