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Provides emergency assistance to individuals and families who find themselves without the basic necessities for survival. Funding is limited to rent assistance, utility and water assistance, clothing and winter coat vouchers, and emergency food.

Each individual will be interviewed to determine the need, the best method to meet that need, and offer life skills guidance to prevent further occurrence of the emergency situation. Referrals are made to other human services agencies when appropriate.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rent Payment Assistance
Winter Clothing
General Housing Expense Assistance
Clothing Vouchers
Provide medications, medical supplies and equipment to those needing help. Must have a prescription from health care provider to provide medications.

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Medical Expense Assistance

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Community Response is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. The goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Mental Health Expense Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Medical Expense Assistance
Work Clothing
Case/Care Management
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral

When funding allows, may be able to help with limited financial assistance for basic needs such as childcare payments, rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, car repairs, transportation, prescription costs, etc., through the Community Services Block Grant. Eligibility requirements will apply, and ongoing case management will be required. Contact your local County Outreach Office for more information.

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Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Child Care Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Personal/Grooming Needs
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Food Vouchers
Rental Deposit Assistance
Provides comprehensive HIV care. Provides clinical trials, education/information, medication services, social services and community referrals, HIV specific financial programs, counseling, psychiatry services, referrals to HIV-experienced professionals in other specializations, case management.

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Disease/Disability Information
HIV Testing
AIDS/HIV Prevention Counseling
AIDS/HIV Clinics
Prescription Medication Services

Provides financial assistance for those experiencing financial hardship from a layoff, mental health issues, or strain from medical bills. Various assistance includes, rent, utilities, gas vouchers and prescriptions.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Provides sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment as well as Hepatitis A, B and C testing. Can also prescribe medications for those living with HIV.

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Sexually Transmitted Infection Treatment
Prescription Medication Services
Sexually Transmitted Infection Screening
Hepatitis Testing

Provides assistance to individuals who have demonstrated a verifiable need for Dental Assistance, Physician Services, and Prescriptions Assistance, when funding is available. This program pays directly to the vendor.

Patients can fill prescriptions after an appointment, have current prescriptions filled or transferred at any time. Also offer a 340B Prescription Drug Discount Program.

Patients in need of help paying for a prescription can obtain assistance through a voucher.

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, burial expense, prescription medication co-pays, non-emergency medical transportation, and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance

Assists individuals who are homeless or disadvantaged with a variety of needs, including but not limited to rent, utilities, car repairs, and medical expenses.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Limited financial aid for emergency situations including utility deposits, rent, prescription medications, glasses, clothing, school supplies, holiday assistance, transportation, birth certificate retrieval, Iowa identification, books for GED testing, etc.

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School Supplies
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Deposit Assistance
Records/Licenses/Permits Fee Payment Assistance
Christmas Programs
Transportation Expense Assistance

Offers Housing services, including rent and utilities. Also offers a food pantry, gas vouchers for medical appointments only, and prescription assistance.

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Personal Financial Counseling
Medical Expense Assistance
Food Pantries
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP
Homeless Shelter
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Community Action Agencies
Mortgage Payment Assistance

Assist individuals in obtaining a one month supply of prescription medication up to $50.00. May receive help every 6 months from Siouxland Community Health Pharmacy.

A program that helps people get insurance or keep insurance they already have by paying for the premiums.

Connects youth and families with resources and support. Navigators have the ability to "fill gaps", either through helping agencies partner around a common goal, or through flexible funding for needs such as rent, utilities, transportation, and more.

Proactive Families Financial Services is designed to reduce unnecessary involvement of child welfare and juvenile justice while increasing the informal and community supports for youth and families. By utilizing Central Navigation, the goal is to coordinate existing resources and match participants with a resource to either solve an immediate need or develop a longer-term coaching relationship.

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Mental Health Expense Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Rental Deposit Assistance
Case/Care Management
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Grants/Loans
Medical Expense Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Work Clothing
Medication assistance program for indigent patients.

Provides assistance on a temporary basis for a limited time for basic needs that may include rent, lot rent, electric, water, medications, and funeral services. Ineligible if an eligible Veteran.

***County rent and utilities assistance is not distributed from the General Assistance office.

For Rent Assistance, applicants must call Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center or Eastside Ministerial Alliance for help as they do the intake for General Assistance.

For Utility Assistance, applicants must call Jesse Cosby Neighborhood Center, Eastside Ministerial Alliance, or Operation Threshold for help as they do the intake for General Assistance.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Prescription Medication Services
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
County Government Departments/Offices

Facilitate an income maintenance program administered and funded entirely by the county that provides financial assistance, such as for rent, utilities, food, or other essential needs, primarily for adults who have no minor children in the home and are ineligible for any of the federally-funded cash grant programs.

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Rent Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Prescription Medication Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Offers a Drug Donation Repository that accepts donated medicines that are unexpired, in tamper-evident packaging, non-controlled, and do not require refrigeration. With these donations, SafeNetRx is able to provide discounted medicines to those that are underinsured, uninsured, or below 200% of Federal Poverty Level through their Charitable Mail-Order Pharmacy in Iowa.

Offers rent and utility assistance, life sustaining medication assistance, and limited relocation assistance.

Applicants may obtain $500 per month for maximum of three months, or $1500 within a 24 month period.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Provides financial assistance in meeting emergency needs for rent, utilities, food, clothing, medical, prescription, fuel, car repair, appliances, minor furnace repair, etc.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Appliance Repair
Clothing Vouchers
Food Vouchers
Furnaces
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
General Appliance Provision
Transportation Expense Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance

Offers a discount card for prescriptions available through Coast2Coast Rx.

Provides services to individuals with mental health issues. Services include case management, counseling, prescription administration and representative payee services.

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Representative Payee Services
Psychiatric Case Management
General Counseling Services
Prescription Medication Services