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Provides free and confidential services to pregnant women, their families, and individuals with young children. Services include pregnancy testing, pregnancy counseling, limited ultrasound, ongoing pregnancy support, referrals for community support services, support after an abortion, Earn While You Learn Program, fatherhood mentoring programs, and Mother's/Maternity Home. Additionally, the program offers resources and guidance to support individuals in achieving economic self-sufficiency, including vocational evaluation, training in marketable skills, and referrals for employment opportunities tailored to those facing emotional challenges, substance abuse issues, or disabilities.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Pregnancy Testing
Vocational Rehabilitation
Pregnancy Counseling
Childbirth Education
Mentoring Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Services are designed to prepare a person for paid or unpaid employment in skills which are not job task oriented. Services include attending to tasks, task completion, problem solving, and safety and mobility training, appropriate dress, meal options for the workplace, appropriate interactions, communication, socialization, and phone skills.

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Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation
CBE (COMMUNITY BASED EMPLOYMENT) provides assistance in finding and maintaining employment in contracted and non-contracted work environments to people with disabilities.

LIFE SKILLS (DAY HAB) a non-paid day program that provides support in developing or maintaining life skills and community integration.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Assessment
Supported Employment
Prevocational Training
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Career development, job development/planning, placement and on-going supports for persons with developmental or other disabilities.

Supported employment offers community-based work options for adults with developmental disabilities.

Job Club 8-week intensive job search program for individuals with disabilities. Participants focus on increasing employability skills, practicing interview skills, obtaining job leads, and helping one another.

Job Development assists adults with disabilities in determining the type of employment setting that best meets their needs, interests, and abilities. Staff assist with creating a resume and interviewing for jobs.

Job Coaching provides supplemental on the job training for adults with disabilities.

Continuing education classes are offered beyond high school in a variety of formats and settings and focus on independent living, money management, social, and employment-related skills.

Independent living services provide instruction for individuals who live in their own home (apartment or house) or in their family's home. Education, training and support is provided to maintain or increase independent living skills, such as money management, health and safety, interpersonal relations, community awareness, recreational skills, nutrition, hygiene and leisure.

The Art of Imagination classes offer artistic opportunities in traditional art forms such as painting, writing, drawing and photography and more alternative art forms such as papercraft, mail art, cartooning, post card and greeting card creation.

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran's aid. VA benefits and services include Disability benefits, education and training services, home loans, burial benefits, dependents' and survivors' benefits, life insurance, and healthcare assistance.

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Veteran Benefits Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Vocational Rehabilitation
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
County Government Departments/Offices
Supported employment provides vocational services which promote and support inclusion within the community. Encourages and assists people in obtaining jobs in the community or running their own small business. The focus is on assessing interest, job placement, and job coaching.

Job coaching provides training for clients to perform job tasks to the employer's specifications and to learn the interpersonal skills necessary to be accepted as workers at the job site.

Vocational centers provide training to teach people vocational skills and an opportunity to earn an income through completion of contract work.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment

Provides residential and vocational supports to people with intellectual disabilities or brain injuries. Affiliated corporation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and non-denominational in service.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Provides residential and vocational support services to persons with mental and physical disabilities. Includes HCBS waiver programs, supported community living, transportation, job coaching and placement, CDAC, medication management, independent living skills, and payee services for clients.

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Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supported Employment
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Centers for Independent Living
Representative Payee Services
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Benefits Planning and Work Incentives Counseling assists Social Security disability beneficiaries ages 14 to full retirement age in understanding how federal disability cash (SSDI/SSI), healthcare (Medicare/Medicaid) and other public benefits are impacted by income from work, providing the assurances needed to make informed decisions about working while disabled. This service also helps individuals identify and strategically use state/federal work incentives that best align with their work goals. Employment Services are provided under the Ticket to Work Program.

Provides vocational training, developmental training, and day programs focusing on daily living skills and economic self-sufficiency for individuals with intellectual disabilities.

Independent living and employment skills to the developmentally disabled.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Offers individuals with a serious mental illness the opportunity to work in a supportive and therapeutic environment. Clients will be given an opportunity to learn vocational skills, earn money, improve self-esteem, learn to work with others in a cooperative effort, and improve chances for future competitive employment. Individuals learn office skills, light industrial skills such as assembling, packaging, and housekeeping.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Offers to improves the quality of life of individuals by providing training, education and employment programs.

SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT assists those who have barriers to employment in obtaining and maintaining employment in the community.

DAY SERVICES is for adults with a diagnosed disability to work on their independent living skills in a stimulating and community integrated environment. Participants have opportunities to plan activities, volunteer, learn to self-advocate and have fun with a group of their peers.

**PAID SKILLS TRAINING listed separately.

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Vocational Education
Supported Employment
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Prevocational Training
Vocational Assessment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Occupation Specific Job Training
Industrial location that houses several businesses including the assembly division which ranges from scanning documents for data storage to collating, sorting and packaging and in the manufacturing division pallets and shipping crates are built.

Employment program for people who experience a disability. Assists people with disabilities prepare for, find, and keep a job. Program is voluntary and the services provided will be specific to an individual's needs.

Helps businesses recruit, train, and retain employees with disabilities.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Assistive Technology Equipment
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Prevocational Training
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Assessment

Vocational training and job placement for developmentally disabled.

Community living training.

In-home support.

Shelter workshops and integrated work environments.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Job Search/Placement
Supported Employment
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs

Vocational, residential, and day services support and training to persons with developmental disabilities and/or related conditions.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Job Search/Placement
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs