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Mentoring program opportunities for children ages 6 years old to 13 years old. Mentors need to be at least 18 years old to volunteer.

Offers support to women dealing with life-dominating challenges. Assistance also extends to women in prisons, substance abuse recovery centers, and homeless shelters, with the goal of helping them to prepare for successful societal reentry.

Program provides workshops by women who have overcome challenges and are graduates of the program, group and one-on-one mentoring, and an annual retreat.

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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Vocational Rehabilitation
Pregnancy Counseling
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Mentoring Programs
Specialized Information and Referral
Pregnancy Testing
Childbirth Education

Works to match an adult with a child to share fun activities they both enjoy. Community Based matches are asked to spend 4 hours a month together for at least 1 calendar year.

Provides the opportunity for the mentor (Big) to visit their Little in the child's school, after school program, or at another youth-serving agency. This allows for the mentor to meet in a more structured environment than out in the community, usually for about an hour per week.

Offers educational, social, cultural, and recreational opportunities for families including mentoring, community meal, and summer food program.

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Mentoring Programs
Summer Food Service Programs
Community Meals
Youth Enrichment Programs
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.
Peer to Peer Mentoring program matches people with disabilities together to share experiences and develop a friendship while navigating through challenges one might face.

Offers a before and after school program. Services provide children individual and group tutoring, as well as mentoring services to decrease school suspensions and to address the mental health and academic needs. Children are given a snack and provided with homework assistance, life skills, and recreational activities.

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Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs
Extended Child Care

Offers a program designed to empower young entrepreneurs to develop entrepreneurial skills to launch their own businesses. Students receive mentorship from business professionals from the Des Moines Metro area where they obtain hands-on skills and connections to confidently pitch their business ideas at the conclusion of the program.

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Mentoring Programs
Youth Enrichment Programs

Provides the opportunity for the mentor (Big) to visit their Little in the child's school, after school program, or at another youth-serving agency. This allows for the mentor to meet in a more structured environment than out in the community, usually for about an hour per week.

Provides a program designed for senior volunteers (55+) to help children and special needs children with pre-reading and reading skills, homework, play games or share stories.

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Mentoring Programs
Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Teen Moms program provides mentoring and other services to help teen mothers reach self-sufficiency.

Young Dads program.

Youth guidance programs.

Anger management.

GAPS (Group for Adolescents Providing Support).

Alternate School available.

Mentoring groups for youth ages 10-19, small and large groups available.

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Mentoring Programs
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Faith Based Youth Programs
Academic advising assists students in developing career goals and educational plans, including program and course selection and transfer planning. The Learning and Writing Center provides services to all students free of charge. Instructors offer individual or small group assistance to students for coursework while developing reading, writing, vocabulary, math, science, speech and study skills. Disability services provides access, accommodations and advocacy for students with disabilities; this includes accessible textbooks, additional time on exams, sign language interpreters and mobility assistance. Resources are also available for students to develop study and time management skills. Counseling services are offered to students to assist with academic or personal concerns. Counselors also assist students with referrals to community resources.

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Study Skills Assistance
Adult Mentoring Programs

The School Based program matches sophomores, juniors, and seniors with elementary school students. These matches meet together at elementary schools for 45-60 minutes per week on-on-one. Matches do activities together, play games, work on homework, complete crafts, play outside and more. Mentors must have their own transportation and meet the mentee at the same time on the same day each week.

Operates out of the following schools

:Grand Island Public Schools

Grand Island Central Catholic

Wood River Rural Schools

Central City Public School

Grand Island Senior High

Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.
Mentoring, tutoring and after school STEM program, community navigation for the metro area's refugee and immigrant youth.

Provides volunteers to help children in school with learning skills such as reading, spelling, mathematics, writing, and social skills.

Connects individuals who are experiencing life hardships to others who provide friendship and mentoring. Mentoring covers topics such as coping with grief, budgeting, or other life hardships.

Mentoring program opportunities include community based (traditional), individual and couples match to a child, and school-based.

Matches youth ages 5-12 with caring, positive, committed, adult role models. The youth (Little) and mentor (Big) meet in the community 2-4 times per month for a minimum of 4 hours and spend time exploring activities they already enjoy and trying some new ones.

A school based mentoring program for elementary age students. Volunteers meet with a child over their lunch hour at least twice a month for one year. During the visit, matches have time to eat and talk, work on homework or play games together.

Provides programs and training for youth, including:

- Life skills training

- Peer mentorship

- Career readiness

- Tutoring and after school programs

- Dance and step programs

- Sports camp

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Mentoring Programs
Student Career Counseling
Tutoring Services
Youth Enrichment Programs
Life Skills Education

Provides a re-entry program that assists individuals returning to the community from the correctional system. Assists individuals with the following:
- Learning basic skills.
- Leadership development.
- Interview preparation and job readiness.
- Group mentoring and peer-to-peer sessions.

Offers the following services:
- Case management.
- Job placement.
- Educational assessments.
- Advocacy.
- Counseling.
- Recreational activities.

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Ex-Offender Reentry Programs
Leadership Development
Mentoring Programs

Offers adult to child one to one mentoring. School based mentoring is offered in the Marshalltown, West Marshall and BCLUW school districts. Mentors must be at ages 16 and older. Community based mentoring is offered for youth who live in Marshall County. Mentors must be ages 18 and older.