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Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Provides in-home support to families receiving FIP (welfare) assistance, helping the family to increase stability and become economically self-sufficient. Family development specialists meet one-on-one with families in regular home visits. Together, specialists and families address the barriers affecting success by completing assessment tools and developing goals around areas critical to the family's overall well-being.

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.
Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.
Case management approach that empowers families to achieve change by recognizing their inherent strengths and skills. Helps develop an action plan that includes personal aspirations and practical actions, all while providing relevant agency services and referrals to appropriate community resources.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Offers a partnership with families who receive FIP to provide them with the support they need to gain independence from public assistance. The program is voluntary and does not affect FIP benefits. It is focused on families success and growth. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
TANF
Case management approach that empowers families to achieve change by recognizing their inherent strengths and skills. Helps develop an action plan that includes personal aspirations and practical actions, all while providing relevant agency services and referrals to appropriate community resources.
Program supports families and individuals who want to further their self-sufficiency. Guides and motivates individuals to achieve workplace stability. Coordinators will provide support, opportunity and resources to identify and meet goals.
Iowa Workforce Development’s Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker (MSFW) outreach program is focused on educating and assisting farm workers and agricultural employers. Farm workers receive training and employment services through IowaWORKS Centers to assist with attaining greater economic stability. The State Monitor Advocate helps ensure farm workers are served equitably through workforce programs.
Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.

Provides help to individuals with develop and to achieve life goals. Offers participants social-emotional support and acts as a bridge in making connections to immediate needs, as well as developing life-changing skills. The program has 3 phases, each phase lasting 60 days. The participant will meet one on one with a Fountain of Youth professional each week to see how they are progressing with their goals and what can be done to help. This program consists of each participant making an individual success plan that pertains to one of the following areas: knowledge of self and others, citizenship, basic life skills, education, health and wellbeing, financial literacy and workplace success. The program is a minimum of 60 days commitment and a maximum of 6 months.


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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Personal Financial Counseling
Life Skills Education

Offers comprehensive case management system that helps families identify barriers to self-sufficiency and connects them with community support organizations. Barriers could include unemployment, insecure housing, lack of job skills, lack of child care.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Case/Care Management

Provides equitable access and opportunities for economic success for underserved clients. Programs include job readiness, assisting with job placement and developing skills to aid in job retention, ELL, citizenship, computer skills, resume writing, networking, cultural transition support groups and peer discussions, effective parenting, education and coaching to enhance and promote financial literacy and long-term self-sufficiency, and other skills necessary to compete in the modern workplace.

The programs address the barriers impacting low income and refugee families and their ability to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Barriers from employment discrimination, language barriers, poverty, family conflict, transportation, financial illiteracy, and much more. Programs and class offerings are designed to be flexible to fit individual needs, and include a "high touch" service model which is both culturally competent and language specific.

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Parenting Skills Classes
Cultural Transition Counseling
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Eye Examinations
Job Search/Placement
Financial Literacy Training
Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.

Offers community classes covering a variety of topics including Life Skills Training - Family Life Series, Stepping Up, personal development, anger management, and Positive Parenting.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Life Skills Education
Anger Management
Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.