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Offers case management services to families with at least one child under the age of 18. Case management works to help families reach stability. Goals created are client-oriented, and case managers connect clients to job training, health services, housing options, legal help, education, and more.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
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. 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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Work Clothing
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management

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

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. Families might pursue resources needed for stability, like emergency food, energy assistance, and stable housing.

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.
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.

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.
The mission is to improve the lives of families at risk of long-term welfare dependency or instability by creating opportunities for self-sufficiency.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Family Resource Centers/Outreach

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, 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. 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.

Categories

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

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.

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. 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.

Categories

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

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.

Categories

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

Case management resources to end the cycle of poverty and establish financial stability.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

Program of Illinois Department of Human Services that assists individuals and families in crisis by providing direct assistance when able and by helping clients navigate local social services.

Offers a food pantry and clothing pantry.

Provides referrals to appropriate services when needing emergency housing, transportation, help with medical bills, and job searching.

Provides management of the Opportunities Quad Cities initiative, a collaboration of volunteers who have experienced success in their lives ("Navigators") who work with individuals and families struggling with poverty ("Neighbors"). Navigators support Neighbors one-on-one to connect them to specific community resources that can alleviate a barrier to success and help them move forward permanently out of poverty. Navigators have worked with Neighbors to resolve legal issues, parenting struggles, continuing education, and many other situations that keep people in poverty. Services are offered at two separate locations in Davenport and Rock Island. The Davenport location focuses on helping individuals and families who have been victims or witnesses of crime (reported or unreported).

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Food Pantries
General Clothing Provision
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Program 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.

Works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

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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Job Search/Placement
Parenting Skills Classes
Cultural Transition Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Eye Examinations
Computer Literacy Training Programs

Engages families in dynamic partnerships to address their basic needs, improve child well-being, and develop career opportunities that, in turn, improves lives, families, and communities.

An in-home family development program that focuses to support families in moving toward self-sufficiency, meet their goals, attaining skills and employment.

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.