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Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

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Tutoring Services
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Citizenship Education
Life Skills Education
Community Colleges
English as a Second Language

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

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Tutoring Services
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Citizenship Education
Life Skills Education
Community Colleges
English as a Second Language
Services helping older, unconnected youth age 14-25 voluntarily transition successfully into adulthood. Examples of eligible youth would be those currently or formerly in foster care, homeless or near homeless without family support, past involvement with the juvenile justice system, or those on probation that meet specific qualifying circumstances.

Offers leadership opportunities, financial literacy and asset-building through Opportunity Passport, central navigation to connect to services, coaching toward goals, and gap funding for essential services or resources.

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Case/Care Management
Life Skills Education
Temporary Financial Assistance
Helps individuals learn skills and utilize tools to create and maintain wellness and to make choices that lead to healthier outcomes. Part of the process includes creating a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) - which helps individuals discover simple, safe, and effective tools to create and maintain wellness, develop a daily plan to stay on track with life and wellness goals, and identify what throws goals off track and develop a plan to keep moving forward. This is led by trained facilitators who will also do follow-up to see if the plan needs updated at least twice a year.

Also offers the writing SMART Goals class. Here the person learns to write goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and time-bound. This is done by breaking down objectives into smaller, more manageable components that are easy to track and achieve. The goals can be about anything in the person's life.
Assistance for youth, 18 - 21 years of age, who have 'aged out' of foster care, meet the challenges of living independently, and achieve self efficiency.

Case management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Life Skills Education
Helps individuals who have been in foster care move towards stability and self-sufficiency in six areas: education, employment, housing, health, life skills and relationships.

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Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups
Life Skills Education

Provides assistance for youth, ages 17 up to age 23, who are preparing to exit or have 'aged out' of foster care or other court ordered placement, meet the challenges of living independently and transition successfully to adulthood.Case Management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Occupation Specific Job Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Developed to meet individual unique training needs and to enhance independence in the home and community. All services address individual needs and desires for care, for informed choices and the individual's vision for the future. OWL is an approved provider for the Brain Injury Waiver Program, which was created by Iowa State Legislature in 1996. Services provided through the program include: Supported Community Living-designed to assist the consumer with daily living needs, which includes, but are not limited to, community skills, personal needs, budgeting, social skills, home management and individual advocacy.

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Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Life Skills Education
Provides an educational program for children and youth ages 12-21 with intellectual disabilities. The program stresses self-help skills, communication skills, socialization skills, functional academics, and vocational skills. Referrals for school enrollment come from the student's special education program. Ruby Van Meter also has a Related Arts program that provides education in the areas of Physical Education, Music, Work Experience, Home Living Skills and Swimming.
Offers a comprehensive mental health center that provides outpatient individual, family, and group psychotherapy. Integrated Health and Community Outreach Programs offered through this location. Outreach programs include Jail Diversion programs, Integrated Health programs and Support Community Living programs.

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General Counseling Services
Diversion Programs
Psychiatric Case Management
Integrated Physical/Mental Health Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation

Using an evidence-based poverty alleviation curriculum, individuals attend an 8-10 week long Getting Ahead class in a cohort of 12-14 people meeting once or twice per week, followed by Life Skill Coaching with certified coaches for as long as needed.


Individuals identify resources, tools, and skills needed to remove barriers to success in their lives. Participants, aka "Investigators", investigate the root causes of poverty and how to make changes needed in their lives toward stability and self-sufficiency, through learning soft skills, SMART goal setting, building assets, decreasing debts, increasing salary and wages, learning and discussing hidden rules of economic classes, learning emotional regulation, and much more.

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Life Skills Education
Financial Literacy Training
Foster care program for teens.

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Supervised Living for Older Youth
Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Case/Care Management
Life Skills Education
Offers a comprehensive mental health center that provides outpatient individual, family, and group psychotherapy. Integrated Health and Community Outreach Programs offered through this location. Outreach programs include Jail Diversion programs, Integrated Health programs and Support Community Living programs.

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General Counseling Services
Diversion Programs
Psychiatric Case Management
Integrated Physical/Mental Health Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
Provides support to young adults to develop the skills and confidence needed to live self-sufficient, productive lives. Young people in the program work with their Independent Living Specialist to set goals in three focus areas: education, employment and independent living. With the guidance of their Specialist, young adults learn and practice skills to help them achieve their goals and thrive as independent adults.
Provides life skills classes on a variety of different topics and issues. Contact the Friendship Baptist Center for more information on what classes will be offered during the upcoming year.
Assists with life skills, such as self-care, cooking and money management. Also assists people with navigating their housing needs, benefit coordination, community resources, medications, therapy appointments and doctor appointments as well as supported employment.

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Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
Life Skills Education
Supported Employment

Community college.

GED preparation and testing.

ESL - English as a Second language classes.

Adult basic education, including literacy, job seeking, and life skills education.

Citizenship preparation.

Tutors available in various locations in the Panhandle.

Single parent / displaced homemaker program provides career counseling, dependent care, non-traditional training, skills training, technology training, books and tuition, personal counseling, support groups, and transportation. Contact a student services advisor for information.

Veterans Upward Bound programs offer intensive basic skills development and short-term remedial courses for military veterans to help them successfully transition to post-secondary education.

Categories

Tutoring Services
Career Counseling
Adult Basic Education
High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
High School Equivalency/GED Test Sites
Literacy Programs
Citizenship Education
Life Skills Education
Community Colleges
English as a Second Language
Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Music Therapy, Speech Therapy, Exercise and Sports Development Program, Counseling and Psychological Services, Nursing Services, Life Skills, Dietary services, Recreational Services.

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Nutrition Education
General Counseling Services
Occupational Therapy
Speech Therapy
Physical Therapy
Life Skills Education
Supports people with disabilities in learning new skills in the following areas: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication, cognitive functioning, social and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living activities, self advocacy and mobility.
Offers a comprehensive mental health center that provides outpatient individual, family, and group psychotherapy. Integrated Health and Community Outreach Programs offered through this location. Outreach programs include Jail Diversion programs, Integrated Health programs and Support Community Living programs.

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General Counseling Services
Diversion Programs
Psychiatric Case Management
Integrated Physical/Mental Health Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation
The Training Advancement Skills in the Community (TASC) Day Habilitation program is an organized program of activities designed to foster the acquisition of skills, build positive social behavior and interpersonal competence, greater independence and personal choice. Day Habilitation services are designed and developed in a manner that is individualized and focused on enabling the member to attain or maintain their maximum potential. TASC defines the scope of these services and supports based on the identified needs and desires of the person served. Services offered enable and enhance the member's: intellectual functioning, physical and emotional health and development, language and communication development, cognitive functioning, socialization and community integration, functional skill development, behavior management, responsibility and self direction, daily living skills, self-advocacy skills or mobility.

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Life Skills Education
Behavior Modification
Social Skills Training
Independent Living Skills Instruction

Offers work training to young men and women 18-25. Program offers opportunities in job training, goal setting, life skill classes, and discipleship.

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Life Skills Education
Occupation Specific Job Training

Offers a state-widetransitional and independent living coaching program, that includes educationaland financial literacy programming, designed to provide support and guidance toyouth and young adults ages 14-26 who have foster care or experience, arepregnant/parenting, homeless/near homeless, or are a victim of humantrafficking.

Coaching assists these youth and young adults with the challenges of becomingindependent. A Coach will work one-on-one with each of these youth to accesstheir strengths and abilities, as well as assist the youth in identifying theirpersonal vision for becoming a successful independent adult. A Coach willassist them in their time of transition and provide ongoing support.

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

Rent Wise is a tenant education program that helps people learn how to find and keep decent rental housing, and how to become successful renters. Renters who complete this program of six modules earn a certificate of completion to show potential landlords and property managers that they want to be good tenants.

Matt Talbot will offers this program quarterly.

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Life Skills Education
Parenting Skills Classes
Financial Literacy Training
Self Esteem Workshops