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Offers to help 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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Life Skills Education
Adoption and Foster/Kinship Care Support Groups

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
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.

Offers educational courses which are free to the public. Each month a different topic is explored. Vouchers to ATLAS's Christmas Store or School Supply drives may be earned by attendees for active participation.

Courses offered may vary and may cover topics such as:

- Public Speaking

- Setting Boundaries

- Learning to Budget

- Grief Recovery

- Life Skills for Teens

- Parenting

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Life Skills Education
Bereavement and Grief Counseling
Financial Literacy Training
Parenting Skills Classes
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 life skills training workshops for building capacity for independence.

Offers those in need the opportunity to practice learned skills within the community. The program offers opportunities for clients to enhance their life skills, deal with day-to-day symptoms and life issues, manage their medication, leisure activities, social skills, health issues, and strategies to prevent isolation.

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

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General Psychiatry
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
In Person Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Medication Services
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
General Counseling Services

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

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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Financial Literacy Training
Life Skills Education

Offers to create educational opportunities in which children, youth and families are productive, caring, informed, healthy, lifelong learners helping to sustain economic security through education.

Provides a Family literacy program, and GED/HSED to residents in Decatur County, Iowa.

Offers parent education home visiting services to expectant teens and teen parents. Creating the support which children and youth will learn, grow and develop by providing parent child instruction and parenting skills classes, nutrition education and life skills education.

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High School Equivalency/GED Test Instruction
Parenting Skills Classes
Literacy Programs
Parent/Child Instruction
Nutrition Education
Life Skills Education

Program provides monthly subsidies to clients for rent, food, and utilities while the youth either works full time or attends school. While in the program, youths receive up to 7 hours per week of case management services, which focus heavily on teaching youths to shop, budget, and prioritize among other independent living skills.

A 12-week education course for individuals who are unemployed, underemployed, or hard-to-employ designed to promote personal growth and professional success. Program participants receive mentors, weekly job leads and referrals, transportation, food, housing, and more. A job fair is held at the end of each course.

Provides emergency housing and supportive services to homeless individuals and families. Services include case management, information and referral to community resources, education assistance, workshops, and access to food pantry.


Cold Shelter available on nights when it is 20F or below.

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Life Skills Education
Case/Care Management
Food Pantries
Specialized Information and Referral
Homeless Shelter

Provides agricultural and life skills services to individuals with developmental disabilities. Also provides a food pantry and mobile meal program. Works with Dekalb School District 428 on food education for students.

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Mobile Food Pantry Programs
Food Pantries
Life Skills Education
Nutrition Education

Provides a holistic approach to changing unhealthy lifestyles, addressing issues that have caused chronic homelessness and preventing relapse to offend. Program uses group, one-on-one, referral, and follow-up contact to address all barriers to healthy, independent living.

These barriers may include, domestic violence, mental health, physical health, substance abuse, parenting, sexual health, employment issues, literacy and educational advancement, and budgeting and maintaining a household.

Provides programs and training for adults, including:

- Life skills training

- Counseling

- Life and health coaching

- Health and wellness training

- Career coaching and job application/resume training

- Financial literacy

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Financial Literacy Training
Career Counseling
General Counseling Services
Life Skills Education
General Health Education Programs

Program for learning essential skills to navigate everyday challenges and responsibilities successfully. Helps to identify barriers and commit to financial and personal goals, creating a path toward stability.

Provides special education services to students, ages 5 to 21, diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Classroom placements are determined by grade, ability levels and communication needs. The program utilizes Structured Teacch and Applied Behavior Analysis.

Bridge to Independence Program serves students aged 18-21, offering personalized chances to earn graduation credits. Emphasizing practical life and social skills, students are expected to secure and keep employment. Vocational training is mandatory, and "Bridge Entrepreneurial Projects" offer extra opportunities.

K -12 students, classrooms have a clear structure, using varied teaching methods and ongoing assessments. Students face stimulating materials and are motivated to showcase their knowledge and skills creatively and traditionally.

Vocational Services around 50-60% of students receive vocational services, covering career exploration, resume development, skills training, and hands-on work experiences.

Support and mentorship for high school girls ages 15-18. Offers weekly sessions in the evening related to careers, college, financial literacy, and identity development/diversity.
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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Life Skills Education
Supported Employment
Mental Health Related Community Support Services (CSS)
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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Diversion Programs
Psychiatric Case Management
General Counseling Services
Integrated Physical/Mental Health Services
Life Skills Education
Mental Health Evaluation

Offers a wide range of behavioral healthcare and integrated care services, including:

Individualized Treatment Services includes, comprehensive mental health and substance use assessment, counseling services, crisis stabilization, life skills development, and dual diagnosis services.

Substance use treatment services includes, outpatient treatment services, DUI evaluations and risk education, substance abuse education, substance use counseling, and Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT).

Psychiatric services include, medication assessment, medication monitoring, psychiatric services available in all Sinnissippi Centers' main office locations.

Categories

General Psychiatry
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Life Skills Education
Integrated Co-Occurring Disorders Treatment
Mental Health Evaluation
Drug Use Disorder Education/Prevention
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Alcohol Use Disorder Education/Prevention
In Person Crisis Intervention
Psychiatric Medication Services
Medication Based Treatment for Substance Use Disorders
General Counseling Services

Provides in-house and community based opportunities for those struggling with a disability, empowering them to work on their life goals and become more active in their community.

Offers assistance with money skills training, using public transportation in the community, learning community safety skills, choosing appropriate clothing, filling out job applications, and practicing interviewing skills.

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Prejob Guidance
Prevocational Training
Life Skills Education

Helps youth achieve positive growth and development, improve expectations and capabilities for future success, and avoid and/or reduce risk-taking behavior.

Offers academic enrichment, life skills education, parental involvement, recreational/cultural opportunities, positive adult mentors, and community service.

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Youth Enrichment Programs
Life Skills Education
Youth Violence Prevention