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Provides a range of therapy and counseling services to children, teens, adults, and parents. Intensive services are available for children and teens at risk of entering the child welfare or juvenile justice system, including therapy, skill development, supervision, and referrals to community resources.

Parent counseling services are offered to address emotional difficulties or conflicts related to parenting roles, with options for individual, group, or conjoint counseling to explore and resolve mental, emotional, or social challenges impacting parenting.

Provides a maternity home (NOT A SHELTER) dedicated to the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, helping through postpartum care of single pregnant mothers, girls that are not pregnant but have an infant, or girls who are pregnant with another young child (infant) with them. It is a safe haven where they can stay while learning the skills, get basic needs and counseling they need to make a better life for themselves and their babies.

Community Block Build - House-by-house approach to improving focused areas of high need. Includes:

- Handicap accessibility modifications.

- Plumbing/electrical work.

- Energy efficiency upgrades.

- Landscaping.

- Painting.

Safe at Home - Improves access and reduces risk for seniors and people with disabilities. Some repairs include:

- Hand railings/grab bars.

- Ramps.

- Broken/weak steps.

- Walk-in shower.

- ADA-accessible doorways.

- Lever door knobs.

- Additional lighting.

- Deadbolts and locks.

Offers individual counseling and tele-health counseling settings. Services cover a variety of mental health issues and topics. Therapy and supportive services include art therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, eye movement desensitization/reprocessing (EMDR), peer counseling, play therapy, and trauma focused cognitive behavioral therapy.

Provides police and dispatch services responsible for emergency assessment and response, including coordination with correctional facilities for the detention, confinement, and management of individuals involved in criminal offenses.

Offers 3 licensed Residential Care Facilities for the Intellectually Disabled. 

Delivers a Thanksgiving meal to older adults ages 60 and older.

Individuals must order meals by November 19, 2024.

Offers services for homeless youth and their families. Helps students enroll or stay in school. Connects families to community resources for health, transportation, food, and more.

Sanitation provides trash recyclables and yard debris collection; residential trash and yard debris is collected weekly, recyclables are picked-up bi-weekly.

Scrub Days 2024 for all neighborhoods in Des Moines: 3/18, 4/15, 5/20, 6/17, 7/15, 8/19, 9/16, and 10/21 at drop off points listed below.

MWA Transfer Station, 4198 Delaware Avenue - 7 am-2 pm
MWA Compost Center, 1601 Harriett Street - 7 am-2 pm

MEGA Scrub
4/15 - Merle Hay Mall, 3800 Merle Hay Rd, 7 am-1 pm
5/20 - Polk County River Place, 2309 Euclid Avenue - 7 am-1 pm
7/15 - Capitol Complex Lot#3 West of East 14th South of Court Avenue - 7 am-1 pm
9/16 - Bell Avenue Business Park, 1901 Bell Avenue - 7 am-1 pm