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After school and summer programs for girls. Tutoring, health and sexuality, leadership and life planning, self-reliance, life skills, sports and adventure.

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Boys/Girls Clubs
Tutoring Services
Mentoring Programs
Personal Safety Education

-- Advocacy Program: Intensive one-on-one services that include mentoring, role modeling, and social skills building.

-- Norman Housing Services: This program provides services to DCFS clients who lack adequate housing.

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Mentoring Programs
Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Social Skills Training
Provides career-based mentoring for middle and high school students in Polk County.
Group career based. For specific schools- call to see if offered in your school.
Mentoring program for Ames High School female identifying students.

Offers to empower male youth to make positive life choices. Program provides participants with mentor/mentee matches, weekly group mentoring sessions, graduation ceremonies and special events. Locations vary within the Polk County area, including community and school-based sites.

Works to find creative ways to respond to complex issues affecting young men and women and assist them in overcoming obstacles hindering their educational experiences. The academy provides youth with individual, group, and family counseling to address issues at school and at home, teaches students how to develop self-respect, respect for others, and personal accountability.
Counseling services for individuals and families, including play therapy for children. Telehealth services to Norfolk office include medication management and therapy.

Family support services.

Drug and alcohol evaluations.

Drug and alcohol intensive outpatient programs for adults and adolescents.

Mentoring program.

Medication management.

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General Counseling Services
Psychiatric Medication Services
Mentoring Programs
Child Guidance
Comprehensive Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Mental Health Evaluation
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.

Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

Outdoor activities, including Carter Lake Summer Camp (Mon-Fri 8 am-4 pm).

Meals served. Limited bus service - call for details.

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Mentoring Programs
Tutoring Services
Team Sports/Leagues
Literacy Programs
Boys/Girls Clubs
Academic advising assists students in developing career goals and educational plans, including program and course selection and transfer planning. The Learning and Writing Center provides services to all students free of charge. Instructors offer individual or small group assistance to students for coursework while developing reading, writing, vocabulary, math, science, speech and study skills. Disability services provides access, accommodations and advocacy for students with disabilities; this includes accessible textbooks, additional time on exams, sign language interpreters and mobility assistance. Resources are also available for students to develop study and time management skills. Counseling services are offered to students to assist with academic or personal concerns. Counselors also assist students with referrals to community resources.

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Adult Mentoring Programs
Study Skills Assistance
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.
Provides one-on-one personal mentoring to those wanting help. Mentoring is provided by other members of the local community.
Mentoring program opportunities for children ages 6 years old to 13 years old. Mentors need to be at least 18 years old to volunteer.

Offers a National civil rights advocacy group with branches in Iowa and Nebraska.

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Mentoring Programs
Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Constitutional/Civil Rights Groups
Mentoring program opportunities for children ages 6 years old to 13 years old. Mentors need to be at least 18 years old to volunteer.
Character and leadership development. Programs include aquatics, arts, sports, fitness and recreation, health and life skills, educational and career development, job training, career preparation, tutoring services, and age appropriate community service.

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Literacy Programs
Tutoring Services
Boys/Girls Clubs
Team Sports/Leagues
Mentoring Programs

Intensive support to high-risk children in foster care to stabilize placements and prevent entry into higher levels of care. Services offered include:

-- Brief individual and family counseling.

-- Placement stabilization services.

-- Crisis intervention.

-- Community linkage.

-- Foster parent support.

-- School intervention and tutoring.

-- Court advocacy.

-- Mentoring services.

-- Enrichment activities.

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General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
General Counseling Services
Mentoring Programs
Mentoring program includes skills mastery, character building, and fun, plus individualized attention from trained adults who serve as role models.
Mentoring, tutoring and after school STEM program, community navigation for the metro area's refugee and immigrant youth.
Offers professionally supported, one-on-one relationships with adult mentors. Mentors and mentees are matched by similar interests. Monthly activities and community service projects are planned for mentoring pairs to participate in. Mentors spend an average of 1 hour per week for a minimum of one year with their mentee.
Mentoring program opportunities for children ages 6 years old to 13 years old. Mentors need to be at least 18 years old to volunteer.
Y-PALS Mentoring Program has adult mentors available to mentor children in the area.
The community based program matches an adult with a child and share fun activities they both enjoy. We ask Community Based matches to spend 4 hours a month together for at least 1 calendar year.
Public school system.

Early childhood program.

Teammates program (Tom Osborne Program) provides mentoring.

Newcomers program assists adjustment of non-English proficient students.

Special education.

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Mentoring Programs
School Districts
Special Education
Early Childhood Education