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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.

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

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.

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.
Family Self Sufficiency Program assists families to improve their quality of life and gain economic independence. CIRHA's FSS Coordinators will work with the families and local agencies to provide any supportive services that may assist the family in achieving their goals for self sufficiency.

This program does not include Knoxville and Pella. They have their own program.
Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.
Case management approach that empowers families to achieve change by recognizing their inherent strengths and skills. Helps develop an action plan that includes personal aspirations and practical actions, all while providing relevant agency services and referrals to appropriate community resources.
The Family Development and Self-Sufficiency (FaDSS) program at Northeast Iowa Community Action has a capacity of 77 families and is a support service to assist Family Investment Program (FIP) families and families with low incomes address significant or multiple barriers reach self-sufficiency. Services available may include: Monthly home visits, Assessments tools to help families identify their strengths, Goal setting, Ongoing, strength-based, and solution-focused support, Referrals to needed community resources, and Advocacy and self-advocacy support.
Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.
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.
FADSS Family Development and Self-Sufficiency program provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan).
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
FADSS Family Development and Self-Sufficiency program provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan).

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.

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TANF
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
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. Together, specialists and families address the barriers affecting success by completing assessment tools and developing goals around areas critical to the family's overall well-being.
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.
Client centered intensive case management program to assist families in transitioning to stability.

Offers case management to provide targeted services to families wanting to break the generational cycle of poverty and enable a path out of constant crisis. Services include, moving families from crises and vulnerability to stability and eventually self-sufficiency, meeting with a caseworker to develop your personalized action plan, tracking progress, reaching milestones, prepare for the future, service connections to: job training, health services, childcare and education, housing options, legal services, and more.

Hotel Vouchers (through Stepping Stones program) are currently for one-night stays only, and are limited to Mason County. Contact for more information.

Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.

Provides assistance with a variety of needs, including translation, interpretation of documents, benefit applications such as SNAP, Medicaid, ADC and SSI.

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Immigrant Benefits Assistance
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
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.
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.