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Provides guidance and assistance for students who are suspended, expulsion eligible or expelled from the general education setting. Programs including the attendance improvement matters, provides direct services to students that will assist them in overcoming economic barriers that interfere with school attendance. Also offers a bridges program, that includes a full-time educational option for students who wish to catch up to a grade level or retrieve missed credits due to poor school attendance.

Provides equitable access and opportunities for economic success for underserved clients. Programs include job readiness, assisting with job placement and developing skills to aid in job retention, ELL, citizenship, computer skills, resume writing, networking, cultural transition support groups and peer discussions, effective parenting, education and coaching to enhance and promote financial literacy and long-term self-sufficiency, and other skills necessary to compete in the modern workplace. The programs address the barriers impacting low income and refugee families and their ability to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Barriers from employment discrimination, language barriers, poverty, family conflict, transportation, financial illiteracy, and much more. Programs and class offerings are designed to be flexible to fit individual needs, and include a “high touch” service model which is both culturally competent and language specific.

Offers consultation service that provides information to the general public to determine whether an attorney is needed for their particular problem. Attorneys meet with individuals free of charge and provide referrals to legal services, a private attorney, or law enforcement. Attorneys offer advice on family law (i.e. divorce), landlord-tenant issues, lawsuits and small claims, financial problems, consumer law, traffic and criminal violations, employment, public benefits, guardianships of children, restraining orders between adults and adults and children and other areas.

NOTE: Senior Citizen Legal Services is provided through Northland Area Agency on Aging.

Subsidized apartments for those 62 or older.

Offers free volunteer placement in Allamakee, Clayton, northern Fayette, Howard, and Winneshiek Counties for seniors over the age of 55. Volunteers may choose where they would like to volunteer and how much time they want to devote to volunteering. Possible volunteer opportunities include tutoring youth, leading activities, assisting with the food pantry, visiting nursing home residents, and performing office duties. Accommodations are made for seasonal volunteering.

Emergency management for Montgomery County in cases of disaster, weather, terrorism, or civil unrest.

Provides community resource flyers and information offering referrals to programming. 

Provides grant funding to approved non-for-profit partner agencies that provide programs that serve individuals in need throughout greater Story County.

Helps provide a continuum of care for persons living with HIV/AIDS. Clients in the program will be assigned a medical case manager. Case managers can assist clients by linking them with a network of health care and support services. Services may include:

• Health care services assistance
• Housing assistance
• Rental/mortgage assistance
• Utility assistance
• Permanent supportive housing
• Medication programs
• Medical benefits assistance
• Vision services assistance
• Dental services assistance
• Legal services assistance
• Transportation assistance
• Medical appointment transportation
• Emergency food and nutrition assistance
• Mental health services assistance
• Substance mis-use services

Holiday baskets are offered seasonally, provided through local community support. Programs vary by location; call for information.

Head Start and Early Head Start are comprehensive child development programs that serve children from birth to age five, pregnant women and their families. The programs are child-focused and have the overall goal of increasing the school readiness of young children in low-income families.

Both programs provide a range of individualized services in the areas of education, medical, dental and mental health, nutrition and social service to children and their families. Parent involvement is encouraged and support is offered for children with disabilities.

Local school contacts in Audubon, Calhoun, Carroll, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie and Sac Counties are listed below:

-- Audubon, Carroll, Coon Rapids: (712) 830-9442

-- Adel, Waukee: (515) 987-7428 or (712) 830-1327

-- Guthrie Center, Jefferson, Panora: (712) 830-6990

-- Rockwell City, Lytton, Sac City, Schaller, Crestland, Southern Cal: (712) 830-1326

-- Perry: (515) 238-2194

Collects property taxes, conducts annual tax sale for delinquent taxes, processes vehicle transactions, issues driver's licenses, and issues motor vehicle titles and registrations.

Career resources, job search and placement, academic improvement services, financial assistance for supportive services.