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Offers voluntary programs to eligible landowners and agricultural producers to provide financial and technical assistance to help manage natural resources in a sustainable manner. Through these programs the agency approves contracts to provide financial assistance to help plan and implement conservation practices that address natural resource concerns or opportunities to help save energy, improve soil, water, plant, air, animal and related resources on agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest land, with emphasis on market stability and commodity pricing.

Offers both short and long-term experiences for youth. Short-term experiences include afterschool programs, camps, school-sponsored activities, conferences, and other events. Long-term experiences include learning communities in agriculture such as county clubs.

Offers MEDICAID (Medical Assistance) to people who are low income and aged (65 and older), disabled (including blindness), women needing treatment for cancer or pre-cancerous conditions of breast or cervix (who have been screened and diagnosed through the Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection program and who do not have credible health insurance coverage), children under 21 years of age, pregnant women, parents or other caretaker relatives of children under age 18 (or under age 19 if they are attending secondary school and are expected to graduate before age 19). Medicaid will pay the costs of Health care, Dental care, In-home health care, Nursing facility care or Residential facility care.

Offers SERVSAFE® classes for food service professionals, providing comprehensive training on food hazards, proper food handling practices, and regulatory requirements to ensure food safety and prevent foodborne-illness outbreaks. 

Provides a weekday noon meal to local seniors and Meals on Wheels for homebound seniors. A range of 60-90 meals are served each day.

Offers seniors a variety of activities to promote active living, including:

- Field trips.

- Pool tournaments.

- Bingo.

- Home health aides.

- Social activities.

- Transportation.

- Legal assistance.

- Exercise classes.

Offers a full range of general counseling and psychotherapy services including individual (adult, child and adolescent), group, marital, and family counseling for individuals with emotional, relationship, and life adjustment issues. Counseling is holistic in approach, integrating mind-body-spirit for healing.  Include intensive psychotherapy (depression, stress, self-esteem, marriage, divorce, family, and grief counseling); psychological testing and evaluation; consultation to businesses, educational and religious institutions and counseling for pre-school through high school age youth and their families. The Center staff is interdisciplinary and includes pastoral counselors, psychologists, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, clinical social workers, a healing touch practitioner and spiritual director, career counselor, a psychiatrist and psychiatric P.A. 

Provides assessments and treatment services for adolescents and adults suffering from alcohol and drug use. Services include group therapy, intensive outpatient treatment, DUI evaluation, and educational services. Various outpatient interventions are offered and delivered to residents and their families.

Bridgeway’s Prevention Program provides alcohol and drug prevention education for youth, through an evidence-based curriculum, throughout local school districts in Illinois.

Gang specialist offers one and one and group gang and violence prevention and intervention, employment assistance, and mentoring.

Gang Unit members are located in precincts throughout the city. Call for information.

Provides low income housing for the elderly and disabled.

Offers maternity services to those in need. A complete range of educational classes, birthing facilities, and post-birth care options are available. Call for more information to arrange a tour or to register for classes. Services include breast- feeding consultation, prepared brother and sister and grand-parenting classes, mother and baby exercise, and infant and child CPR, etc. Call for more information regarding postpartum depression.

Provides self-care skills, fine and visual motor skills, behavior, accessibility, positioning, play and leisure skills, work and vocational skills, and social skills.

• Ames Program: held at the Ames Community Center Gym - 515 Clark Avenue, Ames, Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 1:30 pm-2:30 pm
• Story City Program: held at the Mary Greeley Lifetime Fitness Center - 812 Elm Avenue, Story City, Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 11 am-12 pm

Provides the Police Department.

Primary Health Care Centralized Intake is the centralized intake location for Polk County. Anyone experiencing homelessness can be referred to PHC for assistance. Each case manager will complete an intake with the household and may provide referrals to shelter, housing, public benefits or any other resource that will meet the household needs. Anyone who may be seeking emergency shelter for their family should come to PHC to complete an intake as all emergency family shelters placements are referred through PHC.

Also offers a shower to those who are homeless and in need.