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Offers a career center on site which provides help with resumes, applications, job referrals, practice interviews, and financial literacy training, when available.

Provides comprehensive services dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, including CPR/first aid training, professional healthcare education, patient support, and public advocacy for heart-healthy policies. They aim to improve cardiovascular health through research, education, and community resources.

Annual events include Heart Walk, Heart Ball, and Go Red for Women Luncheon. 

Summer day camp program for children and young adults from birth to age 21 who are medically fragile, developmentally delayed, and/or physically challenged.  Contact local office for more information.

Provide an opportunity for individuals to connect with others in a confidential, anonymous setting for sharing of a common experience. If telephone meetings are listed as closed, then only people with a desire to stop drinking may attend. If the meeting is listed as open, anyone may attend. Use the AA Phone Meetings website to find meetings.

Offers a free and confidential crisis line for veterans. Can also help with local suicide prevention coordinators, who can connect veterans to ongoing counseling and services in their area. 

Provides subsidized housing units for lower income individuals and families through USDA Rural Development program. Also provides affordable conventional housing that accepts Section 8. Multifamily units are available in a variety of towns throughout Iowa.

Offers swimming lessons, water aerobic classes and senior water aerobics. Swim team is available for ages up to 18 years.

Provides assistance to formerly incarcerated individuals and their families with wraparound services and case management focusing on a 72-hour transitional plan, employment, and individualized coaching support.

Offers help for individuals to achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.

Helps homeowners and tenants save their homes through available legal strategies, including foreclosure defenses in court, bankruptcy, income generation, loan modification, and various alternatives to foreclosure.

Helps with subsidized housing (public housing, Section 8 and other rental assistance) evictions, termination of assistance, rent calculations, and admissions issues, evictions from mobile home parks, evictions by private landlords, discrimination and disability accommodation (see Fair Housing Project), foreclosure, property tax, and other homeownership issues, and housing protection for seniors, veterans, and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Alternative education for students expelled, suspended, or struggling at their regular school. Program options:

- Regional Safe School Program (RSSP): for regular education students who have been disruptive in the education program.

- Options: Safe and secure classroom for students who suffer from anxiety and other non-disciplinary attendance issues.

- FLEX: Late-day program (3:30 pm-8 pm) for at-risk students and those with attendance struggles.

Provides substance abuse treatment services to children and adults. Services include assessments, counseling and outpatient treatment options.

National office for more than 1,800 local United Way organizations around the world.

Nearly all donation, funding, and assistance issues, as well as many policy decisions are handled at the local level, and questions relating to these issues are best addressed to local United Ways. Type zip code on website to find your local United Way.

Provides an Independent, Catholic, Co-Ed, four year liberal arts college. Degrees in over thirty major fields of study.