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Administers the General Assistance Program for Chickasaw, Fayette, Howard and Winneshiek counties to offer emergency financial assistance with rent, utilities, food, burial/cremation, and prescription medications.

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Prescription Medication Services
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Food Vouchers

Offers emergency assistance for such things as utility bill shut off notices, eviction notices, and emergency gas or food.

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Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance

When funding allows, may be able to help with limited financial assistance for basic needs such as childcare payments, rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, car repairs, transportation, prescription costs, etc., through the Community Services Block Grant. Eligibility requirements will apply, and ongoing case management will be required. Contact your local County Outreach Office for more information.

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Food Vouchers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Personal/Grooming Needs
Child Care Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance

Provides financial assistance for those experiencing financial hardship from a layoff, mental health issues, or strain from medical bills. Various assistance includes, rent, utilities, gas vouchers and prescriptions.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Financial assistance for rent, mortgage, and utilities.

Emergency services to homeless and other individuals in need, including motel vouchers.

Food pantry.

Gas vouchers.

Prescription expense assistance.

Money management education.

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Community Action Agencies
Medical Expense Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Stamps/SNAP
Transportation Expense Assistance
Food Pantries
Homeless Shelter
Mortgage Payment Assistance

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. 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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Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Transportation Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Work Clothing
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Provides bus passes and gas vouchers on a case by case basis.
Unemployment bus ticket offered to residents. Each can receive 20 free tickets in a twelve month period; an ID and current piece of mail for proof of address is required to receive tickets.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

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Prevocational Training
Benefits Screening
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Home Barrier Removal Grants
General Household Goods Provision
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Respite Care Subsidies
Supported Employment
Transportation Expense Assistance

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Categories

Prevocational Training
Benefits Screening
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Home Barrier Removal Grants
General Household Goods Provision
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Respite Care Subsidies
Supported Employment
Transportation Expense Assistance

When funding allows, may be able to help with limited financial assistance for basic needs such as childcare payments, rent, rent deposits, utilities, food, hygiene products, car repairs, transportation, prescription costs, etc., through the Community Services Block Grant. Eligibility requirements will apply, and ongoing case management will be required. Contact your local County Outreach Office for more information.

Categories

Food Vouchers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Temporary Financial Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Personal/Grooming Needs
Child Care Expense Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Provides emergency assistance for basic needs to county residence. Basic needs assistance includes rent and utility bill help, food, medical services (emergency dental extraction or prescriptions), transportation (fuel) and burial assistance (application must be made after death and before burial).

Program is for emergency needs that cannot be met by other means.

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Food Vouchers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Burial/Cremation Expense Assistance
Assists SNAP participants in finding employment and/or training for employment. Provides gas vouchers and other supportive services for independent job search, to attend job search training, vocational training and for job retention.

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Job Search/Placement
Welfare to Work Programs
Prejob Guidance
Transportation Expense Assistance

Advises and aids veterans and their dependents in applying for federal benefits through compensation or pension claims. Emergency financial assistance for basic necessities such as rent or mortgage payments, utilities, transportation assistance (bus tokens) and food may be available. Can also assists with applications for benefits made available by federal, state or local laws.

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County Government Departments/Offices
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Veteran Burial Benefits
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Food Vouchers

Provides discounted bus passes for older adults.

Offers a Disability Access Point, or "DAP", which help people with disabilities, their families, and their caregivers find the services and support they need-both short-term and long-term. DAPs help by giving information, making plans, making referrals and checking in to make sure people are getting the right support to live healthy, independent lives.

Can help with the following services:

- Information and Assistance - based on presented and identified needs, provides information about programs and services, and helps to connect individuals to service providers in their communities.

- Options Counseling - provides guidance to individuals so that they may make informed choices about supports and services, typically over a period of 90 days or less. This includes benefits screening and application assistance for programs and services and follow-ups to make sure supports and decisions are assisting the individual.

- Financial Assistance - provides gap funding and service coordination for programs and services that support individuals and their caregivers so that individuals may live in the home and community of their choice. Help with short-term services and long term services are also provided.

Short-term supports (time-limited) include adaptive and assistive equipment, home and vehicle modifications, peer and parent support services, rent assistance, transportation assistance, and other basic needs (not covered by insurance).

Long-term services and supports includes adult day programs, consumer-directed attendant care (CDAC) (non-skilled and skilled), day habilitation, employment like job skills training, prevocational services, and supported employment, intensive residential services (IRSH), personal response systems, respite services like in-home, in-facility, and day camps, supported community living (SCL) and home-based habilitation (hourly), and residential living settings.

Categories

Prevocational Training
Benefits Screening
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Specialized Information and Referral
Rent Payment Assistance
Home Barrier Removal Grants
General Household Goods Provision
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Respite Care Subsidies
Supported Employment
Transportation Expense Assistance
Gasoline voucher assistance for medical needs.
Participants receive debit card to pay for cab fare. Uber/Lyft reimbursement upon receipt of emailed receipts to be reimbursed up to a specific dollar amount.

Provides up to $150 to families for utilities, diapers, groceries, gas for vehicles, and other needs.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Food Vouchers
Diapers
Transportation Expense Assistance
Offers students free bus rides on all fixed routes operated by Cedar Rapids Transit. Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD) high school students, and Coe College, and Kirkwood Community College students will need to show their student ID. CRCSD elementary and middle school students are not required to show ID.
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

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Utility Service Payment Assistance
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance

Offers emergency financial assistance once per year to anyone in need. Assistance may be given in the areas of rental assistance, disaster relief, gasoline, utility (water/sewage/trash only), and uniforms assistance.

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Clothing Vouchers
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Disaster Related Cash Grants
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Can assist, when funding is available, eligible individuals and families with limited resources in need of help with past due or disconnected utilities, past due rent or mortgage, emergency medical and/or dental services, costs to engage in Mental Health services, costs to maintain or gain internet or phone access, transportation, vehicle repairs, swim lessons, seasonal swim passes, and costs associated with participation in extracurricular activities.

**While some costs may be covered under Federal funding sources, the Crisis Assistance program is largely funded by grants and donations. All Assistance identified above is dependent on available funding.

Categories

Utility Service Payment Assistance
Recreational/Leisure/Arts Instruction Expense Assistance
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Emergency financial assistance, including rent, utilities, and medical expenses.

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Medical Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance

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.

Proactive Families Financial Services 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.

Categories

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