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Offers assessments and 26 week psycho-educational group services for persons who use power and control in their intimate relationships.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
General Abuse Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention

Provides a variety of domestic violence services, including, 24/7 domestic violence hotline, domestic violence shelters for individuals and families, legal advocacy for domestic violence, assistance with obtaining and filing orders of protection, domestic violence counseling services., Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Offers assessments and 26 week psycho-educational group services for persons who use power and control in their intimate relationships.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
General Abuse Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Rape crisis center services are available via the hotline. Sexual assault program services include:

-- Crisis intervention

-- 24-hour response at medical facilities or police stations

-- Assistance and support with medical and legal procedures

-- Counseling for child and adult survivors of sexual assault

The YWCA also provides information and referral and extensive community education programs for:

-- Helping school children learn how to stay safe from abuse and how to report it

-- Helping schools work against bullying

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

-- Providing professional training on sexual harassment, sexual assault issues, and many related topics

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Counseling
Child Sexual Assault Prevention
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Discrimination Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Tax Information
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides advocates who are able to guide survivors through the legal system and help them access available legal remedies. Advocates also access immigration remedies through protective statutes such as the Violence Against Women Act. Agency operates a volunteer attorney led family law clinic in partnership with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.

Categories

Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters

Rape crisis center services are available via the hotline. Sexual assault program services include:

-- Crisis intervention

-- 24-hour response at medical facilities or police stations

-- Assistance and support with medical and legal procedures

-- Counseling for child and adult survivors of sexual assault

The YWCA also provides information and referral and extensive community education programs for:

-- Helping school children learn how to stay safe from abuse and how to report it

-- Helping schools work against bullying

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

-- Providing professional training on sexual harassment, sexual assault issues, and many related topics

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Counseling
Child Sexual Assault Prevention

Rape crisis center services are available via the hotline. Sexual assault program services include:

-- Crisis intervention

-- 24-hour response at medical facilities or police stations

-- Assistance and support with medical and legal procedures

-- Counseling for child and adult survivors of sexual assault

The YWCA also provides information and referral and extensive community education programs for:

-- Helping school children learn how to stay safe from abuse and how to report it

-- Helping schools work against bullying

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

-- Providing professional training on sexual harassment, sexual assault issues, and many related topics

Categories

Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Adult Sexual Assault Prevention
Sexual Assault/Incest Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Sexual Assault Hotlines
Sexual Assault Counseling
Child Sexual Assault Prevention

Provides advocates who are able to guide survivors through the legal system and help them access available legal remedies. Advocates also access immigration remedies through protective statutes such as the Violence Against Women Act. Agency operates a volunteer attorney led family law clinic in partnership with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.

Categories

Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Discrimination Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Tax Information
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Offers assessments and 26 week psycho-educational group services for persons who use power and control in their intimate relationships.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
General Abuse Prevention
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Prevention

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services

Services include:

-- 24-hour crisis line and crisis intervention

-- Safe shelter

-- Counseling for adults and children

-- Support groups for adults and children

-- Assistance with orders of protection and other court-related advocacy

-- Parenting assistance

-- Abuser groups held in an outside location

-- Healthy Relationships groups for high school students

Categories

Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Protective/Restraining Orders
Abuse Counseling
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Helping Services for Youth and Families offers advocacy and crisis intervention services for victims of domestic violence. Services include: A 24-hour domestic violence helpline; A 24-hour Domestic Abuse Survivor chat line, which can be reached at https://www.helpingservices.org/chat/; Short-term safe homes and connections to transitional housing services; Advocacy and counseling services; Assistance with protective orders and other court services; Accompaniment to legal and medical appointments; Child advocates and support groups for children who have been exposed to domestic violence; and Provision of basic necessities such as personal care items, clothing, gas or food cards, and comfort items for children.

Categories

Temporary Restraining Orders
Safe Houses
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Spouse/Intimate Partner Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Counseling for Children Affected by Domestic Violence
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Domestic Violence Shelters

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters

Provides crisis shelter for those who are victims of domestic violence. In addition, the following services are provided for both domestic violence and sexual assault survivors, legal advocacy, medical advocacy, prevention education, supportive counseling, sexual assault victim therapy. children's counseling (domestic and sexual violence), case management.

Categories

Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Abuse Counseling
Domestic Violence Hotlines
Domestic Violence Intervention Programs
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic Violence Shelters
Free legal assistance with civil legal problems involving basic necessities for low-income individuals in all 99 Iowa counties. Assistance ranges from providing counsel and advice to representation before various agencies and courts.

Community legal education presentations offered, as well as over 20 printed booklets on various legal topics; a wide variety of legal education materials are also available on the website.

Legal services are provided in all civil legal areas, including:
Consumer/Finance - debt collection, repossession, garnishment, contracts/warranties, predatory lending, and public utilities (including utility disconnection or shut off notices).

Education - expulsion/suspension, special education, learning disabilities, school fees, access, vocational education, and student financial aid.

Employment - employment discrimination, wage claims, earned income tax credit, and taxes.

Family - adoption, custody, visitation, guardianship, domestic abuse, human trafficking and exploitation, family violence (child abuse, elder abuse, battered women/men), including assistance with restraining orders, and child support.

Health - Medicaid, Medicare, government children's health insurance programs, long term health care facilities, nursing homes, supplemental medical insurance, and hospital care.

Housing - federally subsidized housing, homeownership, real property, landlord/tenant, public housing, mobile homes, housing discrimination, foreclosures, forfeitures, and mortgage predatory lending practices.

Benefit Programs - ADFC/FIP, Social Security, food stamps, Social Security Disability (SSD), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), unemployment compensation, veterans benefits, FEMA, government benefits, and utility assistance applications.

Individual Rights - mental health, disability rights, civil rights, human trafficking, AIDS/HIV issues, assistive devices, and institutional confinement.

End of Life Planning - wills, living wills, advance directives, and power of attorney.

Drivers License.

Advocacy and legal assistance for people with disabilities, people with Alzheimer's disease, people with brain injury, people with mental illness, children, migrants, and veterans.

Categories

Landlord/Tenant Assistance
Debt Management
Patient Rights Assistance
Protection and Advocacy for Individuals With Disabilities
Child Support Assistance/Enforcement
Adoption Legal Services
Will Preparation Assistance
Advance Medical Directives
Consumer Law
Child Custody/Visitation Assistance
Human Trafficking Legal Assistance
Labor and Employment Law
School System Advocacy
Discrimination Assistance
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders
Legal Representation
Certificates/Forms Assistance
Tax Information
Welfare Rights Assistance
Legal Information Services
General Legal Aid
Veteran Benefits Assistance

Provides advocates who are able to guide survivors through the legal system and help them access available legal remedies. Advocates also access immigration remedies through protective statutes such as the Violence Against Women Act. Agency operates a volunteer attorney led family law clinic in partnership with Chicago Volunteer Legal Services.

Categories

Ethnic Advocacy Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services
Protective/Restraining Orders

Provides a variety of domestic violence services, including, 24/7 domestic violence hotline, domestic violence shelters for individuals and families, legal advocacy for domestic violence, assistance with obtaining and filing orders of protection, domestic violence counseling services., Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Therapy (EMDR).

Categories

Domestic Violence Hotlines
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
Protective/Restraining Orders
Domestic Violence Shelters
Domestic Violence Support Groups
Domestic/Family Violence Legal Services