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Services to persons with developmental disabilities.

Residential services, alternative living.

Vocational services.

Family and medical support services, respite care.

Supported employment services and job search.

Contract Procurement/ Enclaves/Business in Industry.

Shared Living Provider.

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Adult In Home Respite Care
Adult Foster Homes
Supported Employment
Adult Out of Home Respite Care
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Children's Out of Home Respite Care
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Children's In Home Respite Care
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities

Offers employment services for individuals with developmental disabilities. Services include training and skill development, assistance in obtaining community employment, employer education and support, initial evaluation, on the job training, follow up support, and transition planning.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment

Offers personalized employment supports to obtain, maintain, or advance in employment. Examples of support include goal setting, resume preparation, job search assistance, resource navigation, benefits education, healthcare advisement and work incentives counseling.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Ticket to Work/Self Sufficiency Program
Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs

Community based residential programs for persons with intellectual disabilities over 16 years of age; private and state placements; teach daily living, hygiene, cooking, independent living skills, and mobility skills.

Prevocational services for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Job skills and job placement.

Day services for persons with multiple/severe disabilities.

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Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Adult Day Programs
Day Treatment for Adults With Developmental Disabilities
Vocational Rehabilitation

Provides a wide array of mental health and substance use treatment services, including:

-- Individual/group/family therapy.

-- Skill-building.

-- Self-management of behavioral symptoms and medication.

-- Independent community living.

-- Interpersonal relations and social skills.

-- Relapse prevention.

-- Motivation towards recovery.

-- Community-Based Case Management Services.

-- Supported Employment Services.

-- Housing/Homeless Case Management.

-- Psychiatric Medication.

-- School-Based Counseling for Youth.

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Relapse Prevention Programs
Case/Care Management
General Counseling Services
Psychiatric Medication Services
Supported Employment
Independent Living Communities/Complexes

Offers two levels of Supported Community Living Services designed to meet the daily living needs of adults with disabilities and mental illness. These services increase a client's independence and provide a level of relief for family members and caretakers. The level of service is determined by the individual, guardians, case managers, and providers to best suit their needs.

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Supported Employment
Group Residences for Adults With Disabilities
Disability Related Center Based Employment
Developmental Disabilities Day Habilitation Programs
Supported Living Services for Adults With Disabilities
Semi-Independent Living Residences for Adults With Disabilities

Provides meaningful volunteer opportunities for those in the lower income range who are 55 and older. The Foster Grandparents program offers supportive person-to-person services to at-risk children with exceptional needs in reading, math, spelling, art, and other constructive projects.

Career development, job development/planning, placement and on-going supports for persons with developmental or other disabilities.

Supported employment offers community-based work options for adults with developmental disabilities.

Job Club 8-week intensive job search program for individuals with disabilities. Participants focus on increasing employability skills, practicing interview skills, obtaining job leads, and helping one another.

Job Development assists adults with disabilities in determining the type of employment setting that best meets their needs, interests, and abilities. Staff assist with creating a resume and interviewing for jobs.

Job Coaching provides supplemental on the job training for adults with disabilities.

Continuing education classes are offered beyond high school in a variety of formats and settings and focus on independent living, money management, social, and employment-related skills.

Independent living services provide instruction for individuals who live in their own home (apartment or house) or in their family's home. Education, training and support is provided to maintain or increase independent living skills, such as money management, health and safety, interpersonal relations, community awareness, recreational skills, nutrition, hygiene and leisure.

The Art of Imagination classes offer artistic opportunities in traditional art forms such as painting, writing, drawing and photography and more alternative art forms such as papercraft, mail art, cartooning, post card and greeting card creation.

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Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Volunteer opportunities for individuals for the benefit of frail older persons with special needs. Matches volunteers with a frail older person. The volunteer can then provide such assistance as companionship, respite for a caregiver, escort and transportation, shopping assistance, letter writing, reading, or other chores which the older person is in need of and the volunteer is capable and willing to provide.

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Senior Corps Volunteer Programs
Adult In Home Respite Care
Errand Running/Shopping Assistance
Senior Ride Programs
Friendly Visiting

Provides services such as job placement assistance, unemployment insurance, unemployment tax liability services, services for veterans and seniors, labor market information, dislocated worker programs (Re-employment Services), a Welfare to Work program, proficiency testing and career guidance. Also issues work permits.

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Unemployment Insurance
Welfare to Work Programs
Job Search/Placement
Work Permits
Comprehensive Job Assistance Centers
Senior Community Service Employment Programs

Provides employment for individuals with disabilities. These employment opportunities help the individual develop work habits, build confidence, learn to collaborate with others, earn compensation and become more independent.

Provides individualized services to Iowans with disabilities to achieve their independence through successful employment and economic support.

**Visit website for information on local Vocational Rehabilitation Offices.

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Vocational Rehabilitation
Prevocational Training
Subsidized Employment
Vocational Assessment

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

Provides assistance to all eligible Veterans discharged from active military service under honorable conditions and/or their family members in applying for federal benefits and other Veteran's aid. VA benefits and services include Disability benefits, education and training services, home loans, burial benefits, dependents' and survivors' benefits, life insurance, and healthcare assistance.

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Veteran Burial Benefits
County Government Departments/Offices
Veteran Compensation and Pension Benefits
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Veteran Benefits Assistance
Vocational Rehabilitation

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

Benefits Screening
Rent Payment Assistance
Specialized Information and Referral
Supported Employment
General Household Goods Provision
Respite Care Subsidies
Prevocational Training
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Intermediate Care Facility/DD Transition Financing Programs
Aging and Disability Resource Centers
Long Term Care Options Counseling
Assistive Technology Equipment Provision Options
Nursing Home Transition Financing Programs
Home Barrier Removal Grants
Transportation Expense Assistance
Job placement and maintenance services assist people in obtaining community employment. Participants receive individualized and group support in resume development, job search and interviewing strategies, and networking. Job Placement Specialists help participants assess their strengths and needs, set personal goals, and explore their vocational interests. Staff also connect job seekers to area employers.

Certified for Success employment training programs include retail, hospitality, food handling, essential computer skills, IT Support Professional, and custodial certification programs. A combination of onsite and classroom training helps prepare participants for success.

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Job Search/Placement
Prevocational Training
Supported Employment
Vocational Assessment
Provides recovery and rehabilitation services and supports to consumers engaged in community-based competitive employment-related activities in normalized settings. A supported employment team provides assistance with all aspects of employment development as requested and needed by the consumer.

Vocational training and job placement for developmentally disabled.

Community living training.

In-home support.

Shelter workshops and integrated work environments.

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Disability Related Center Based Employment
Attendant Services for People With Disabilities
Job Search/Placement
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported Employment
Supported employment services to job seekers and employers to create successful job matches.

Offers to connect adult volunteers ages 55 and over with opportunities to engage in service to the community. Volunteers choose what fits their passions, interests, and schedules. The agency partners with the public, non-profit, and health care organizations to address needs in the areas of education, food security, independent living, financial security, disaster, and more.

Training activities like document destruction, janitorial tasks and clerical work are designed to increase work skills and behaviors.

Works with disabled individuals to find employment by assisting them with job readiness skills, benefits counseling, job development, and case management. The program works with local business, as well as state and federal agencies, to ensure that the services are all encompassing.

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Comprehensive Disability Related Employment Programs
Vocational Rehabilitation
Supported employment provides vocational services which promote and support inclusion within the community. Encourages and assists people in obtaining jobs in the community or running their own small business. The focus is on assessing interest, job placement, and job coaching.

Job coaching provides training for clients to perform job tasks to the employer's specifications and to learn the interpersonal skills necessary to be accepted as workers at the job site.

Vocational centers provide training to teach people vocational skills and an opportunity to earn an income through completion of contract work.

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Supported Employment
Vocational Rehabilitation
Disability Related Center Based Employment

Provides outpatient behavioral health services to those in need. Services include counseling (both individual and group), therapy, supported employment for individuals with mental and behavioral health challenges, and psychosocial rehabilitation (groups to help people with daily living skills and mental illness recovery).

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General Counseling Services
Supported Employment