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Provides in-home support to families receiving FIP (welfare) assistance, helping the family to increase stability and become economically self-sufficient. Family development specialists meet one-on-one with families in regular home visits. Together, specialists and families address the barriers affecting success by completing assessment tools and developing goals around areas critical to the family's overall well-being.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Provides equitable access and opportunities for economic success for underserved clients. Programs include job readiness, assisting with job placement and developing skills to aid in job retention, ELL, citizenship, computer skills, resume writing, networking, cultural transition support groups and peer discussions, effective parenting, education and coaching to enhance and promote financial literacy and long-term self-sufficiency, and other skills necessary to compete in the modern workplace.

The programs address the barriers impacting low income and refugee families and their ability to move along the self-sufficiency continuum. Barriers from employment discrimination, language barriers, poverty, family conflict, transportation, financial illiteracy, and much more. Programs and class offerings are designed to be flexible to fit individual needs, and include a "high touch" service model which is both culturally competent and language specific.

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Eye Examinations
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Job Search/Placement
Computer Literacy Training Programs
Cultural Transition Counseling
Parenting Skills Classes
Financial Literacy Training

Free, voluntary program where coaches work with families for 3-6 months to help navigate and access resources in the community, increase families' protective factors, and problem-solve to address challenges a family may be facing. A coach is assigned to meet with the family and connect them to needed support.

The program offers case management support, mental health services for parents/guardians and children, education support, and some supports to meet basic needs and ensure safety.

Other support includes assistance finding safe, stable housing, connections to local food resources, help applying for benefits and tracking application status, budgeting and employment assistance, and education supports for parents/guardians and children.

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Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Case/Care Management

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Program supports families and individuals who want to further their self-sufficiency. Guides and motivates individuals to achieve workplace stability. Coordinators will provide support, opportunity and resources to identify and meet goals.
Provides support through a home visiting process to assist families moving from welfare to work, financial crisis, and financial management using a partnership between the family and a certified Family Development specialist.
The mission is to improve the lives of families at risk of long-term welfare dependency or instability by creating opportunities for self-sufficiency.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Occupation Specific Job Training
Family Resource Centers/Outreach

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Offers comprehensive case management system that helps families identify barriers to self-sufficiency and connects them with community support organizations. Barriers could include unemployment, insecure housing, lack of job skills, lack of child care.

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Case/Care Management
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs

Offers a program that consists of structured home visits conducted by skilled family development specialists that include: assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Offers case management to provide targeted services to families wanting to break the generational cycle of poverty and enable a path out of constant crisis. Services include, moving families from crises and vulnerability to stability and eventually self-sufficiency, meeting with a caseworker to develop your personalized action plan, tracking progress, reaching milestones, prepare for the future, service connections to: job training, health services, childcare and education, housing options, legal services, and more.

Hotel Vouchers (through Stepping Stones program) are currently for one-night stays only, and are limited to Mason County. Contact for more information.

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, medical expenses, 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. 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.

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Mental Health Expense Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Comprehensive Information and Referral

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Iowa Workforce Development’s Migrant and Seasonal Farm Worker (MSFW) outreach program is focused on educating and assisting farm workers and agricultural employers. Farm workers receive training and employment services through IowaWORKS Centers to assist with attaining greater economic stability. The State Monitor Advocate helps ensure farm workers are served equitably through workforce programs.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Assistance with goal setting to create stability; assistance with budgeting needs.

Provides assistance with a variety of needs, including translation, interpretation of documents, benefit applications such as SNAP, Medicaid, ADC and SSI.

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Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
General Benefits and Services Assistance
Immigrant Benefits Assistance
Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.

Provides intense support to families receiving FIP (Family Investment Plan). Structured home visits conducted by family development specialists include assessments that support healthy self-exploration, science-informed goal pursuit designed to build core skills, a framework and process for career development, and connecting families to stabilizing supports and career opportunities in the community.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.
Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Offers a partnership with families who receive FIP to provide them with the support they need to gain independence from public assistance. The program is voluntary and does not affect FIP benefits. It is focused on families success and growth. Contact your local outreach center for more information.

Program is designed to help families become self-sufficient. Provides a family specialist to work with families to identify situations that promote success, set goals for to reach self-sufficiency, also to identify tools and resources to overcome barriers. Working in partnership with a specialist, families learn how to make their own decisions and learn what resources they can utilize for help. This program works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.