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Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Offers one-to-one counseling, group or family sessions for substance abuse including opioids, as well as for problem gambling. Offers substance abuse evaluation, DUI classes, restorative parenting classes, and referrals to other social services in the area.

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Gambling Disorder Counseling
Substance Use Disorder Counseling
DUI Offender Programs
Parenting Skills Classes
Assessment for Substance Use Disorders
Alcohol Use Disorder Support Groups
Drug Use Disorder Support Groups
Offers a Healthy Baby Shower for expecting mothers, hosted by ISU Extension and Outreach in Polk County and Nutrition 4 Young Children. Healthy baby showers are available in English and Spanish.

Learn about pregnancy and nutrition from an ISU Extension and Outreach health educator to give babies the best start possible. Participants will receive a backpack full of baby gifts after attending a virtual or in-person shower.

For more information or to register, contact staff. Registration is intended for expecting mothers who are residents of Polk County with limited resources.
The Family Resource Center provides a culturally welcoming environment where families and individuals can gather to develop personal, educational, and family skills.

Through the Family Strengthening Program, families learn about resources and positive ways to integrate into a new culture, overcome barriers and make informed decisions about their future.

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General Health Education Programs
Financial Literacy Training
Family Life Education
Nutrition Education
Parenting Skills Classes

Offers an incentive program open to all women who are pregnant and/or parenting children up through preschool age. Classes are offered in the areas of prenatal care, parenting, relationships, homemaking, and spirituality. Attending classes is one of many ways that clients can earn Mommy Money, which can then be spent for items in The Pregnancy Center's boutique.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes

Offers free and confidential pregnancy testing, birthing classes. Also helps with material items (i.e., diapers, formula, clothing, etc.) on a limited basis, provides limited ultrasound, STD testing and treatment, and parenting Classes (court mandated and voluntary).

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Pregnancy Testing
Diapers
Maternity Clothing
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Baby Clothing
Formula/Baby Food

Provides home-visitation services to new and expectant families to strengthen the parent child relationship, encouraged healthy child growth and development and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Child Care Provider Training
Co-Parenting Workshops
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Provides professional services to defuse family conflicts that can lead to family abduction, child abuse, and the sense of hopelessness that can cause children to run away.

Offers crisis intervention, conflict management, communication/parenting skill-building, safety planning, and more.

Information & Referral services provide additional options and resources regarding legal assistance, financial challenges, child support, kinship care, domestic violence, child abuse, youth-at-risk and other issues related to child well-being.

Services provided via phone or online.

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Missing Persons Location Assistance
Parenting Helplines
Mediation
Program offers education and skills to manage and cope with parenting a child with special needs.

Assists teenage and other at-risk mothers and their infants from conception up to 3 years of age.

Services provided:

-- Prenatal education.

-- Postnatal education.

-- Parenting skills classes.

-- Assistance with ongoing infant needs up to 3 years of age.

-- Assistance with infant Diapers Guidance.

-- Information and referrals to supportive services as needed.

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Childbirth Education
Specialized Information and Referral
Diapers
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers the Children In The Middle class for divorcing parents and other interested people. Provides education and affirmation for parents and others interested in the welfare of children. Primary focus is on children's needs and parent behavior. A class of this type is required for both parties in dissolution of marriage. Classes are currently offered online.

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Co-Parenting Workshops
Parenting Skills Classes
Court Ordered Parenting Programs
Home based public health services for prenatal mothers including prenatal risk assessment, health screenings and health education.

Dental screening for children 0-21 years of age (iSmile).

Service Coordination provided to children who are at risk for developmental delay.

HAWK-I Coordination provides health care coverage for Iowa children in families with limited income.

Child care nurse consultation with child care providers to improve health and safety practices.

Lead screening to children aged 12 months or 24 months who have not had a screening by their medical provider.

Care coordination to connect children to medical and dental homes that serve their particular needs (Care for Kids).

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Case/Care Management
Dental Screening
Lead Poisoning Screening

Incentive program for pregnant women, men, and women with children less than two years old.

Transportation services for medical and social service appointments.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Parenting Skills Classes
Provides research-based strategies to support the holistic development of the young child. Offers information and/or classes about parenting, grandparenting, discipline, child care selection, children and divorce, and money management.

Offers online professional development for early childhood professionals.

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Child Care Provider Training
Co-Parenting Workshops
Parenting Materials
Parenting Skills Classes
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Provides nursing visits to pregnant and parenting women living in Dallas, Polk, Madison and Warren Counties. Services include prenatal and postpartum health education and child development screening. Interpretation services are available.

Outreach Specialists assist uninsured families, children, and pregnant women in obtaining health care coverage and finding a doctor or dentist. Services include answering questions about available insurance options, assisting with completing Hawki or Medicaid applications, advocacy, community referrals, EveryStep Dental Voucher Program for children.

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Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Postpartum Care
Home Based Parenting Education
State/Local Health Insurance Programs
General Health Insurance Information/Counseling
Dental Care Referrals
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Works with families and children in need of a safe and stable home. Home studies, support for foster and adoptive parents and relative caregivers, safety planning for families in crises, and life and parenting skills training are some of the services offered.

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Foster Parent/Family Recruitment
Parenting Skills Classes
Adoptive Family Recruitment
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.
Offers ongoing educational classes for resume drafting, parenting, internet safety, child abuse prevention, etc.
Provides an Early Childhood prevention programs offering in home services to high risk new moms (prenatal to 5 years of age). Services include parenting education, support, transportation, developmental checks, connections with community resources, referrals and case management. Preventing child abuse and neglect, improving child health, positive parenting.

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Home Based Parenting Education
Expectant/New Parent Assistance
Offers a program for parents and youth to work together and build relationships. Participants will practice skills, play learning games, and do family projects in highly interactive sessions. Sessions are designed to increase family bonding, build positive communication skills, and solve problems together.