Programs
Community Health - Outreach about available health programs, community health care events, and free HIV testing.
Community Care Case Management - In home services to prevent child abuse & neglect.
Community Wireless Internet Program - Broadband Internet network and computer education for low-income neighborhoods.
Full Service Community Schools - Extended school day programming to improve academics.
Gertrude E. Rush Legal Education Project - Free legal referral services and community education events.
Healthy Start & Empowerment - Prenatal, child development, and parental skill development case management.
H.E.R.O. (Habilitation and Empowerment for Returning Offenders) - Job counseling and job placement with an array of life skills interventions (including Beneficiary Choice program that provides pre-employment job training).
Information and Referral - Helps people who are in need of shelter, food, clothing, jobs, etc.
Iowa Brown & Black Forum - A national non-partisan forum that addresses minority issues in Presidential, gubernatorial, and other elections.
Latino Dreams - ESL classes, naturalization classes, and translation services for all of Urban Dreams’ programs.
Links to Learning - Provides a structured learning environment to suspended students and school-based suspension prevention groups.
P.L.A.Y.E.R.S. (Providing Links between Athletes & Youth to Empowering Resources in Society) - This program works with student athletes to overcome negative influences and improve college graduation rates.
Parent Educators - In home child development and parenting skills services.
Pre-employment programs - school-based programs for middle school students to explore career opportunities, develop academic plans, and learn hard & soft skills (Sponsors: MidAmerican Energy, Mercy College of Health Sciences).
S.A.V.E. (Substance Abuse Variation Explorations) - Outpatient substance abuse treatment, supportive service referrals, culturally competent treatment pilot project for African Americans without insurance, and OWI classes.
S.M.A.R.T. (Skills Modeling And Remedial Training) - Skill based interventions for youth with a mental health diagnosis to overcome symptoms and improve their quality of life.
Social Mediation - Provides consultation with issues and community concerns.
Teenage Pregnancy Prevention - Focus on teenage pregnancy & HIV/STD prevention.
U-CARE (Urban Children Are Really Essential) - Reducing disproportionate minority contact rates with the juvenile justice system through implementation of community-based programming.
V.O.T.E (Voting Opportunities Through Education) - A statewide non-partisan effort to increase civic engagement.
West Side Boxing Club - Collaborative program with the Des Moines Police Department to teach boxing and life skills.
Youth Recreation, Arts & Culture - Inner-city sports leagues, arts and cultural experience for youth and their families.
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