| The Family Help Guide is designed to help you locate community resources and support services across Iowa. The amount of information and resources available in our community can be overwhelming to access, we can help you navigate the search. This directory includes resources and information about the people and programs available in your area to support and empower you. If you would like a resource added or revised, you may use the contact button at the top of this page or email the information to iafamilysupportnetwork@everystep.org |
Note: Distances are approximate.
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DMACC Urban Campus
Community Fridge
Eligibility:
Must be a DMACC Student
Hours:
Building hours – varies
3 day food supply, personal care and household cleaning items. Bring a photo ID. Items vary. Quantities based on family size
3 day food supply, personal care and household cleaning items
Eligibility:
DMARC Once a month
Intake Process:
Bring a photo ID, insurance cards for kids
Hours:
Monday 4 – 7
Friday 9-12
Website: Visit Website
Full service food panty
Eligibility:
Full service with IDs
Limited supply without IDs.
Urbandale Food Pantry
Intake Process:
Need to register with them upon arrival
Hours:
Monday – Thursday 9:30 AM till 6:15PM
Saturday 8AM – 11:45AM
Website: Visit Website
DMARC Food pantry, anytime food pantry, personal care pantry
West Des Moines Food & Personal care pantry
food, personal items, clothing
Eligibility:
DMARCC registration, IDs for anyone in household
anytime food no registration
Intake Process:
registration and IDs for those serving with in the family
Hours:
Monday 8:30 am – 3pm
Tuesday 8:30 am – 3pm
4:30am – 6pm
Wednesday 8:30 am – 12
Thursday 8:30am – 3 pm
Friday 8:30am – 12
Website: Visit Website
Des Moines Public schools’ food pantries provide food assistance to your child, call your child’s main school office for assistance.
Eligibility:
DMPS children
Urban Dreams Community Food Pantry
Visit once a day Mon – Friday for food pantry
Hours:
Monday – Friday 9am – 5pm.
Website: Visit Website
IMPACT Polk County Drake Neighborhood
once a month food pantry
Eligibility:
Register with IDs of all family members
Hours:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 8am -4:30PM
Wednesday 9:20am – 4:30pm
IMPACT Polk County Ankeney Located in the community resource Connection Bldg.
Food pantry
Eligibility:
Register, IDs needed for family members, once a month
Hours:
8am – 4:30 Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
9:30 – 4:30 Wednesday
Polk County Health Department creates the conditions for all people to live healthy lives by engaging residents, reducing health disparities and attending to the needs of our most vulnerable families.
• Provide health assessments such as sports physicals and well child checkups to ensure our youth’s health and safety.
• Keep the community, employers and employees safe through work physicals and drug tests.
• Provide testing, treatment, education and counseling for sexually transmitted diseases.
• Promote disease prevention through adult and travel immunization clinics.
• Ensure the health of newly immigrated individuals and refugees through our green card immunization services.
• Provide people who are uninsured or underinsured access to free breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screenings, as well as heart health screenings through the Ribbons of Hope program.
Hours:
Monday – Friday 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Website: Visit Website
The Polk County Department of Community, Family & Youth Services manages and provides a variety of direct and purchased services for families and individuals in all age groups.
- River Place Food Pantry
- Crisis and Advocacy Services
- General Assistance
- Family Enrichment Center
Community Health Partners offers the Healthy Families Program to parent(s) who are expecting a baby or have a newborn infant. Healthy Families is nationally accredited by Healthy Families America. It is a free, voluntary, culturally humble program that focuses on family strengths and healthy parent child interaction and bonding. The goals of the Healthy Families Program are safe and healthy children and families, empowered parents, and school ready children. Priority for service is given to single parents, first-time parents, and teen parents.
Eligibility:
- Prenatal families or families with newborns may be eligible for HOPES services.
- A Family Support Worker may work with a family until a child reaches five years of age or until the family no longer request services.
- Reside in Fremont, Montgomery, and Page counties
Intake Process:
Interested in joining the program?
Click the link below to fill out the referral form, and be sure to list Southwest Iowa Families in the “referred by” section.
Can be completed in person, just stop by office.
🔗 https://www.childandfamilyresourcenetwork.org/form
Hours:
Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm
Payment:
No cost to participant.
Website: Visit Website
- WIC
Intake Process:
Contact for further information: Pottawattamie County Government, Iowa – Find Your Fire
Payment:
No cost to participant.
Website: Visit Website
Pregnancy Center of Central Iowa offers free and confidential services to parents to be in central Iowa. Pregnancy center of central Iowa offers an educational incentive program. Participants earn points for attending pregnancy classes. The points are used to redeem for needed baby items.
Hours:
Monday – Thursday 12pm – 4pm.
Payment:
No cost to participant
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Appointment Needed: Yes
Website: Visit Website
- Family Planning Services
Hours:
Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Appointment Needed: Yes
- Family Planning Services
Hours:
Monday – Thursday 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Appointment Needed: Yes
- Family Planning Services
Hours:
Monday – Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Handicap Accessible: Yes
- Family Planning Services
Hours:
Monday – Thursday 8:00 am – 7:00 pm
Friday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Appointment Needed: Yes
Website: Visit Website
Quitline Iowa is a free telephone service for Iowa residents trying to become tobacco free. Members receive special tools, research-based information, and a community of other individuals trying to become tobacco free. Services are individualized to meet specific needs of each person.
The quitline provides three different quit programs, designed to meet your style of communication, and the support you’re seeking as you quit tobacco. All quit programs will help you deal with the emotional, behavioral, and physical aspects that make quitting so hard.
- Phone + Online
Coaching over the phone, plus email, text, chat, web-based materials, and quit progress tracking through our website. - Phone Only
Coaching over the phone, plus materials, quit planning, and quit progress tracking. - Online Only
Materials, quit planning, and quit progress tracking through our website.
- Tobacco cessation resources
- Coaching
- Tobacco cessation community
Eligibility:
You must be an Iowa resident to participate in the program. To qualify for nicotine patches, gum or lozenges, you must be 18 years of age or older. It may also be helpful to discuss quitting tobacco with your medical provider.
Intake Process:
Enrollment takes place on the Quitline Iowa website or by calling 1-800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669).
Interpreters Available:
Spanish
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Website: Visit Website
The purpose of the Regional Genetics Consultation service is to provide genetic health care services and education for patients and families within the state of Iowa through statewide outreach services; in order to promote health, prevent disease, reduce the incidence of congenital disorders and improve outcomes for those with birth defects and genetic disorders.
Eligibility:
Clinic should be contacted to obtain description of exact eligibility requirements. In general, following documentation is needed: medical records from current doctors, records of related imaging studies, and records of laboratory studies.
Intake Process:
Please call our general scheduling line at: 1-888-573-5437. Representative will inform caller of documentation requirements and provide information about service being requested.
Hours:
Not all services at PSC have the same hours of availability. Please call our general scheduling line at: 1-888-573-5437
Monday through Friday 8am to 5pm
Appointment Needed: Yes
Website: Visit Website
The purpose of the Regional Genetics Consultation service is to provide genetic health care services and education for patients and families within the state of Iowa through statewide outreach services; in order to promote health, prevent disease, reduce the incidence of congenital disorders and improve outcomes for those with birth defects and genetic disorders.
Eligibility:
Clinic should be contacted to obtain description of exact eligibility requirements. In general, following documentation is needed: medical records from current doctors, records of related imaging studies, and records of laboratory studies.
Intake Process:
Please call our general scheduling line at: 1-888-573-5437. Representative will inform caller of documentation requirements and provide information about service being requested.
Eligibility:
- Family Planning Services
Mailing Address:
PO Box 458
Ottumwa, IA 52501
Handicap Accessible: Yes
Appointment Needed: Yes