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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.
An in-home family development program for FIP recipients and their families. Focus is to support families in moving toward self-sufficiency, meet their goals, attaining skills and employment.

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, and more.

Proactive Families Financial Services 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.

Services

Work Clothing
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Case/Care Management
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Grants/Loans
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Rental Deposit Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Intensive case management for families with children. Works to set and attain goals to break the cycle of poverty.

Offers case management services to families with at least one child under the age of 18. Case management works to help families reach stability. Goals created are client-oriented, and case managers connect clients to job training, health services, housing options, legal help, education, and more.

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.

Services

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Case/Care Management
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.

Program designed to assist FIP recipients achieve self-sufficiency through a partnership between the family and certified Family Development Specialists. Staff works with the family to help them set goals and strive towards them while working with the family to help them overcome their everyday problems and barriers.

Provides help to individuals with develop and to achieve life goals. Offers participants social-emotional support and acts as a bridge in making connections to immediate needs, as well as developing life-changing skills. The program has 3 phases, each phase lasting 60 days. The participant will meet one on one with a Fountain of Youth professional each week to see how they are progressing with their goals and what can be done to help. This program consists of each participant making an individual success plan that pertains to one of the following areas: knowledge of self and others, citizenship, basic life skills, education, health and wellbeing, financial literacy and workplace success. The program is a minimum of 60 days commitment and a maximum of 6 months.


Services

Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Life Skills Education
Personal Financial Counseling
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.
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.
Housing Authority of Cook County administers the Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) Program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which aims to to empower people to take control of their lives by becoming independent, productive members of their communities.Families will work with FSS coordinators to figure out their individual goals-reducing debt, getting a degree, starting a new career, becoming a homeowner, and more. As household income increases, HACC manages an escrow account to help families build financial assets. Families who successfully complete the program will receive a payout from the escrow account to put towards their goals. Eligible participants of the FSS program may also participate in the Homeownership Program which can help first-time homebuyers with affording a mortgage.
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 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.

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

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.

Family development assessment which helps families determine strengths and barriers toward being self-sufficient and to aid in setting family goals.
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, and more.

Limited funding sometimes available for vehicle repair, minor home repairs and dental work.

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.

Services

Rent Payment Assistance
Rental Deposit Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Case/Care Management
Medical Expense Assistance
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Dental Care
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Work Clothing
Automotive Repair and Maintenance
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
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.
Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.
Offers addiction group counseling, community service activities and other educational programming such as the legal clinic, financial management, citizenship restoration, fair housing and lead based paint awareness, health screenings, home buyers, employment and voter education. Employment Preparation and placement services for unskilled, low income or formerly incarcerated persons in partnership with other state and local entities.

Services

General Addictions/Substance Use Disorder Support Groups
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
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, 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.

Services

Case/Care Management
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Medical Expense Assistance
Rent Payment Assistance
Transportation Expense Assistance
Comprehensive Information and Referral
Economic Self Sufficiency Programs
Rental Deposit Assistance
Home Maintenance and Minor Repair Services
Mental Health Expense Assistance
Work Clothing
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 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.

Works with community partners to help those in the program gain access to needed services.

Helps individuals achieve economic and social self-sufficiency.