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Offers comprehensive programs and housing for young women who are facing an unplanned pregnancy. Provides housing, counseling, education and career development, life skills, nutrition and health care, spiritual guidance, referrals for other human services, and specialized education on the options of parenting or placing for adoption.


Not an emergency shelter.

Services

Transitional Housing/Shelter
Maternity Homes
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Teen Family Planning Programs
This collaborative project serves transition-aged youth (age 18-24) experiencing homelessness or housing instability. Barriers are address that limit access to housing, such as income, lack of education, background, or discrimination. Tailored services provide a path to independent living through transitional and rapid-re-housing models.

Provides help to get young adults into safe, secure housing so they can focus on building a brighter future. These programs provide living options that center on participants achieving self-sufficiency. YSS advocates work one-on-one with the participants to create a plan to acquire safe and secure housing, stable employment, and financial stability.

Programs include:
Transitional Living Program (Ames, Boone, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 16-21
Rapid Rehousing (Ames, Boone, Des Moines, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 18-24
Lighthouse (Boone, Des Moines) - Families with parents ages 16-24
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Des Moines) - Single individuals or families ages 18-24 based on income

Services

Supervised Living for Older Youth
Youth Centers
Transitional Housing/Shelter

Provides help to get young adults into safe, secure housing so they can focus on building a brighter future. These programs provide living options that center on participants achieving self-sufficiency. YSS advocates work one-on-one with the participants to create a plan to acquire safe and secure housing, stable employment, and financial stability.

Programs include:
Transitional Living Program (Ames, Boone, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 16-21
Rapid Rehousing (Ames, Boone, Des Moines, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 18-24
Lighthouse (Boone, Des Moines) - Families with parents ages 16-24
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Des Moines) - Single individuals or families ages 18-24 based on income

Services

Supervised Living for Older Youth
Youth Centers
Transitional Housing/Shelter

Foster care program for teens.

Services

Homeless Permanent Supportive Housing
Case/Care Management
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Life Skills Education

Provides help to get young adults into safe, secure housing so they can focus on building a brighter future. These programs provide living options that center on participants achieving self-sufficiency. YSS advocates work one-on-one with the participants to create a plan to acquire safe and secure housing, stable employment, and financial stability.

Programs include:
Transitional Living Program (Ames, Boone, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 16-21
Rapid Rehousing (Ames, Boone, Des Moines, Marshalltown) - Single individuals ages 18-24
Lighthouse (Boone, Des Moines) - Families with parents ages 16-24
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance (Des Moines) - Single individuals or families ages 18-24 based on income

Services

Supervised Living for Older Youth
Youth Centers
Transitional Housing/Shelter

Provides assistance for youth, ages 17 up to age 23, who are preparing to exit or have 'aged out' of foster care or other court ordered placement, meet the challenges of living independently and transition successfully to adulthood.Case Management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

Services

Occupation Specific Job Training
Life Skills Education
Transitional Housing/Shelter
Case/Care Management
Independent Living Skills Instruction
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Youth in the Transitional Living Program (TLP) live in one of their shared residences which are staffed around-the-clock with Lawrence Hall Life Skills Educators. Life skills groups teach budgeting, employment skills, career planning, financial competence, time management, and basic apartment upkeep to prepare them for independent living. Their TLP prepares youth for the Independent Living Program or shared housing after they age out of DCFS care.
Kids Above All's Emerge Program helps young adults in the city of Chicago and Lake County, between the ages of 18 and 24, who are experiencing homelessness to achieve self-sufficiency through housing support and case management.Emerge in Chicago offers both transitional and rapid rehousing for youth ages 18-24. Kids Above All's Emerge Program in Lake County provides rapid rehousing to youth ages 18-24. Both program accept both individuals or youth with children of their own. In additional to housing, Kids Above All also provides wrap-around services.
Shelter's Transitional Living Program (TLP) is a two-year, voluntary program for young people ages 17-21 who are assigned male at birth. It helps residents achieve self-sufficiency and independence.Young people join TLP because they want to lead the everyday, healthy, productive life they were denied through no fault of their own. They often come to TLP lacking the basic life skills that most take for granted, like budgeting finances, applying for a job, grocery shopping, or even doing the laundry. TLP teaches these and other vital, foundational lessons.
Provides assistance with independent living services for Nebraska youth (generally ages 16-21) who may be aging out of the state foster care system.
Provides an individualized service plan including supportive services to young adults transitioning into the community while developing independent living skills.
Kids Above All's Emerge Program helps young adults in the city of Chicago and Lake County, between the ages of 18 and 24, who are experiencing homelessness to achieve self-sufficiency through housing support and case management.Emerge in Chicago offers both transitional and rapid rehousing for youth ages 18-24. Kids Above All's Emerge Program in Lake County provides rapid rehousing to youth ages 18-24. Both program accept both individuals or youth with children of their own. In additional to housing, Kids Above All also provides wrap-around services.

Offers help for older youth to transition to living on their own. Youth acquire practical living skills and are helped with the move from system dependence to independence.

Case management designed for adolescents who are at risk of becoming homeless upon emancipation from DCFS. Services include assistance with locating/maintaining housing, employment, and other items necessary to sustain independence within the community.
Provides housing, employment services, counseling, life skills training and more to youth who are homeless, at-risk of becoming homeless, or aging out of foster care.
Transitional Living: Guides youth ages 17.5 to 21 years old towards independence and self-sufficiency such as attending school, seeking employment and more.
Scattered Sites Apartment Living: Provides apartment living for adolescents including case management, employment and educational services, medical and psychiatric services and more.
Assistance for youth, 18 - 21 years of age, who have 'aged out' of foster care, meet the challenges of living independently, and achieve self efficiency.

Case management provides coordination and linkage to available community resources.

Services include life skills training and experimental learning opportunities, assistance in obtaining and maintaining a safe and stable place to live, assistance in identifying and achieving personal education and employment goals, access to financial assistance to meet emergency or short-term needs, and assistance in obtaining medical care and mental health services.

Services

Life Skills Education
Supervised Living for Older Youth
The Youth Housing and Advocacy program prevents substitute care placement by providing housing assistance and advocacy. In addition, youth who are aging out of foster care are served, helping to find affordable housing for successful independent living.
Scattered Sites Apartment Living: Provides apartment living for adolescents including case management, employment and educational services, medical and psychiatric services and more.
A residential program offering education and support to girls transitioning out of foster care.
Scattered Sites Apartment Living: Supports older youth by helping them learn and practice the skills necessary to successfully transition into adult life. Services include apartment living, case management, employment and educational services, medical and psychiatric services and linking youth with positive community resources and adult mentors.
Foster Care programs are designed to find safe, secure, and nurturing homes for children who cannot live with their families. Services offered: - Licensing, training, and becoming a foster parent. - Stable foster placements for children and adolescents. - Specialized care plans for youth with special needs (mental, behavioral, medical, and developmental). - Independent living opportunity for older adolescents to transition from foster care to an independent lifestyle. - Finding permanent solutions for children in foster care (returning to biological parents, kinship/guardianship, and adoption).

Services

Foster Home Placement
Case/Care Management
Foster Home Licensing
Supervised Living for Older Youth
Therapeutic Foster Homes
Helps older youth transition to living on their own. Youth acquire practical living skills and are helped with the move from system dependence to independence.