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The Broadway Youth Center (BYC) Youth Action Board is a group of young people who provide input on services and help inform BYC's programs and care. The Youth Action Board advises BYC on ways to better serve youth experiencing homelessness and youth that are unstably housed. It's an opportunity to meet other young people, learn skills you can use in the future, and advocate for youth.The Youth Action Board is currently recruiting!

Services

Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Youth Issues Information Services
Provides planning assistance in areas of land use, housing, capital improvements, zoning, subdivision regulations, drainage, water quality, etc.
Catalyst for addressing common concerns of independent schools.
Builds networks of support for and with survivors of domestic violence while advancing statewide policies and practices to eliminate and prevent domestic abuse.
Planning, coordination, and funding organization for mental health programs that serve Rock Island County residents with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and/or chemical dependency. No direct services provided.
Community partnership seeking to create a healthy community. The Initiative strives to be the community's recognized leader for creating collaborative action on health and abides by the core values of commitment, collaboration, and creativity.

Services

General Health Education Programs
Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups

Plans for the systematic delivery of services for persons age 60 years and older and their family caregivers.

Offers local governments a wide variety of technical assistance on land use planning, zoning and subdivision regulations. We can provide information on historic preservation, recreation planning, downtown revitalization, and urban renewal special taxation districts.

Des Moines Area Sports Commission (DMASC) is the local sports authority handling and promoting sporting events throughout the area.

Umbrella agency that supports Scott County Early Childhood Iowa, Scott County Decategorization, and provides oversight and monitoring to Dubuque, Clinton, Jackson, Cedar, Muscatine, Lee, Henry, Des Moines, and Louisa Counties Decategorization projects and Scott County Community Partnerships for the Protecting of Children. Provides community planning and funding and seeks to address and overcome systemic challenges that interrupt the lives of children ages birth to 18, while increasing access and streamlining resources throughout the community.

Scott County Early Childhood Iowa receives state and federal money to contract with local agencies that support and address multiple issues for children ages birth to 5.

Decategorization provides programming that will deter children and youth ages 6-18 from entering or safe exit from the Juvenile Justice and the Child Welfare Systems. Serves Dubuque, Clinton, Jackson, Scott, Cedar, Muscatine, Lee, Louisa, Des Moines, and Henry Counties

Scott County Health Committee convenes the health community members and address health issues surrounding children and youth of Scott County.

CPPC: Scott County-Community Partnership for Protecting Children increases awareness with child abuse and implement the four strategies of policy and practice change, neighborhood networking, family team meeting, and shared decision making.
Transportation planning, including community planning coordination and development information services. Research, grant writing, socio/economic data maintenance. Census Bureau contact point. Economic development coordination.

Plans for the systematic delivery of services for persons age 60 years and older and their family caregivers.

Service agencies who focus on youth concerns plan and present an annual Quad Cities Youth Conference. The mission is to provide youth with the opportunity to enhance decision-making skills which are necessary for living in a socially complex world and to establish contacts with community resources.
Helps low-income families achieve and maintain self-sufficiency through a variety of programs. Two primary purposes: provide essential anti-poverty programs, and advocate for the needs of the poor. Networks with various social service agencies, community groups, and businesses in the county to better serve the low-income population. Services include: - Family Centered Services. - Employment Related Services. - Budgeting. - Time Management . - Household Emergencies. - Applying for Governmental Benefits. - Information & Referral Services.

Services

Rent Payment Assistance
Personal Financial Counseling
Mortgage Payment Assistance
Planning/Coordinating/Advisory Groups
Utility Service Payment Assistance
Information and Referral
Recruits and retains foster and adoptive parents for abused and neglected children. Provides advocacy, public awareness and support.
Local officials of federal agencies work to improve federal programs and develop relationships between local governments and the public.
Plans for the systematic delivery of services for persons age 60 years and older, their caregivers and grandparent raising grandchildren in the seven county service region in Illinois and contracts with providers of appropriate services.
Plans, administers, promotes and sponsors programs which help to renew the physical and moral structure in area bounded by Jefferson-Sarah-Olive & Natural Bridge.
Plans for the systematic delivery of services for persons age 60 years and older and their family caregivers.
Functions as an agency of the state to advocate for public policies, regulations, and programs to improve the quality of existing services for individuals with hearing loss, and to promote new services when necessary.
Plans for the systematic delivery of services for persons age 60 years and older, their caregivers and grandparents raising grandchildren.
Responsible for setting policies, taking positions on issues, preparing annual budgets and raising funds, and deciding which projects the association will support.
Homeless Services: Administers and coordinates under contract with several agencies, programs, shelters and services for the homeless in the City of St. Louis.
Addressing issues crossing jurisdictional boundaries, develops and adopts plans for the region's surface transportation system, environment, government and Workforce Development.
An umbrella organization, composed of representatives of organizations, service agencies and churches united to better serve the deaf/hard of hearing community through awareness, education, advocacy and community involvement.