Support Resources

Heartland Healing Center
We are Tate, Ben, and Maddox, students from Ankeny Centennial in Ankeny, Iowa, and we’re passionate about supporting our peers’ mental health. We’ve noticed a growing issue among our fellow students: the struggle with mental health. Wanting to make a difference, we set out to create a resource guide to help those who may be struggling silently. Our goal is to share a list of valuable resources that many people might not even realize are available to them.

Cyberbullying Resources
When adults respond quickly and consistently to bullying behavior they send the message that it is not acceptable. Research shows this can stop bullying behavior over time.

Lifeworks
Our services are provided in a supportive and non-judgmental environment, honoring individual differences in the clients we serve. We provide personal, comprehensive therapy and psychiatry services to promote whole health for your entire family. In addition, we offer a client-driven, client-centered approach that personalizes your services to meet your individual needs.

Mercy Behavioral Health
Mercy Behavioral Health provides inpatient and outpatient treatment options for children and adolescents. Our skilled staff will work with you to determine the most effective treatment option.

Orchard Place
Orchard Place is a private, not-for-profit agency located in Des Moines that provides mental health and juvenile justice services to more than 5,000 children ages 0-22 each year. Their mission is to heal children’s hearts and minds in effort to help them develop strong, promising futures.

Student Assistance Program / EFR
The Student Assistance Program of Employee and Family Resources offers students, parents and school personnel assistance to help them work through a wide range of concerns such as alcohol and other drug use, family or relationship problems, emotional or behavioral problems, court-related incidents or truancy, other problems that interfere with daily living.

Ellipsis Iowa
Ellipsis is central Iowa’s critical safety net for kids and families in need. By providing the care, encouragement and skills development needed for a lifetime of success, we’re breaking down barriers, rewriting stories and empowering families to thrive together.

Parent Center Hub
If you have recently learned that your child has a developmental delay or a disability (which may or may not be completely defined), this message may be for you.

Child Support Services
This program helps people with answers to questions about child support and child support recovery.

Child Care Resource and Referral
Providing resources, education and advocacy, CCR&R helps meet your community’s need for affordable and accessible child care. CCR&R provides a wide variety of services for Parents, Child Care Providers, Employers, and Community Groups. We provide guidance by phone, in person, on the Internet and in other ways that are tailored to you rather than a one-size-fits-all solution.

Child Care Assistance
Child Care Assistance (CCA) is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are gone for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities.  Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment.

Heartland Area Education Agency
Heartland Area Education Agency works in partnership with public and accredited private schools to provide educational services, programs and resources for improving student achievement. Heartland AEA staff members serve preschool children, K-12 students, families, educators and sometimes entire communities.

Hamilton’s Academy of Grief and Loss
Provides grief information and resources, grief recovery, and grief related education.

Hawki
Hawki is a program that provides health care coverage for Iowa children in families with limited incomes.

Woman, Infants, and Children Program (WIC)
WIC is a public health program that serves pregnant and postpartum women, and children under the age of 5. WIC provides nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to other health-care agencies. Eligibility is based on income, Iowa residence, and a medical or dietary need. WIC is not a welfare program. Many working families participate. Participants receive checks for specific nutritious foods redeemable at over 700 grocery stores and pharmacies across Iowa.

Primary Health Care is a nonprofit community health care center dedicated to serving the medically insured, uninsured or underinsured with their health care needs. We strive to find and successfully treat medical conditions before they become serious enough to require hospitalization or emergency treatment. We also provide follow-up, continuity of care, pharmacy assistance, and supportive services to help patients in need. Through case management and social work advocacy, we work to assure that our clients have greater access to resources in the community.

Every Step Care and Support Services
One of Iowa’s oldest nonprofits, EveryStep has provided health care and community services since 1908. Our team of experts are driven by a single purpose — to care for people and connect them with support at every step of their journey. Each year, we help thousands of Iowans cope in times of crisis and move forward with stability, dignity, and hope.

YSS-Homeless Youth Centers
IHYC offers a variety of programs and facilities that will teach homeless youth to live independently and become self-sufficient. The youth we serve are non-system involved, meaning that they are not placed or directly supported by a governmental payment agency. IHYC is often a last resort for older runaway and homeless youth who have exhausted community resources, family and friends.

HOME, Inc. believes that everyone willing and able to accept the responsibilities of home ownership should be able to purchase a home. Our home ownership opportunities can make it happen. HOME, Inc. combines home ownership counseling and supportive services with property development and financing to assist low-income people in becoming homeowners.

Children & Families of Iowa-Domestic Violence Services
CFI provides emergency safe shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. Clients who are in immediate danger and who have on-going safety concerns are provided emergency shelter. Individual and group counseling, including children’s groups, are available for residents. Clients are referred to community resources such as legal aid, law enforcement, housing, job, development and social services. Court advocacy is also available for shelter residents. The shelter is staffed 24-hours a day by Certified Domestic Abuse Advocates.

Cornerstone Recovery
Children and Families of Iowa – A variety of family-centered social service programs including Cornerstone Recovery (treatment center for chemically involved youth), Family Violence Shelter, Domestic Abuse Intervention Services, Foster Care, plus many more.

UnityPoint Addiction Services
You or a loved one are ready to rebuild. Ready to move on from the uncertainty and pain that can be created by substance use disorders. Know that it is possible to live a life of recovery. Our experienced multi-disciplinary substance use disorder teams are here for you. We join individuals at every step to support their pursuit of recovery and well-being.