All of our caring professionals are community and family focused. Flexible community services are driven to provide families, students, children, and individuals support through positive encouragement. Although locations are specified, these services are NOT limited to those specific locations. In 2010, we served people in over 65 counties in Iowa.
Flexible Community Services include:
Family Team Meetings- support to identify what the family hopes to accomplish, assists the family with setting goals and time frames, assess strengths and needs to help accomplish these goals, and matches services in the community to help the family achieve the goals.
Location: All sites
Foster Care and Adoption services- Services include recruiting, training, licensing and the support of Iowa's foster and adoptive parents through Iowa Kids Net.
Locations: Newton, Marshalltown, Waterloo
Dream Team- is a youth-driven and focused meeting for foster and adopted youth, ages 16 and older. The meeting is designed to assist transitioning youth have healthy and meaningful lifelong connections within their community and to help them meet their goals for self-sufficiency.
Location: Marshalltown, New Providence, Waterloo
Behavioral Health Intervention services - assist individuals in learning appropriate ways to manage behavior and regain self-control. Services educate and support parents in coping with their child's mental illness.
Location: All sites
Child Welfare Emergency Services (CWES) - an array of short term temporary activities that are provided to assist in managing crisis.
Location: All sites
School-Based services - are services and supports, strategies and initiatives to address student needs.
Location: All sites
Sibshops - are best described as opportunities for brothers and sisters of children with special health and developmental needs to obtain peer support and education within a recreational context. They are lively celebrations that acknowledges being the sibling of a person with special needs is for some a good thing, others a not-so good thing, and for many somewhere in between. The Sibshop model intersperses information and discussion activities with new games (designed to be unique, off-beat, and appealing to a wide ability range) and special guests who provide the support to deal with the challenges, and recognize the rewards, of having a sibling with special needs.
Location: Waterloo
Independent Learning Center: Quakerdale of Manning teamed up with the Denison Community Schools to set up the Independent Learning Center (ILC). Students are sent here from the High School and the Middle School. While students are here we work with them individually and in group sessions on some of their behavioral problems. The students keep up with their schoolwork using an online program called E2020. The Middle School students come to the ILC for 45 days and have goals they need to meet. The High School students come to the ILC for the remainder of the semester they are sent here and also have goals they are working towards.
Location: Denison
Last updated: 06/03/2011