Funded Community Partners
 
American Red Cross: 712-252-4081
Provides disaster family assistance; instruction in first aid/CPR, lifeguarding, and learn-to-swim programs; international and military social services; HIV awareness programs; and youth health and safety educational programs.
An advocate for all ages of mentally disabled individuals. Provides community-based programs to enhance social skills and other functional competencies.
 
Arranges and monitors volunteer relationships between prescreened adults and children. The volunteers serve as role models for children who come from single parent families or two-parent families experiencing stress.
 
Helps individuals and families resolve personal issues in their lives and provides family and individual counseling.
 
Offers a youth development program for boys (ages 7-18) which helps them develop a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging, and influence.
 
Serves boys in 1st through 12th grades and girls in 9th through 12th grades. Scouting strives to instill in young people the values that are essential to our system of free enterprise: self-reliance, integrity, courage, and thriftiness.
 
Offers family, individual, and group therapy to help families and children resolve emotional and/or family problems. Catholic Charities provides maternity services for single birth parents, including option counseling, after-care, and adoption services.
 
Provides community assistance to meet basic needs (food, clothing, and prescription assistance). Senior volunteer programs, money management assistance, and transitional housing for the homeless are also available.  
 
Provides shelter and crisis intervention to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault and their children, and offers 24-hour hotline, counseling, education, and advocacy.
 
Offers emergency shelter for children, education and counseling for at-risk child abuse families, maternity services for low-income women, adoption services, emergency foster care, day care services, and delinquency prevention.
 
Focuses on the special needs of girls by providing a positive and stimulating environment in which girls can become aware of the opportunities in life and develop the capacity to be self-sufficient members of the community.
 
Committed to helping all girls (ages 5-17) from every background to develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world.
 
Provides a Teen Parenting Program in area high schools. This program teaches young parents what it's like to be a parent, and how to prepare for and succeed in their new role. Discussions also focus on overcoming the obstacles to being a young parent and focuses on maintaining an education.
 
Mary Elizabeth Day Care Center: 712-258-1605
Provides quality, affordable child care for low-income working parents. Includes preschool, before- and after-school care, and summer programs. A sliding fee scale is available based on the parents' income.
 
Empowers individuals through free English, preschool and citizenship classes; low-cost immigration services; and a summer program for at-risk youth that is designed to close the achievement gap and stop summer learning loss.
 
Native American Child Care Center: 712-276-4030
Provides child care services and an early childhood development program, including preschool readiness, self-image development, parental involvement and cultural awareness to preschool children and their families.
Offers a broad range of educational and recreational activities for youth, adults, and families. The services enhance physical fitness, and build a healthy body, mind, and spirit.
 
A networking agency providing disaster assistance, pantry, clothing, and housing assistance as well as educational, spiritual, and recreational programs for all ages.
 
A neighborhood center providing recreational activities, employment services, and individual and group services.
 
Community Coalition whose mission is to improve the quality of life in Siouxland by eliminating the abuse of alcohol and other drugs and related violence. Services include referrals, information, assessment information, educational programs, awareness campaigns, youth leadership, drug-free workplace information and gang prevention programs.
 
Offers a broad range of recreational, educational, physical health, and financial services. Counseling and referral services are also offered.
 
Siouxland Family Community Center: 402-494-6878
A neighborhood center in South Sioux City that offers emergency services for low-income families and provides youth with recreational and educational programs.
 
A resource center providing counseling, advocacy, education, information, referral and support services to women. There is a special focus on serving the needs of displaced homemakers and single parents.