What resources are available to Des Moines people facing homelessness? - Des Moines Register

Curious astir what lodging and structure services are disposable successful Polk County? Below is simply a database of organizations and communal assistance groups successful the region that enactment families and individuals experiencing lodging instability oregon homelessness. This catalog of resources is not comprehensive, and galore of the organizations featured were provided by Homeward, a homelessness readying bureau based successful Des Moines.

What exigency shelters are successful Polk County?

• Catholic Charities — Emergency structure for families.  
• Central Iowa Shelter & Services — Low-barrier exigency structure for individuals implicit 18 successful Polk County.
• Children and Families of Iowa — Safe structure for individuals and families fleeing home violence.
• Ellipsis — Shelter and programs for younker nether 18 who are progressive with the kid payment oregon juvenile justness system.
• Family Promise of Greater Des Moines — Emergency structure for families with children.
• Hawthorn Hill — Operates New Directions structure for families with children.
• Hope Ministries — Provides a men’s structure called Bethel Mission and the Hope Center structure for women and children.
• Iowa Homeless Youth Center — Emergency structure beds for young radical betwixt the ages of 18 to 24.

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Housing and supportive services programs for radical experiencing homelessness successful Polk County

• Anawim Housing — Manages imperishable supportive lodging for radical who person experienced homelessness and unrecorded with a intelligence illness, substance usage disorder, carnal disability, HIV/AIDS oregon are fleeing home violence.
• Children and Families of Iowa — Provides services related to home unit prevention and intervention, household support, aboriginal puerility development, intelligence wellness and substance abuse.
• Iowa Homeless Youth Centers — Offers contiguous endurance needs for young people, including nutrient and shelter, arsenic good arsenic lawsuit absorption for younker and young mothers to go self-sufficient.
• Joppa — A Christian enactment that provides food, h2o and different essentials to radical who are unsheltered.
• Primary Health Care — A federally qualified wellness halfway that is an introduction constituent for radical facing homelessness.
• West Des Moines Human Services — Offers exigency assistance for rent and utilities, handyman services, younker recreational assistance, covering and nutrient assistance for low-income residents, the aged and radical who are disabled.
• YMCA Supportive Housing — Helps radical experiencing oregon at-risk of experiencing homelessness determination into unchangeable and unafraid imperishable lodging supplemented by supportive services.

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Housing and homelessness prevention resources successful Polk County

• The Beacon — A residential location for women successful crisis.
• Des Moines Municipal Housing Agency — Administers the Section 8 lodging voucher program.
• Home, Inc. — Provides exigency rental assistance and lodging counseling.
• IMPACT — Administers rent and inferior assistance done the Emergency Rental Assistance Program. This programme volition nary longer instrumentality applications aft Nov. 27, 2022.
• Iowa Legal Aid — Legal services for low-income Iowans.
• The Home Connection — Supportive lodging successful Iowa for stateless families with children.
• Polk County General Assistance — Temporary assistance to low-income Polk County residents.
• Veteran Affairs — Provides assistance to Polk County veterans and their families.
• Des Moines Homeless Veterans Stand Down — Services ranging from employment assistance to payment claims and structure for veterans and their families facing homelessness

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Des Moines-based communal assistance organizations

• Des Moines Black Liberation Movement Foundation — Offers rental and inferior assistance with Des Moines Mutual Aid based connected community-funded donations.
• Des Moines Mutual Aid — Runs a winter endurance fundraiser and collection drive to supply those facing homelessness with indispensable cogwheel specified arsenic propane tanks, manus warmers, tarps, sleeping bags, etc.
• The Supply Hive — Stocks "a proviso library" astatine 13th Street and College Avenue play with Black hairsbreadth attraction products and different indispensable items.
• Community fridges — There are much than a twelve assemblage fridges successful the Des Moines metro wherever individuals tin find escaped caller fruits and vegetables on with sealed nutrient items specified arsenic deli meat, milk, eggs and yogurt. Some fridges tin beryllium accessed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, portion others are constricted to the organizations oregon businesses that run them. Find a implicit database of assemblage fridges successful Polk, Dallas and Warren counties here.

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What are immoderate different lodging programs oregon resources that we should enactment connected the list? Send a connection to metropolis authorities newsman Virginia Barreda astatine vbarreda@dmreg.com and societal justness newsman F. Amanda Tugade astatine ftugade@dmreg.com.