Community Resources

WE LEVERAGE RESOURCES TO CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITY

Each of our agencies and parent organization strive to extend resources throughout every area within the state.  Further, we've added several links below that may be of additional assistance.

Iowa Community Action Association Member Agency Websites:

• 1. New Opportunities, Inc.
  Website: http://www.newopp.org
  Counties served: Sac, Calhoun, Carroll, Greene, Audubon, Guthrie, and Dallas
• 2. Hawkeye Area Community Action Program
  Website: http://www.hacap.org
  Counties served: Benton, Linn, Jones, Iowa, Johnson, and Washington
• 3. Community Action of Eastern Iowa.
  Website: http://www.iacommunityaction.org/
  Counties served: Cedar, Clinton, Muscatine, and Scott
• 4. MATURA Action Corp.
  Website: http://www.wia14.org/union/union_matura.html
  Counties served: Adair, Madison, Adams, Union, Taylor, and Ringgold
• 5. Mid-Iowa Community Action
  Website: http://www.micaonline.org 
  Counties served: Hardin, Story, Marshall, Tama, and Poweshiek
• 6. Mid-Sioux Opportunity
  Website: http://www.midsioux.org/
  Counties served: Lyon, Sioux, Plymouth, Cherokee, and Ida
• 7. City of Des Moines Community Development Department
  Website: http://www.dmgov.org/Departments/CommunityDevelopment/Pages/Assistance.aspx
  Counties Served: City of Des Moines Only
• 8. North Iowa Community Action Organization
  Website: http://www.nicao-online.org
  Counties served: Kossuth, Winnebago, Worth, Mitchell, Hancock, Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Franklin, and Butter
• 9. Northeast Iowa Community Action Corp.
  Website: http://www.neicac.org
  Counties served: Howard, Chickasaw, Bremer, Winneshiek, Fayette, Allamakee, and Clayton
• 10. Operation: New View Community Action Agency
  Website: http://www.operationnewview.org
  Counties served: Delaware, Dubuque, and Jackson
• 11. Operation Threshold
  Website: www.operationthreshold.org
  Counties served: Grundy, Black Hawk, and Buchanan
• 12. Red Rock Area Community Action Program
  Website:

http://www.iowacommunityaction.org/Agency/Index_RRACAP.cfm

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  Counties served: Boone, Polk, Jasper, Warren, and Marion
• 13. South Central Iowa Community Action Program
  Website: http://www.scicap.org
  Counties served: Clarke, Lucas, Monroe, Decatur, and Wayne
• 14. Community Action of Southeast Iowa
  Website: http://www.caofseia.org
  Counties served: Louisa, Henry, Des Moines, and Lee
• 15. Southern Iowa Economic Development Assoc.
  Website: http://www.sieda.org
  Counties served: Mahaska, Keokuk, Wapello, Jefferson, Appanoose, Davis, and Van Buren
• 16. Upper Des Moines Opportunity, Inc.
  Website: http://www.udmo.com
  Counties served: Osceola, Dickinson, Emmet, O'Brien, Clay, Palo Alto, Buena Vista, Pocahontas Humboldt, Wright, Webster, and Hamilton
• 17. West Central Community Action
  Website: http://www.westcentralca.org
  Counties served: Monona, Crawford, Harrison, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont, and Page
• 18. Community Action Agency of Siouxland
  Website: Http://www.caasiouxland.org
  Counties served: Woodbury

Iowa Links:

• Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division on Community Action Agencies:
  http://www.state.ia.us/government/dhr/caa/
• It's About Our Kids: http://itsaboutourkids.org

National Community Action Links:

• Recovery.gov:  http://www.recovery.gov
• CAPLAW: http://www.caplaw.org/
• Community Action Partnership: http://www.communityactionpartnership.com/
• National Association for State Community Service Programs: http://www.nascsp.org/default.htm
• National Energy Assistance Directors' Assocation (NEADA): http://www.neada.org/
• Results Oriented Management & Accountability (ROMA): http://www.roma1.org/

Research & Additional Links (Poverty, Healh Care, etc.):

• War on Poverty:  http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/poverty/index.html
• GovBenefits.gov: http://www.GovBenefits.gov
• Children & Family Policy Center: www.cfpciowa.org
• Institute for Research on Poverty: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
• Iowa Department of Public Health: http://www.idph.state.ia.us/default.asp
• Iowa Finance Authority: http://www.ifahome.com/
• Iowa Legal Aid: www.iowalegalaid.org
• Medicare Rights Center: www.medicarerights.org
• Minnesota Community Action Associaton: http://www.mncaa.org/
• National Center for Children in Poverty: http://www.nccp.org/
• Northwest Area Foundation: http://www.indicators.nwaf.org/
• It's About Our Kids: http://itsaboutourkids.org
• Iowa Head Start: http://www.iowaheadstart.com/