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Iowa Resources

Family Issues
Center for Family & Children’s Services in Iowa Ralph Rosenberg, Executive Director 1111 9th Street Des Moines, IA 50317 Telephone: 515-244-0074 Fax: 515-244-0075	The Center for Family & Childrenís Services in Iowa represents 34 private and county agencies that annually serve over 100,000 at-risk children and families. Member agencies work in the areas of child abuse and neglect, delinquency, substance abuse, and behavioral and mental health. Our agencies provide a continuum of services including: crisis intervention; family preservation; family-centered services; foster family care; emergency shelters; delinquency prevention; detention; maternal and child health care; day care; psychiatric medical institutions; day treatment; independent living; nutrition; teen parenting; and special needs adoptions.
Coalition for Family and Children’s Services in Iowa Human Services Campus 1111 9th Street, Suite 200 Des Moines, IA 50314 Telephone: 515-244-0074 Fax: 515-244-0075 E-mail: hn3957@earthlink.net www.iachild.org	The Coalition for Family and Childrenís Services in Iowa represents 34 private and county agencies that provide a wide variety of services to children and families. Seeks to improve services for children and families and impact public policy through combined resources.
Fatherhood Initiative Dan Houlahan Administration for Children and Families Department of Health and Human Services 601 East 12th Street, Rm 276 Kansas City, MO 64106 Telephone: 816-426-3981 x195 Fax: 816-426-2888 http://fatherhood.hhs.gov/fi-regions.htm	The federal HHS department and its regional offices work to coordinate fatherhood activities throughout the states and have sponsored a variety of forums to bring together local public and private organizations and individuals to support fathers' involvement in their families and communities.
Iowa Citizen Action Network 3520 Beaver, Suite E Des Moines, IA 50310-3290 Telephone: 515-471-8000 Fax: 515-471-8017 E-mail: jstuder@nea.org www.nea.com	NEA is committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA is a volunteer-based organization supported by a network of staff at the local, state, and national level. At the local level, NEA affiliates are active in a wide variety of activities, everything from conducting professional workshops on discipline and other issues that affect faculty and school support staff to bargaining contracts for school district employees. At the state level, NEA affiliate activities are equally wide-ranging. NEA state affiliates, for instance, regularly lobby legislators for the resources schools need, campaign for higher professional standards for the teaching profession, and file legal actions to protect academic freedom.
Senior Issues
Iowa Department of Elder Affairs Clemens Building 200-10th Street, 3rd Floor Des Moines, IA 50309-3609 Telephone: 515-242-3333 Fax: 515-242-3300 The Long Term Care Complaint Hotline: 1-800-532-3213 http://www.state.ia.us/elderaffairs/	The Iowa Department of Elder Affairs offers a list of area agencies, nutrition, employment and care programs and legal assistance.
Lifelink 331 South York Road Bensenville, IL 60106 Telephone: 630-521-8046 Fax: 630-860-5130	Lifelink is a 106-year-old not-for-profit, charitable health and human service organization related to the United Church of Christ. Based in Bensenville, Illinois, Lifelink provides a range of services to children, families and the aging throughout Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Missouri and Wisconsin. Lifelink manages nursing homes and retirement communities, and helps link families with counseling, foster care, adoption and Head Start services.
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