A comprehensive approach to addressing substance use disorder and risky behaviors among youth by providing evidence-based programming to youth and their caring adults.
Our Meal and Healthy Habits program reduces food insecurity by providing nutritious meals and promoting healthy routines for youth and families in Dubuque.
Catholic Charities provides access to affordable and professional Brain Health Counseling services for individuals, couples, children and families who are having difficulty coping with daily struggles. The services are available to anyone in need, regardless of faith, background, or inability to pay. No one is ever turned away for inability to pay.
Convivium provides healthy food support to community members in need in two complementary ways: through our Free Community Casserole program and our Good & Cheap cooking classes. Together, these efforts form a dual strategy - meeting inmmediate needs while building long-term capacity.
Funded Program: Healthy Food Support
The Health Optimization program connects frequently vulnerable, low-income community members from the tri-states area with comprehensive, high-quality healthcare servcies and a Community Health Worker who establishes trusth, idenrifies health needs, assists in overcoming barriers (e.g., transportation, language, etc.), provides connection to financial and other resources, and addresses obstacles to ensure community memembers can achieve optimal health and wellness goals.
Through volunteer efforts DALH provides food security to the elderly, disabled, unemployed, and underemployed citizens of the Dubuque Area.
Mindful Minutes for Schools, in partnership with Challenge to Change, Andrew Schoolk, Southwesten School, and Dubuque Community School District is dedicated to supporting elementary studetns' physical and emotional well-being through accessible, developentally appropriate yoga and mindfulness practices.
Street to Feet stops the cycle of homelessness, poverty, brain health, and addiction through recovery support and permanent housing one step at a time.
The presence of Period Poverty within our communities is undeniable, and once we recognized it, turning a blind eye became impossible. The Red Basket Project takes on the mission of tackling Period Poverty in Our Community.
Rides for Wellness creates an opportunity for community collaboration, elimination transportaion barriers for individuals and familes who cannot afford the normal fare for rides to their wellness activities, by providing a no cost ride voucher.
Friends of the Family provides safe shelter and rapid rehousing services to victims of violent crime, including victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking and other violent crime.
Through the generosity of the United Way of the Dubuque Area Tri-States, Riverview Center has a sexual assault therapist providing free therapy services for Allamakee, Clayton and Fayette Counties, using research-based modalities studied specifically for their effectiveness for sexual abuse survivors to address the root causes of a multitude of negative outcomes from this traumatic crime, including help with negative coping behaviors to support their long-term health, wellness, & safety.
VNA's Car Seat Safety & Family Support Program will improve health and well-being for children and families by providing free car seats, hands-on safety education, and personalized resource navigation to help families stay safe, access essential services, and move toward long-term financial stability and healthy futures.
Rosecrance program 'Behavioral Health Service Access in Jo Daviess County’ will provide accessible, comprehensive, person-centered, culturally competent behavioral health assessment, treatment planning, therapy, case management, and skills teaching for individuals residing in Jo Daviess County.
NAMI Dubuque is a nonprofit organization focusing on the model fo peer-provided healthcare. Our community minded approach to brain health offers no-cost mental health services for support, education, wraparound support services, co-occurring recovery, wellness planning, crisis planning, lived-experience specific workgroups, advocacy, and suicide prevention for peers, their families, and our community.
The TechWORKS program offers high school students an opportunity to establish a solid foundation in careers related to advanced manufacturing, construction, auto/diesel mechanics or engineering.
Pathways to Graduation meets students where they are, removes barriers to learning after school, and helps them earn the credits they need to graduate on time and move towar better jobs, higher wages, and long-term stability.
Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates (iJAG) provides daily mentoring to Dubuque youth to support academic success and build the workforce skills in demand in the local labor market.
St. Mark Youth Enrichment advances United Way's prority area of youth opportunity through early childhood, after school, and summer programs that help children build the soical emotional skills, confidence, adn academic readiness needed to succeed in school and life.
Seva Health Center for Well-being is a nonprofit organization that provides an integrative approach to supporting brain (mental) health through a varity of services.
Through its vast network of volunteers, donors, and partners, the Red Cross transforms compassion into action, ensuring help is available whenever it's needed. The Red Cross assists individuals and familes affected by disasters, patients requiring blood transfusions, military personnel and their loved ones, and communities seeksing preparedness education. its reach spans vulnerable populations impacted by natuaral disaster, home fires, health crises, adn those facing unique challenges tied to military service.
CSEI provides housing stabilization programs to individuals and familes, coordinates inter-agency efforts to assist those living unhoused, provides housing financial and case management assistance, adn offers supportive services to ensure memebers of our community are able to achieve and maintain their most fundamental needs.
The Dubuque Community Y Crisis Services Shelter provides 24/7 emergency and extended stay services that empower and advocate for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and sex trafficking, offering safety, support, and resources while workign to build an educated, engaged community committed to ensuring every individual's right to live free from violence.
Partners In Change (PIC) provides holistic, peer-driven support that helps individuals impacted by justice involvement, substance use, and poverty achieve stability, recovery, and long-term self-sufficiency.
HACAP’s Regional Housing program addresses the need for homeless households in the community to obtain and maintain permanent housing by collaborating with community social service providers, local landlords, and other local partners.
Iowa Legal Aid provides free legal services to promote financial independence and stable families by helping low-income people have stable income, safe and sustainable housing and the ability to gain complete autonomy from abusive domestic partners.
Northeast Iowa Community Action Corporation's (NEICAC) Crisis Assistance Program assists individuals and families with limited income through direct payments made to vendors to meet needs that impact household stability, addressing important financial stability needs.
The Workshop in Galena, Illinois empowers adults with disabilities through paid employment, meaningful social connections, and skill-building programs that strengthen daily living abilities, adaptive behavior, and independent living.
Opening Doors provides trauma-informed case management and housing support that helps women move out of crisis, assistance in reducing barriers, and build healthier, more stable lives for themselves and their familes.
The Lantern Center empowers adult immigrants and their families in the Dubuque area through free English tutorting, citizenship test preparation, financial literacy education and individualized guidance to buiild stability, confidence, and opportunity.
The Food Pantry program provides families experiencing financial hardship with dignified access to nutritious food while serving as a gateway to Pathway of Hope case management, rent and utilitiy assistance, and other supportive services that promote stability and long-term self sufficiency.
2-1-1 provides a 24/7 multilingual hotline for referrals and resources within Delaware, Dubuque, and Jackson counties. Referrals are done by trained and certified Information and Referral Specialists.
Sprout Into Reading is run by Women United, an affinity group of United Way of Dubuque Area Tri-States. They target low-income youth ages birth to five and focus on the direct distribution of books to these children through strategic partnerships.