Disclaimer: This information was provided by agencies in the community. It may not be all-encompassing and some information changes often. For Poweshiek County offices and contact information, browse our county directory.
Updates: If you have an addition or edit to our Resource Guide, please contact us at Brooke.Holder@unitypoint.org.
Bear Creek Kids Campus
Brooklyn, IA 52211
Child Care Assistance IHHS
Child Care Assistance (CCA) is available to the children of income-eligible parents who are gone for a portion of the day due to employment or participation in academic or vocational training or PROMISE JOBS activities. Assistance may also be available for a limited period of time to the children of a parent looking for employment.
Child Care Collaborative
Child Care Collaborative of Iowa: Our mission is to guide child care programs to improve financial practices and optimize resources that benefit children, families, and their business.
Remsen, IA 50150
Child Care Connect - Iowa
The Child Care Search Tool displays childcare providers with vacancies by geography or along a designated driving route. With this tool, Iowan’s can conveniently identify childcare providers near or between home and office.
This tool also offers essential information including IQ4K ratings, age filters, hours of operation, and subsidy acceptance.
For the best experience, please use a home computer or tablet to view the data within this tool.
Childcare Resource & Referral of Central Iowa (CCR&R)
- Connects families with quality early care and education options and facilitates professional development opportunities for the adults who care for and educate our youngest Iowans. Nurse consultants are available for daycares.
- Free Childcare Referrals/Parent Referral Hotline: 855-244-5301 or childcare@episervice.org or Looking for childcare?
- Community Development Specialist: 515-401-4957
- Provides consultation and training for childcare staff through our Child Care Consultant for that area.
- Childcare consultant: 641-820-1923.
- Child Care Assistance- https://hhs.iowa.gov/programs/programs-and-services/child-care/CCA
- Employer: https://iowaccrr.org/employers/
- Communities: https://iowaccrr.org/communities/
Local Contact:
- Leah Bauman, Child Care Consultant Jasper, Marion, and Poweshiek Counties
- Child Care Resource & Referral of Central Iowa, Child Guidance Center Orchard Place
Des Moines, IA 50309
Grinnell Community Early Learning Center
Grinnell, IA 50112
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA)
Mid-Iowa Community Action (MICA) helps individuals and families meet basic needs, build stability, and work toward self-sufficiency. Services include food assistance, WIC, energy assistance, Head Start and Early Head Start, family support, maternal and child health services, dental programs, health insurance assistance, and home weatherization.
Grinnell, IA 50112
My Body, My Rules CAP (Children Assault Prevention)
Greater Des Moines Child Assault Prevention (CAP) Program
The CAP program is a personal safety education program for schools. It uses a three-pronged approach to prevent child assault and maltreatment by presenting workshops for school staff, parents, and elementary school children. The program approaches prevention from a perspective of human dignity, mutual respect, and basic human rights. Everyone has the right to be safe, strong, and free.
If you represent an elementary school in the greater Des Moines metro area and are interested in having the CAP Program visit your school, Contact Janelle Ballhagen at 515-241-6703 or janelle.ballhagen@unitypoint.org.
Children's Workshop: This empowering approach to prevention explains that when another person tries to take away our rights to be safe, strong, and free - there are problems. Through interactive role-play, we demonstrate what the problems might look like.
The role plays include situations such as:
- Bullying (peer to peer assault)
- Abduction (assault by a stranger)
- Sexual Abuse (assault by a known person)
The role plays are each done two times. In the first role-play, the situation is not resolved. Important safety skills are introduced or reviewed for each situation. In the second role play, the situation is resolved successfully.
There is one final role play starring the classroom teacher. This role play shows what it might be like to talk about a problem with a trusted adult. After the children's workshop is review time in which kids can talk with a facilitator one-on-one. Review time participation is a choice made by the kids. It is always offered, but they don't have to do it.
Staff education and parent education are approximately one-hour sessions done at the school before the children's workshop. The children's workshop takes place in the classroom and is done by a team of three trained facilitators. The children's workshop is approximately 50-60 minutes in the classroom and about 30 minutes of review time after the classroom presentations.
Safety Concepts Presented
Definition of basic human rights:
- Turning to a peer for support
- Safe or trusted adults
- Definition of a stranger
- Self-protection skills (kicking, yelling, elbowing)
- Telling vs. tattling
- When assault happens, it is important to tell a safe adult and keep telling until someone listens
- Tricks used by unsafe adults or peers
- When assault happens to a child it is NEVER the child's fault
- It is OK to say no to a grown-up or peer when they make us feel uncomfortable
Des Moines , IA
Zuma Zoo Daycare Center
Montezuma, IA 50171
