Removing Childcare As A Barrier to Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency Through Gap Scholarships
This program works to remove the barrier of accessing affordable, quality child care to obtain/maintain work or training and decrease the work force gap while increasing women’s economic security for female-head of households based on poverty guidelines under 200%.
Refugee Child Care Training and Expansion
LSI helps refugee women to increase their families’ financial stability by becoming registered in-home child care providers through the Iowa DHS.
Teaching, Mentoring and Equipping St. Mark Families for Success
The overall goal of this project is to teach single mothers and girls social emotional skills, surround them with trusting mentors to practice and hone those skills, and equip them with tools needed to effectively implement what they learn.
Step Up for Success
Step Up for Success will assist teen parents by providing needed supportive services, assistance in paying for one to two months of childcare until their state application is approved, and gas vouchers in times of need.
Refugee Child Care Business Development Program
LSI helps refugee women to increase their families’ financial stability by becoming registered in-home child care providers through the Iowa DHS.
Heart of Iowa Childcare Services Expansion
The Heart of Iowa (HOI) program is designed for women with substance use disorder who maintain custody of their children while receiving residential treatment services.
Social Emotional Learning: Breaking Down Barriers to Success
St. Mark Youth Enrichment offers programs before/after school and in the summer for at-risk students pre-K through 5th grade.
Marita Theisen Child Care Center – BCCCSF
The Marita Theisen Child Care Center at Steeple Square was established in response to urgent calls from the community for affordable quality child care. The Center currently has enrolled more than 40 children, 70% of whom are from low-income families.
Removing Child Care as a Barrier to Women’s Economic Self-Sufficiency – Core Grant
This child care program will assure availability of up to 20 full-time, year-round slots for infant or preschool children of single mothers who are seeking work, working, or in training; and whose incomes are under 200% of household poverty levels
Sliding Fee Scale for Professional Development Day Services – BCCCSF Grant
LINK Grinnell is a newly established after-school program serving children in kindergarten through 7th grade in the Grinnell area since late 2019, created in response to a gap of 437 spaces for after-school care in the community.
