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
Workforce Managers – Core Grant
Heartland will continue its comprehensive, wraparound service support for women in the Iowa Family Works program to obtain and maintain gainful employment that can support themselves and their families.
Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network – CORE Grant
The Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network links unemployed or underemployed Iowa women with opportunities to prepare for and enroll in Iowa Registered Apprentice programs in construction trades.
Iowa Women in Trades: Apprenticeship Opportunity Network
The Iowa Women in Trades Network (IWIT) links unemployed or underemployed Iowa women with opportunities to prepare for and enroll in registered apprentice programs in construction trades. The ultimate goal of this project is to build a pipeline to high-quality construction jobs for Iowa women.
Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers
Through Harvesting Our Potential: Training Women Farmers, this program connects women who aspire to farm with a successful woman farmer as a mentor for critical on-farm experience, networking events, and business training, so they will be successful farmers.
Women Caring for the Land: Nurturing New Careers in Ecological Restoration
The Women, Food and Agricultural Network will pioneer a new business opportunity for young Iowa women in the field of ecological restoration.
Financial Literacy & Economic Stability
The Financial Literacy & Economic Stability Program will provide graduates of Angel House with financial knowledge and resources to utilize once they leave the house to live on their own.
Women Empowering Women
Women Empowering Women will pair professional women with women preparing to rejoin the community following involvement in local or state correctional systems.
Next Step – Women’s Job Readiness Program
ACCESS will offer Next Step, an employment readiness program to provide financial literacy education and support to survivors of domestic violence in Ames and surrounding communities.
Survivors’ Economic Self-Sufficiency
The Survivors’ Economic Self-Sufficiency Project will assist survivors of trauma with the skills and resources necessary to regain economic self-sufficiency.
