Resources

Businesses

• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• One Cedar Valley (overcoming barriers to employment)
• 24/7 Blac (supporting Black professionals)

Education

• Resourcing students and families
  • Selecting books for adolescents
  • Psychological Research: Raising Antiracist Children
  • DEI in the classroom
  • Healthy communication about race with children
  • Equity in the classroom

Health

• Disability rights
  • Americans with Disabilities Act
  • How to create health equity
• Neurodiversity
  • Resources for parents and guardians
• Mental health
  • Mental health and addiction treatment services:
    • Pathways Behavioral Services
    • Residential child services: Lutheran Services in Iowa (LSI) - Bremwood
• Trauma
  • Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACES)
  • How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime
• Suicide Prevention
  • 988 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
  • Iowa Concern (stress counseling, and legal, financial and disaster-related resources)
• STI and HIV testing

Immigration information

• Immigrant and refugee community services: Lutheran Services in Iowa (LSI)
• Iowa immigration legal resources
• Victims of Human Trafficking and Other Crimes

Inclusive communication

• In the workplace
• Avoiding ableist language
• Using inclusive LGBTQIA+ language

Iowa Civil Rights Commission

Language 

• Language resources (for non- or limited-English speakers)
  • Community resource and services in Spanish
  • English language learning
  • YWCA of Black Hawk County – Latino and multicultural services and English classes

LGBTQIA+ 

• Clinic
• Community AIDS Assistance Project
• AIDS support