Young Womens Resource Center

Young moms services: provides gender specific programming to pregnant and parenting young women ages 13-24 through a variety of groups and individual case management services. Goals include pursuit of economic self-sufficiency, understanding the advantages of waiting until adulthood to have additional children, understanding the developmental needs of their children, gaining positive parenting skills, and eliminating low birth weight and premature births.

Counseling and therapeutic program utilizes evidence-based interventions that address stress, anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions that youth and young adults are experiencing at high rates. The goal is to increase participants overall sense of well-being. On average, this program serves 120 girls and young women, ages 10-24, each year. This includes cisgender girls, cisgender women, transgender persons and non-binary individuals.

Expect respect is a nationally-recognized, school-based program designed to support youth who have been exposed to and/or experienced violence or abuse in their homes, schools, or communities. The goal is to increase knowledge and skills regarding abuse and harassment while increasing resiliency through building a strong social network and increasing confidence and sense of purpose. This program serves girls and young women in 5th 12th grade in central iowa. This includes cisgender girls, cisgender women, transgender persons and non-binary individuals.