Food Assistance

• Childcare Assistance: Helps pay for childcare while parents or caretakers work, attend school, look for employment or are unable to care for children due to medical reasons.
• Families First: Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) program to help families stay together and prevent the need for foster care.
• Parent Partners: An innovative social work practice. It is unique because it celebrates individuals that have overcome obstacles through change, recovery, and accountability. Parent Partners are advocates for families. They also hold families accountable by through their case plan goals.
• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): An entitlement program that provides monthly benefits to assist low-income households in purchasing the food, they need to maintain adequate nutritional levels.

It offers community, nutrition, and case management services, as well as access to community resources. The agency contracts with local providers to help provide services to individuals living in a community setting, allowing them to remain in the least restrictive environment.

Help with applying for waiver services including for homecare. 

Toll Free: 800-747-5352

• Any Adult 60 years of Age or Older
• Any Adult 18 Years of Age or Older with a Disability
• Any Family Caregiver

2024 ASSISTED LIVING, MEMORY CARE & INDEPENDENT LIVING HOUSING LIST

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Blessing Boxes (Boy Scouts) in Newton: food for those in need. 

• Connections, Capstone Behavioral Healthcare, 306 N Third Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• American Legion, 1101 W Fourth St S, Newton, IA 50208
• First Baptist Youth Blessings Box, 620 S Eighth Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Christian Reformed Church, 511 S Fifth Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Christian Life Church of Newton, 421 S 2nd Ave W, Newton, IA 50208
• The Least of Saints Church, 1305 E 10th St S., Newton, IA 50208
• Grace Church, 1620 N 11th Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Parking lot across from Salvation Army

Blessing Boxes: Colfax

• Howard Street Christian Church, 101 N Locust St, Colfax, IA 50054

If the above information has changed, please email jaspercocares@jasperia.org and we will correct it. 

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Wednesday night meal in Newton church basement.

IMPACT Community Action Partnership reduces the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs. Assistance may be available for food and personal hygiene, utilities (heat, water, and cooling), housing (rent, deposit, and mortgage), and emergency needs.
All services are available in the office, over the phone, and by a scheduled home visit. Several programs can also be accessed via online application, email, or postal mail. See our website or contact our team by phone or email to learn more. 

Offers help with emergency applications such as flood or weather damage events. 

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Food Cards: IMPACT Resource Centers located in counties where we do not have a food pantry (Jasper, Marion, and Warren) offer limited access to food cards for local grocery stores. Please call 515-518-4770 to check on the availability of the cards.

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RAYS Scholarship: for eligible low-income students to participate in sports, band, dance, etc.

AIR CONDITIONER/FAN PROGRAM | IMPACT COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP

WINDOW AIR CONDITIONER or (ECAP) Emergency Cooling Program: Applications accepted June 1 - September 30 or until all units have been expended. Must meet income guidelines for the LIHEAP program, must provide a statement from a physician indicating medical need and must take Energy Wise class within 3 business days of application. Renters, allowed window unit only, will need a signed landlord approval statement. If the client rents and the landlord provides central air or a window unit it is the responsibility of the landlord to repair or replace. If the client rents and must provide their own window air conditioner they may be eligible. Household cannot have received an air conditioner from Impact in the previous seven years.
Home Visit Available, Newton, IA, 50208 

(515) 518-4770

From 211.

Use your SNAP card to buy fresh produce and ‘ASK’ your cashier to sign-up for your Double Up Food Bucks card with your zip code and phone number.

Double Up Food Bucks campaign is an initiative where SNAP EBT users can double their money when they purchase fresh fruits and vegetables at participating locations. The Newton and Grinnell Fareway stores are currently participating locations as well as the Prairie City Farmer’s Market and Grinnell Farmer’s Market seasonally.

Meal packaging events. 

Jasper County Hunger Relief is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit corporation dedicated to the goal of fighting hunger. Our approach to achieving this goal is the packaging of highly nutritious, vitamin-fortified meals by volunteers at locations around Jasper County, and the distribution of those meals to those facing hunger and food insecurity, primarily in the communities of our county.

We recently began working with a new partner in our mission, The Outreach Program, a non-profit based in Union, Iowa. We now get our meal packaging supplies from this organization. They have 10 different varieties of nutritious meals available to us for packaging events!

The focus of our mission has become even more local, as we are now working to distribute our meals entirely within the communities of Jasper County. Our meals have been distributed in Newton, Kellogg, Lynnville, Sully, Colfax, Mingo, and Baxter through food banks, blessing boxes, churches, and other charitable organizations.

Jasper County Hunger Relief is governed by a board of local volunteers, who also handle the logistics of running the meal packaging events. The organization has no paid staff, so all donations go to the support of our mission.

Blessing Boxes (Boy Scouts) in Newton: food for those in need. 

• Connections, Capstone Behavioral Healthcare, 306 N Third Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• American Legion, 1101 W Fourth St S, Newton, IA 50208
• First Baptist Youth Blessings Box, 620 S Eighth Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Christian Reformed Church, 511 S Fifth Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Christian Life Church of Newton, 421 S 2nd Ave W, Newton, IA 50208
• The Least of Saints Church, 1305 E 10th St S., Newton, IA 50208
• Grace Church, 1620 N 11th Ave E, Newton, IA 50208
• Parking lot across from Salvation Army

Blessing Boxes: Colfax

• Howard Street Christian Church, 101 N Locust St, Colfax, IA 50054

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 Helps with the following claim forms: compensation, pension, burial, headstone application, education, dependency and indemnity, eligibility verification report, healthcare, insurance, dental, and home loans. Indigent veteran assistance is also available for housing, food, and utilities. Transportation for medical visits in coordination with RSVP/Jasper Co. Rides. 

Mid Iowa Community Action MICA

WIC: Pregnant, postpartum, breastfeeding, infant, children up to age 5. 

WIC Times and locations:

Newton Salvation Army

• 1st Monday of every month
  9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
• 2nd Tuesday of every month
  10:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.
• 2nd Monday and Wednesday of every month
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Howard St. Christian Church in Colfax

• 1st Wednesday of every month
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m

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MICA Food Pantry

MICA runs three emergency food pantries located in Hardin, Story, and Poweshiek counties.

What is the emergency food pantry?

The emergency food pantry is designed to help you put food on the table if you are struggling. We also have hygiene and cleaning products in most of our food pantries, including diapers, soap, shampoo and conditioner, feminine hygiene products, and other essentials. All of our food pantries allow you to make a choice among several different options to help you select items you will be able to use and accommodate dietary restrictions. A typical food package feeds a family for two to three days, but we also may have other goods donated from bakeries and grocery stores that are available to take for anyone in need.

Do I qualify for the emergency food pantry?

The food pantry is designed for families who are earning under $53,000 for a family of four. You are welcome to visit the food pantry if you are unable to provide food for your family.

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• Free donated clothing.
• Hours Mon 6-7, Tues & Wed 10-2, Thurs 9-12, Sat 10-12.
• Closed 3rd Sat of the month.
• Breadline- see Facebook for dates in coordination with Salvation Army. 

We are a 501(c)3 non-profit clothing closet run by a group of volunteers. We take clothing donations, sort thru them and put on display racks for individuals or families to shop for what they need. We are located on the second floor of the FRC Family Life Center in Prairie City, Iowa (across the street from the fire station).

Breadline- see Facebook for more information. In coordination with Salvation Army. 

The Iowa Bureau of Refugee Services (BRS) is a federally funded office of the Iowa Department of Human Services and is charged with supporting the resettlement of refugees in Iowa. BRS works with a network of resettlement agencies (RA) across Iowa who do the bulk of the direct resettlement work with refugees.

The SNAP hotline is here to help you with qualification and application questions. Call 855-944-3663 or email foodassistanceoutreach@iowafba.org.

• The Commodity Supplemental Foods Program (CSFP) provides supplemental food and nutrition education for the elderly ages 60 and over at no cost.

We provide freshly made home-delivered meals in the central Iowa area.