The Iowa Compass program connects people who have complex health-related needs and disabilities to services and supports. When you call or email, a Community Resource Specialist will listen to your needs and help you solve challenges.
Iowa Compass does not share any personal information from those who get in touch with them, unless permission is given.
Here are some examples of what Iowa Compass does. Suppose you need a vehicle that can accommodate your wheelchair. Iowa Compass can connect you to for-profit companies and nonprofit organizations that build or adapt vans, and to funding for a portion of these costs.
Another example: an individual with a vision disability wants to continue working. Iowa Compass can connect the person to job placement programs specifically for persons with vision impairments.
The organization’s website has a great deal of information. If you prefer to use your phone, call Iowa Compass at 800-779-2001, or you may text, live chat or e-mail.
Iowa Compass can offer help to caregivers of disabled children or adult family members so the caregivers can continue to be employed. Look on the website for helpful information, such as how disabled persons who use assistive technology can get tax breaks.
Ann Cochran is the health navigation coordinator in the Dallas County Public Health Department.
My disabled daughter and her fiancee who has the later stages of ms have to move July 30. We have been searching and searching for a 2 bedroom apartment on the first level. I have 3 pages of apartment but no luck. They are going to end up on the streets in 4 days. This is not right nor is it human. Why can’t we find help. I don’t need everyone sympathy I need help with an apartment. They deserve a home. They have enough on their plate with their disabilties?
Social services are available, but you are unlikely to find them via comments on a six-month-old story in ThePerryNews. Good luck.