As Iowans deal with disruptions to families and communities, these resources provide information in Spanish to help you cope with concerns about healthy eating, parenting, mental health and wellbeing, money, food safety, and nutrition.
Free and Confidential Helplines
Iowa Concern | Call 800-447-1985 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. |
AnswerLine | Call 800-262-3804 (in Iowa) Monday through Friday, 9 am-noon and 1-4 pm. 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline | Call 988 |
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
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- National Hispanic Family Health Helpline | Call: 866-783-2645
Free, reliable, and confidential health and mental health information to help callers navigate the health system. - Dental Connections | Call: 515-244-9136
A non-profit community health center providing general and pediatric dental services to all income levels and all ages. - National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- National Alliance for Hispanic Health
- Mental Health America
- National Hispanic Family Health Helpline | Call: 866-783-2645
- Finance
- Food Access
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Connect with your local food bank
- Food Bank of Siouxland Inc. - serving Lyon, Sioux, Plymouth, Cherokee, Woodbury, Ida, Monona, and Crawford counties
- Food Bank for the Heartland - serving Harrison, Shelby, Pottawattamie, Cass, Mills, Montgomery, Fremont, and Page counties
- River Bend Food Bank - serving Muscatine, Scott, Clinton, Jackson, and Dubuque counties
- HACAP - serving Jones, Cedar, Johnson, Linn, Washington, Benton, and Iowa counties
- Northeast Iowa Food Bank - serving Mitchell, Howard, Winneshiek, Allamakee, Floyd, Butler, Bremer, Chickasaw, Fayette, Clayton, Grundy, Black Hawk, Buchanan, Delaware, Tama, and Poweshiek counties
- Food Bank of Iowa - all counties not listed above
Access meals for children
- Check the interactive map with information about meals for children in your community
- Text 'COMIDA' to 877-877
- Workforce Training and Support
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- Proteus: Services to Empower Farm Workers | Call: 800-372-6031
Proteus provides agricultural workers and their families with affordable health care, education assistance, and job training. - Al Éxito | Call: 515-865-7195
Al Éxito is dedicated to advancing the educational achievement and transformative leadership capacity of Latinx youth and their families to succeed in life and participate fully in Iowa.
- Proteus: Services to Empower Farm Workers | Call: 800-372-6031
- Legal Services
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- Iowa Movement for Migrant Justice | Call: 515-255-9809
- Iowa Department of Human Rights, Immigration Resources
Attorneys and non-profit organizations able to assist individuals navigating the immigration system.
- Stress
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- Stress: Taking Charge - All About Stress
- Stress Signs and Symptoms
Physical and behavioral signs of stress, with suggestions for self-help and how to help someone else.