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Currently, residents of Iowa can go to the WorkWORLD order page to place a paid order for the WorkWORLD program. Public and private agencies, organizations, and individuals, working as a collaboration, can pledge support to make WorkWORLD freely available to all in Iowa. When the pledged support reaches 100%, citizens of Iowa will be able to obtain WorkWORLD software and updates for free. Currently, residents of Iowa can go to the WorkWORLD order page to place a paid order for the WorkWORLD program. See Achieving Free WorkWORLD in Your State Through Pledges for complete information about support pledges. Please make a pledge today. You can also urge leaders in Iowa, listed below, and others to make a pledge. Pledges from your state, Iowa, will be posted on this web page. |
Providing constructive feedback to leadership to help improve government policies and programs is a worthy endeavor. Most people in leadership positions do value the opinions of people experiencing or close to problems in our system.
Citizen-provided information is often the best and most accurate information a leader can receive. Sometimes it is the only way they can learn about real issues, difficulties, and successes of government initiatives to serve their constituents. We think leaders respond to positive feedback that they believe is accurate and reliable.
Providing your opinion and feedback to leadership could help get WorkWORLDTM provided free to all in Iowa. This page provides, as a convenience, key contact information for agencies in your state and members of your state legislature. A different page has contact information for federal agencies.
Additionally, the Achieving Free WorkWORLD in Your State Through Pledges page shows how state agencies, community-based organizations, and individuals can help build a state funding pool to make WorkWORLD free to residents of Iowa.
If you do contact leadership, tell them why WorkWORLD is valuable to you, and how you use the WorkWORLD program or website. Leadership can be encouraged to visit our explanation page for our new funding structure, so that they can consider the value of working with us to arrange for free distribution of our software to all that want it in Iowa.
Contact information and agency structures change frequently at the state level. If you find information here that needs to be updated, or if you know of other people and agencies in Iowa that should be added to the list, please email us at workworld@vcu.edu.
You may also wish to review our new funding structure page which details changes in distribution and other steps we are taking to keep WorkWORLD available for all.
Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services
Steve Wooderson, Administrator
510 East 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0240
Phone: 515-281-6731
Fax: 515-281-4703
Department for the Blind
Allen Harris, Administrator
524 Fourth Street
Des Moines, IA 50309-2364
Phone: 515-281-1334
Fax: 515-281-1263
Division of Behavioral, Developmental, and Protective Services - Department of Human Services
Director
1305 East Walnut Street
Des Moines, IA 50319-0114
Phone: 515-281- 5521
Fax: 515-242-6036
Governor's Developmental Disabilities Council
Becky Harker, Executive Director
617 E. Second Steet
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: 515-281-9082
Fax: 515-281-9087
Email: bharker@dhs.state.ia.us
Governor's DD Council
Nancy Sayres, Chairperson
18538 490th Street
Mystic, IA 52574
Phone: 641-856-6102 ext 13
Email: savresn@aea15.k12.ia.us
Iowa P&A Services, Inc
Mervin Roth, Director
3015 Merle Hay Road, Suite 6
Des Moines, IA 50310
Phone: 515-278-2502
Fax: 515-278-0539
Email: info@ipna.org
Division of Medical Services Department of Human Services
Eugene Gessow, Director
100 Army Post Road
Des Moines, IA 50315
Phone: 515-725-1121
Fax: 515-725-1121
Veterans Affairs
Patrick Palmersheim, State Director of Veterans Affairs
IA
Email: patrick.palmersheim@icva.state.ia.us
Department of Workforce Development
Richard Running, Director
1000 East Grand Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50319
Phone: 515-281-5365
Fax: 515-281-4698
Email: Richard.Running@iwd.state.ia.us
Iowa Workforce Development
Mike Trier, Commissioner
1000 E. Grand Ave
Des Moines, IA 50319-0209
Phone: 515-281-5387
Fax: 515-281-6501
League Of Human Dignity, Inc.
Christy Solomon, Executive Director
1417 1/2 West Broadway
Council Bluffs, IA 51501
Phone: 712-323-6863
Fax: 712-323-6811
Email: cinfo@leagueofhumandignity.com
Central Iowa Center Of Independent Living
Robert Jeppesen, Executive Director
655 Walnut St., Suite 131
Des Moines, IA 50309
Phone: 515-243-1742
Fax: 515-243-5385
Email: cicil@raccoon.com
Evert Conner Rights And Resources Center For Independent Living
Christy Oaehanlon, Executive Director
730 S Dubuque St.
Iowa City, IA 52240-4202
Phone: 319-338-3870
Fax: 319-338-8385
Email: ConnorCtr@aol.com
South Central Iowa ILC
Nika Naylor, Executive Director
500 High Ave W.
Oskaloosa, IA 52577-7210
Phone: 800-651-7911
Fax: 800-651-7911
Email: nika.naylor@mahaska.org
Three Rivers CIL
Brenda Denney, Executive Director
505 Sixth St. Suite 504
Sioux City, IA 51101
Phone: 712-255-1065
Fax: 712-255-7712
Black Hawk CIL
David Schumaker, Executive Director
312 Jefferson Street
Waterloo, IA 50701
Phone: 319-291-7755
Fax: 319-291-7781
Email: bhcil@blackhawkcenter.org
Write Your State Legislators
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