Do you want to know where stimulus money, as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is being utilized? Of course you do! It's your money. In order to keep the public informed, MICA has devoted a portion of its website to keeping you up to date on our latest investments directly related to the economic stimulus. We want you to know that MICA is doing everything it can to get the economy going.

Latest Projects

Area	Purpose	Amount Awarded	Spent To Date	% Spent	Comments
Head Start     (ends 9/2010)	Quality Improvement: Addition of QI coordinator, assistance for teacher continuing education, DLL training, mentor teacher expansion	$105,442	$28,591.03	27.12%	The Quality Improvement Coordinator/Mentor Teacher has been working with Head Start assistant teachers as they participate in DMACC classes that will result in the assistant teachers receiving a Child Development Associate Certificate (CDA).  Extended services for 16 preschool children enrolled in the Marshalltown Salvation Army classroom continued.
	Family Development services and COLA	$33,840	$15,296.78	45.20%	Funding continued to be utilized to support the full costs of providing Family Development services to 20 families.
Early Head Start    (ends 9/2010)	Quality Improvement: Addition of QI coordinator, assistance for teacher continuing education, DLL training, playground improvement	$35,667	$9,192.18	25.77%	The Quality Improvement Coordinator/Mentor Teacher has been working with Early Head Start assistant teachers as they participate in DMACC classes that will result in the assistant teachers receiving a Child Development Associate Certificate (CDA).
	OAE (hearing evaluation) equipment, classroom facility updates, and COLA	$20,267	$10,079.87	49.74%	No new activities in January, 2010 ($10.33 in expenses related to Workers Compensation).
Weatherization (ends 3/2012)	Weatherize additional homes	2,921,118	589,829.83	20.19%	34 homes have been weatherized to date.
CSBG (ends 9/2010)	Family Financial Fitness	391,982	189,721.10	48.40%	MICA has enrolled a total of 170 families in the Financial Fitness program in 5 counties. There are 71 families who have started saving money, 6 IDAs opened and 19 bank or Credit Union accounts opened. The Counselors have help 8 families avoid foreclosure on their homes and referred 154 families to EITC and free tax preparation sites.
	Job Coaching	106,686	41,398.20	38.80%	Over 54 individuals have been served in two counties. Of those served, 15 now have full-time employment. 2 found Part time employment, 21 have received interviews, and there have been 160 job search plans created. The job coach has also conducted mock interviews with clients and assisted with application completion.
	Dental Care for Dislocated Workers	$26,000	$6,722.94	25.86%	To date, 41 clients have been served with ARRA funding.
	Start Sooner, Stay Longer, Keep Learning	173,416	48,690.24	28.08%	A focus group was held for feedback from parents in the neighborhood on what would need to happen or change for Marshalltown to be the ideal place to raise children.  Four parents attended.   An early literacy training was held to promote the early literacy campaign message, "Little Ones Need Words".  Local agencies who work with families and children ages birth to five years of age were invited to attend. The training focused on the importance of children's vocabulary through dialogic reading and extended conversations. Fifteen participants from four agencies attended.
	Head Start bussing	$44,596	$5,228.87	11.72%	The bus route to the Iowa Falls part day Head Start classroom continued.  Some funding was used to support the Huxley Head Start bus route.
Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing (ends 9/2012)	Homeless prevention and re-housing	$863,625	$95,215.88	11%	MICA has served just over 100 families to date with HPRP assistance. Budgeting and counseling has been offered to each of these families. 93% of the families have been helped for 3 months or less and have remained stable, with 4% leaving the program with unknown circumstances and 3% needing further assistance
Totals		$4,722,639.00	$1,039,966.92	22%