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DMACC Library
The DMACC libraries provide various services including:
- Research Help
- InterLibrary Loan (a service that allows you to borrow materials from other libraries)
- Database Access
DMACC Academic Achievement Center (AAC)—Urban
All current DMACC students can receive academic support from the Academic Achievement
Center (AAC).
The subjects the AAC tutors can help you with are:
- Reading / ELL
- Writing
- Speech / Presentation
- Library / Research
- Math
- Science
- Accounting
- Social Science—Psychology, Sociology, History, etc.
- Computer—Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, WebInfo, Desktop Publishing, Blackboard, etc.
- Engineering / C++ Program Languages
DMACC Urban Academic Advising
Talk to an academic advisor whenever you want to:
- Start the college admission process
- Plan your class schedule
- Register for classes
- Learn about various programs at DMACC
- Complete a program of study successfully and graduate
- Transfer to another college or university
DMACC Urban Testing Center
At the Testing Center, you can take:
- Make up tests
- ACCUPLACER & ELL ACCUPLACER tests (placement tests)
- HiSET tests
- And many more!
*When you take a test in person at the testing center, you need to bring a photo ID.
ACCUPLACER Remote Testing
Click on this link to schedule an ACCUPLACER test.
DMACC Urban Bookstore
Buy or order your textbooks and get them on time!
DMACC Urban Counseling
Talk to a counselor when you have issues such as:
- Feeling stressed out or nervous
- Feeling sad or depressed
- Going through difficult situations (personal and/or academic)
- Making difficult decisions
If you want to learn English outside the classroom, check out the following websites.
If you want more information on writing, visit the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue
University.
Purdue OWL
Videos with Quizzes
Mobile Apps
Living in the USA
- U.S. Money – Do you have Change?
- Cultural Differences between Native Speakers and English Learners
- Title and Forms of Addressing a person
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LINCS - Community - Courses - Resources
The following are helpful resources in the Central Iowa area.
Other English Classes
- Lutheran Services in Iowa
3200 University Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50311
515-271-7335
Utility Payment Assistance
- General Assistance Program
Community & Family Division
Polk County River Place
2309 Euclid Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50310
(515) 286-3434
- Low Income Home Energy Assistance
321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, IA 50319
(515) 242-5655
- Utility Assistance
Directory of available services.
Family Crisis Center
- Adult Behavioral Services
(515) 282-5695
- Crisis & Advocacy Services
24-hour response
515-286-3600
- TeenLine
(800) 443-8336
Careers and Job Assistance
- Evelyn K. Davis Center
1171 Seventh Street
Des Moines, IA 50314
515-697-7700
Food Pantries
- DMARC
1435 Mulberry Street
Des Moines, IA 50309
Note: Check website for locations of food pantries.
515-277-6969
- Food Bank – General Services List
Listing of Polk County Iowa food banks and pantries.
- Food Pantry List
Listings of food pantries, food closets, food banks, soup kitchens, congregate meal locations, food boxes, vouchers, etc.
Housing-General Services
- Anawim Housing
1171 7th Street, Suite 1
Des Moines, IA 50314
515-244-8308
- Central Iowa Regional Housing Authority
(Serves Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion and Story Counties)
1201 Gateway Drive
Grimes, IA 50111
515-986-1882
- Conmingo Early Education Center
828 Scott Avenue
Des Moines, IA
515-242-0225
- Cross Ministries
1050 24th Street
Des Moines, IA
515-979-9998
- Home, Inc.
1111 9th Street, Suite 210
Des Moines, IA - 515-243-1277
- Polk County General Assistance (General Relief)
2309 Euclid Avenue
Des Moines, IA
515-286-2088
- Proteus, Inc.
1221 Center St,
Des Moines, IA
515-271-5303 & 1-800-372-6031
Internet Services
- Everyone On
Low-cost Internet options, such as those brokered by www.EveryoneOn.org, that can turn classrooms, public housing community centers, and community-based organizations into Internet access hot spots and provide in-home access to low-income families.
Legal
- Iowa Legal Aid
1111 9th Street, Suite 230
Des Moines, IA
800-532-1275
- Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice
515-255-9809 - United States Citizenship & Immigration Services
210 Walnut Street, Room 369
Federal Bldg.
Des Moines, IA
515-323-2050
Low and Subsidized Rental Housing
- City of Des Moines Housing Services
Housing Services Office
2309 Euclid Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-323-8950
- Find Affordable Rentals
The largest affordable housing rental network on the web.
- Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program
Check website for contact information.
- Section 8 Iowa Housing Search
877-428-8844
- Self-Sufficiency Program (buy your own home)Check website for contact information.
Rent Payment Assistance
- Iowa Finance Authority
1963 Bell Avenue, Suite 200
Des Moines, Iowa 50315
800-432-7230
- Proteus
1221 Center Street, Suite 16
Des Moines, IA 50309
800-372-6031
Transportation
- Des Moines Regional Transit Authority (DART)
1100 Dart Way
Des Moines, IA
515-283-8100