What is MCSA and what do we do?

Submitted by mcsahome
on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 4:44pm

MCSA provides temporary shelter, basic health care, educational and vocational support services for those in need in Muscatine County while working to reduce these needs through long-term social change in the community.

Our goals are to: 

  • provide a clean, attractive safe and secure temporary home for people in need in order for them to have the time and place to rebuild their lives.

  • provide basic, unmet health care servies and health education for people in need.

  • offer support, direction, education, job training and counseling to have each individual develop life skills needed to move

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Heinz gives $10,000 to MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Fri, 05/03/2013 - 1:19pm

Note: This a news release issued by H.J. Heinz Co. Click here to read a news story about the donation.

Employees at the H.J. Heinz Company’s Muscatine factory presented donations Wednesday  totaling $15,000 to Muscatine Center for Social Action and Flickinger Learning Center.

 

As part of a joint community grant program between the H.J. Heinz Company Foundation and Heinz North America to give back to the communities in which its factories reside, the Muscatine facility nominated the organizations for the grants and each then submitted a formal grant proposal.

Read our Spring Newsletter

Submitted by mcsahome
on Tue, 04/30/2013 - 1:59am

Our Spring Newsletter is packed full of information and photos about MCSA.

Day of Cleaning

Submitted by mcsahome
on Fri, 04/26/2013 - 10:28am

Melinda Larson of Trinity Muscatine New Horizons, from the left, joined Muscatine High School Students Against Destructive Decisions chapter members Sofia Arellano, Maria Franco and Camila Franco today to clean the MCSA kitchen as part of the United Way of Muscatine's Spring Day of Caring. The day was held as a way for young people to volunteer in the community.

 

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MCSA gets new bike racks

Submitted by mcsahome
on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 1:46pm

It’s a rare day at MCSA when something amazing doesn’t happen.

For me, however, today will be more memorable than most days.  Ray Verbraak of Verbraak Welding in Bettendorf arrived to install the four custom-made bike racks he built for MCSA. The wracks were purchased with a generous donation from the Melon City Bike Club and other private donations. But as is sometimes the case, once Verbraak started to hang them up on the Fourth Street side of the MCSA building, we discovered the fourth one wouldn’t fit where we had planned to put all of them.

Here's a chance to join the staff at MCSA

Submitted by mcsahome
on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 3:46pm

MCSA has an immediate opening for a part-time caseworker whose job will be to assist residents discover ways to improve their lives and find permanent housing. 

Duties include:

·         Scheduling and holding weekly one-one-one meetings with assigned residents.

·         Filing timely reports on all of these meetings, along with entering all pertinent information in the programs and databases used by MCSA.

·         Coaching residents while also holding them accountable and working with them to make progress.

 

The ideal candidate will have:

·         One to three years of

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