ELL Resources

鉴黄师app Library
The 鉴黄师app libraries provide various services including:

  • Research Help
  • InterLibrary Loan (a service that allows you to borrow materials from other libraries)
  • Database Access

鉴黄师app Academic Achievement Center (AAC)鈥擠es Moines/Urban
All current 鉴黄师app 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, Desktop Publishing, Canvas, etc.
  • Engineering / C++ Program Languages

鉴黄师app Des Moines/Urban Academic Advising
Talk to a 鉴黄师app academic advisor whenever you want to:

  • Start the college admission process
  • Plan your class schedule
  • Register for classes
  • Learn about various programs at 鉴黄师app
  • Complete a program of study successfully and graduate
  • Switch from one program of study to another at 鉴黄师app
  • Transfer to another college or university

鉴黄师app Des Moines/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 鉴黄师app testing center, you need to bring a photo ID.


Click on to schedule an ACCUPLACER test.


Buy or order your textbooks and get them on time!

鉴黄师app 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 resource websites.

If you want more information on writing, visit the Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University.

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Living in the USA

  • LINCS - Community - Courses - Resources

The following are helpful resources in the Central Iowa area.

Careers and Job Assistance


  • 200 Army Post Road
    Des Moines, IA 50315
    Phone: 515-281-9619

  • Evelyn K. Davis Center
    1171 Seventh Street
    Des Moines, IA 50314
    Phone: 515-697-7700

Other English Classes


  • 3200 University Avenue
    Des Moines, IA 50311
    Phone: 515-271-7335

Utility Payment Assistance


  • Community & Family Division
    Polk County River Place
    2309 Euclid Avenue
    Des Moines, IA 50310
    Phone: 515-286-3434

  • 321 E. 12th Street
    Des Moines, IA 50319
    Phone: 515-242-5655

Family Crisis Center


  • Phone: 515-282-5695

  • 24-hour response
    Phone: 515-286-3600
  • TeenLine
    Phone: 1-800-443-8336

Food Pantries


  • 1435 Mulberry Street
    Des Moines, IA 50309
    Note: Check website for locations of food pantries.
    Phone: 515-277-6969

  • Listings of food pantries, food closets, food banks, soup kitchens, congregate meal locations, food boxes, vouchers, etc.

Housing-General Services


  • 1171 7th Street, Suite 1
    Des Moines, IA 50314
    Phone: 515-244-8308

  • (Serves Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion and Story Counties)
    1201 Gateway Drive
    Grimes, IA 50111
    Phone: 515-986-1882

  • 828 Scott Avenue
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-242-0225

  • 1050 24th Street
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-979-9998

  • 1111 9th Street, Suite 210
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-243-1277

  • 2309 Euclid Avenue
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-286-2088

  • 1221 Center St,
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-271-5303 & 1-800-372-6031

Internet Services


  • Low-cost Internet options, such as those brokered by can provide in-home access to low-income families. They can also turn classrooms, public housing community centers, and community-based organizations into Internet access hot spots.

Legal


  • 1111 9th Street, Suite 230
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 1-800-532-1275

  • Phone: 515-255-9809

  • 210 Walnut Street, Room 369
    Federal Bldg.
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-323-2050

Low and Subsidized Rental Housing


  • Housing Services Office
    2309 Euclid Avenue
    Des Moines, IA 50310
    Phone 515-323-8950

  • Check website for contact information.

  • 877-428-8844

  • Check website for contact information.

Rent Payment Assistance


  • 1963 Bell Avenue, Suite 200
    Des Moines, Iowa 50315
    Phone: 1-800-432-7230

  • 1221 Center Street, Suite 16
    Des Moines, IA 50309
    Phone: 1-800-372-6031

Transportation


  • 1100 Dart Way
    Des Moines, IA
    Phone: 515-283-8100