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60 Forward center reports growing use; Heartland says adult day services demand has outpaced county ARPA allocation
Summary
The 60 Forward center, funded in part with ARPA dollars, opened Sept. 30, 2024; Heartland told supervisors the center hosts fitness classes, a bistro and adult day services that have reached capacity and exhausted Story County FY24 funds of $111,446.
A Heartland representative told the Story County Board of Supervisors on April 1, 2025, that the 60 Forward center opened on Sept. 30, 2024, and has become a regularly used site for fitness classes, technology help, senior clinics and an adult day program that has strained available funding.
"The 60 Forward center opened September thirtieth of 2024. So we have been officially opened a little over 6 months now," the Heartland representative said. The speaker described weekly offerings that include about 15 fitness classes provided by Ames Parks and Recreation, partner-provided dementia-prevention programs from Mary Greeley, a technology drop-in staffed by Ames High School…
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