CAAs in the News - December 28, 2009 through January 3, 2010 (MS Word)

Links are provided for articles if active during the week featured.  Some links may expire at a later time.  Users can go to CAA Links to locate individual CAA web sites and agency contact information for follow-up purposes.

AL County expanding transportation services
Leeds News - Leeds, AL
The St. Clair County Area Transportation (SCAT) department has teamed up with the county's Community Action Agency (CAA)...

AZ SEACAP, bike clubs help local families
Eastern Arizona Courier - Safford, AZ
21 when volunteers from Southeast Arizona Community Action Program prepared Christmas baskets for low-income families. "This year we're providing 340...

CA Senior calendar
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria, CA
Community Action Commission of Santa Barbara County (CAC) provides daily hot nutritious lunches to low income seniors from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Monday...

Senior Planner
Enterprise-Record - Chico, CA
Senior Nutrition Program: Community Action Agency of Butte County offers lunches for any county resident, 60 or older, for a suggested donation of $2.50...

FL Miami-Dade Community Action Agency offering grants to small business
MiamiHerald.com - Miami, FL
The Miami-Dade Community Action Agency is offering Micro Enterprise Grants to help low-income small business owners throughout the county...

Hot tickets
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee, FL
Capital Area Community Action Agency hosts the Southeast Regional PigFest BBQ Cookoff at the North Florida Fairgrounds. It's a combination of barbecue...

GA The Heat is On in Thomasville
WCTV - Tallahassee, FL
The Southwest Georgia Community Action Council in Thomasville says they offer assistance to folks who need help covering their heating costs, and officials...

ID Idaho Company To Start Big Regional Food Drive
KUOW NPR - Seattle, WA
Carolyn Shewfelt is the food bank manager at Coeur d'Alene's Community Action Partnership. She says the demand for food from her agency has gone way up this...

IN EVENING NEWS JEERS & CHEERS
Evening News and Tribune - Jeffersonville, IN
...to improvements being made at the Family Health Center of Clark County Inc. and Community Action of Southern Indiana's Head Start Center through federal...

CASI using nearly $1.95M in stimulus funds
New Albany Tribune - Jeffersonville, IN
Renovating the building, along North Indiana Avenue, from an eatery to a Head Start facility is just one of the ways that Community Action of Southern...

CANI helps 32503 in NE Ind.
News Sentinel - Fort Wayne, IN
Community Action of Northeast Indiana works to give opportunities, skills to those who need them. For more information about CANI or how to donate...

Area slow to warm to cash of stimulus
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne, IN
It would have been difficult for community action agencies – with programs, staff and contacts already in place to run such programs – to handle that influx...

KS Buckle Up events announced
Topeka Capital Journal - Topeka, KS
Community Action's Safe Kids Shawnee County has announced its 2010 child safety seat Buckle Up events. 9 am to noon Jan...

KY More homes to qualify for heating help
Bowling Green Daily News - Bowling Green, KY
Community Action of Southern Kentucky will begin qualifying needy individuals for assistance Monday. While the number of households expected to receive...

Home Energy Assistance Program Begins in January
WBKO - Bowling Green, KY
Community Action of Southern Kentucky will begin the crisis portion of the "Low-income Home Energy Assistance Program" in January...

Appointments for utility bill assistance program begin
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville, KY
People who need help can drop in to make an appointment from 8 am-8 pm Monday-Wednesday and 8 am -1 pm Thursday at Community Action Partnership offices...

KCEOC program offers heating costs help
Times Tribune of Corbin - Corbin, KY
KCEOC Community Action Partnership's “crisis” portion of the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) that provides heating assistance to eligible...

MA Homeless numbers skyrocket: Community Action Inc. says Amesbury aid fund is empty
The Daily News - Newburyport, MA
For 25 years, Community Action Inc. has helped hundreds of local families with rent, mortgage and utility assistance. But the Amesbury center's homeless aid...

Towns join to apply for grant money
Middleboro Gazette - Middleboro, MA
Whereas South Shore Community Action Counsel does transportation and food service — they do a little bit more"¦your Council on Aging responded to the survey...

Heat assistance a high demand on the South Shore
Wicked Local Quincy - Quincy, MA
The South Shore Community Action and Quincy Community Action Programs start giving out fuel aid on Nov. 1, and stop on April 30. Not everyone qualifies...

MI Some can get free tax help at Jackson agency
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com (blog) - Jackson, MI
A Parma reader Dear Reader: The Community Action Agency provides free income-tax services for people whose household income is less than $49000...

HUD gives Jackson County $800000 to help the homeless
The Jackson Citizen Patriot - MLive.com - Jackson, MI
The Community Action Agency received $570573 and Training and Treatment Innovations Inc. received $234387 in renewal grants from the US Department of...

MN Reader's view: Time to dispel myths about public assistance
Duluth News Tribune - Duluth, MN
The board of directors of Community Action Duluth recently viewed a portion of an October St. Louis County Board meeting during which some commissioners...

Energy assistance program in Wright County
Star News - Elk River, MN
Wright County Community Action (WCCA) is running a state-issued Energy Assistance Program (EAP) to assist income-eligible households in Wright County defer...

MO Strides made, work remains on Springfield's strategic plan
News-Leader.com - Springfield, MO
Patty VanWeelden, the housing assistance program director for Ozarks Area Community Action Committee, was the chair of the Vision 20/20 affordable housing...

New leadership class aims to take fight to poverty
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph, MO
Community Action Partnership of Greater St. Joseph is now offering a 12-week “Step Up to Leadership” class designed to help community...

CAP receives grant for new homeless prevention program
St. Joseph News-Press - St. Joseph, MO
The Community Action Partnership of Greater St. Joseph recently received a grant from the Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program that will provide...

NC Lots of People Applying For Home Weatherization Program
WHKP - Hendersonville, NC
A lot of people are applying for the home weatherization program according to David White with Western Carolina Community Action...

NH Demand for fuel assistance spikes
Seacoastonline.com
The energy and client services director for the Portsmouth office of the Rockingham Community Action told the Herald last week that about 4700 applicants...

NM Community Action Corporation offers job placement assistance
Alamogordo Daily News - Alamogordo, NM
A free training and job placement assistance program is available through the Southeast New Mexico Community Action Corporation for those who qualify...

NY Orientation
Troy Record - Troy, NY
Albany Community Action Partnership will hold Certified Nurse Assistant Training Orientation at 10 am Jan 4 at the main ACAP office, 333 Sheridan...

Food $en$e registration scheduled
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica, NY
The next registration for Food $en$e, a not-for-profit food-buying club, coordinated in Madison County by Community Action Program...

HUD grant to help many with housing, lives
Olean Times Herald - Olean, NY
In Cattaraugus County, $422157 will extend programs offered by Community Action, Southern Tier Environment for Living Inc. (STEL), Housing Options Made Easy...

500 coats collected in Rockland Coats for Kids drive
Mid-Hudson News - Middletown, NY
The garments were distributed from five locations – Community Action Program and Department of Social Services Clothing Depot, both in Haverstraw...

Homeless programs get boost
WENY-TV - Elmira, NY
Tompkins Community Action in Tompkins County got about $144,00 Right now cold temperature means there is a greater need for shelters...

Finding warmth in winter
Auburn Citizen - Auburn, NY
The Energy Services component of Cayuga/Seneca Community Action Agency offers a variety of programs designed to increase the energy...

OH The Community Housing Improvement Program
Galion Inquirer - Galion, OH
The people of Galion with low to medium incomes will soon be eligible to apply for four programs offered through the Ohio Heartland Community Action...

Winter Crisis Program available
Register-Herald - Eaton, OH
Community Action Partnership is offering the Winter Crisis Program (Emergency HEAP) for Preble County residents now through March 31, 2010...

OR Resolved: New year, new goals around county
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
Chris Shoopman, program manager with United Community Action Network: “To make a profound difference in the lives of low-income families in our community...

Roseburg's Confidence Clinic offering classes for men
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
United Community Action Network instructor Brian Turner, right, and Umpqua Community College instructor Seth Kirby will teach classes for men at UCAN's...

Roseburg business collecting jacket donations
NRToday.com - Roseburg, OR
Coastal Farm and Ranch plans to help low-income Douglas County residents stay warmer this winter by donating jackets to United Community Action Network…

Community Action wins food bank grant
Coos Bay World - Coos Bay, OR
The Ford Family Foundation has awarded $15310 to Oregon Coast Community Action to help local food cupboards. The funds will help the agency distribute food...

PA Volunteers sought to prepare taxes
Clearfield Progress - Clearfield, PA
Central Pennsylvania Community Action is preparing for its sixth year of free tax preparation. Last year, the Clearfield County Money in Your Pocket program...

CPCA Announces Raffle Winner
Gant Daily - Clearfield, PA
Central Pennsylvania Community Action recently held a raffle to raise money for Group Workcamps that will be in Clearfield County in June 2010...

SD City to consider new purchase option for former Rosebud property
MADISONet.com - Madison, SD
Officials with the city and Inter-Lakes Community Action Partnership signed an agreement on Dec. 31, 2008, that gave ICAP the option of purchasing a...

TX Training upgrade 'Plan B' offered
Jacksonville Daily Progress - Jacksonville, TX
By Nathan Straus The Greater East Texas Community Action Program has launched a special program called “Plan B,” which targets those serious about finding a...

UT Habitat for Humanity is looking for partners
Davis County Clipper - Bountiful, UT
19 from 6-7 pm at the Community Action Partnership in Ogden (3159 Grant Ave.), Jan. 21 from 6:30-7:30 pm at the Davis County library in Layton (155 Wasatch...

VA Hendrix named coordinator for Martinsville Community Action Program
Chatham Star Tribune - Chatham, VA
Arnold Hendrix has been hired as coordinator of Pittsylvania County Community Action's Southside Community Action Program in Martinsville...

WI Rent assistance program working
Wisconsin Dells Events - Wisconsin Dells, WI
A local Central Wisconsin Community Action Council apartment lease assistance program designed to help renters become...

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