Community Action Economic Mobility Initiative

The Annie E. Casey Foundation awarded a grant of $250,000 to the Community Action Partnership (Partnership) to design and implement the Community Action Economic Mobility Initiative. Through this funding, the Partnership is offering CAAs a multi-tiered system of support that builds their capacity to pursue a new approach to help families achieve mobility from poverty.

This multi-tiered system has been designed to coordinate with the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of Community Services, Community Services Block Grant Learning Communities Resource Center. Through the Community Action Economic Mobility Initiative, the Partnership is offering training, technical assistance, and other support to CAAs with varying levels of readiness to pursue integrated services and a whole family approach (two-generation approach).

Whole Family Approach Institute

At the Inaugural 2018 Whole Family Approach Institute in Washington, D.C. on May 31- June 1—an event hosted by the National Community Action Partnership and made possible through the generous support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the US Department of Health and Human Services—thirty-nine Community Action Agencies from around the country took part in a two-day intensive program to learn more about making the switch to a Whole Family Approach. During the Whole Family Approach Institute, the Rural IMPACT community served as mentors, peer-learners and co-innovators. They shared building blocks that were critical to achieving success using the Whole Family Approach.

Rural IMPACT’s groundbreaking work will be continued through the Partnership’s Community Action Economic Mobility Initiative.

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Interviews

Whole Family COP Members


Aroostook County Action Program, Inc.	Presque Isle, ME
Blueprints	Washington, PA
Central Missouri Community Action	Columbia, MO
Community Action Inc.	Topeka, KS
Community Action Partnership of Sonoma County	Santa Rosa, CA
Enrichment Services Program, Inc.	Columbus, GA

Mahube-Otwa Community Action	Detroit Lakes, MN
Metropolitan Action Commission with the Tennessee Dept. of Human Services	Nashville, TN
People Incorporated of Virginia	Abingdon, VA
Total Community Action, Inc.	New Orleans, LA

Whole Family COP Rural IMPACT Fellows

Allegany County HRDC	Cumberland, MD
Garrett County Community Action Committee	Oakland, MD
Highland County Community Action Organization, Inc.	Hillsboro, OH
Little Dixie C.A.A. Inc.	Hugo, Oklahoma
Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc.	Marshalltown, IA
Mississippi County, Arkansas, Economic Opportunity Commission, Inc.	Blytheville, AR

Whole Family LCG Members

Bucks County Opportunity Council, Inc. (BCOC)	Doylestown, PA
Community Action	Hillsboro, OR
Community Concepts, Inc.	Lewiston, ME
Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County	San Bernardino, CA
Community Services & Employment Training, Inc. (CSET)	Visalia, CA
Contra Costa County EHSD Community Services Bureau	Concord, CA
Eastern Idaho Community Action Partnership	Idaho Falls, ID
Kennebec Valley Community Action Program	Waterville, ME
Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc.	Utica, NY
Montgomery County Community Action Development Commission	Norristown, PA

Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity	Philadelphia, PA
Tri-County Community Action	Harrisburg, PA
Palmetto CAP	Charleston, SC
Wayne Metro Community Action Agency	Detroit, MI
Penquis CAP, Inc.	Bangor, ME
Sunbelt Human Advancement Resources, Inc (SHARE)	Greenville, SC