Community Action Agencies all across the country are on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical services for your communities in the midst of a life-threatening situation. Being a highly-responsive social service professional in these times can cause a considerable amount of personal stress, and both acute and secondary trauma, while working with our communities experiencing their own long-term and COVID-related traumas. Join us for a webinar where Denese Shervington, MD, MPH will lead us in “Start With Yourself,” providing strategies for stress management and self-care tools, and informing the planning for working with traumatized customers and communities.

Join Community Action National Partners CAP, CAPLAW and NASCSP for a weekly update on the impact of COVID-19 on the network, taking place every Thursday at 3 AST / 3 EST / 2 CST / 1 MST / 12 PST / 10 AKST / 9 HST beginning on April 2, 2020.  The content for these national […]

Please join us for the release of the 2020 Community Action Month Toolkit! We’ll walk through the contents of the toolkit, how to use it, and highlight what’s new including all-new social media graphics and sample tweets, new daily themes and hashtags, updated meme creators, 2020 Census content, and a companion one-pager with ideas and […]

Join Community Action National Partners CAP, CAPLAW and NASCSP for a weekly update on the impact of COVID-19 on the network, every Thursday at 3 ET / 2 CT / 1 MT / 12 PT  (3 AST / 10 AKST / 9 HST). NCAF will participate as schedules allow. The content for these national partner calls […]

The National Community Action Partnership has drafted a concept paper to work with public health partners to break the chain of COVID-19 transmission and prevent the need for future lockdowns through a coordinated case-finding and contact-tracing effort. While many individuals who can work from home and have healthy support systems are able to quarantine successfully without too much disruption […]

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Join Community Action National Partners CAP, CAPLAW and NASCSP for a weekly update on the impact of COVID-19 on the network, every Thursday at 3 ET / 2 CT / 1 MT / 12 PT  (3 AST / 10 AKST / 9 HST). NCAF will participate as schedules allow. The content for these national partner […]

This webinar will focus on insights on best practices in facilitating human service and workforce development programs in response to COVID-19- both from an organizational perspective on how to support your staff, but also from a people perspective on how to support your customers. In each section, ICF will discuss emerging research and creative strategies […]

While the CDF documents Community Action experience and the ESP is the candidate's means to communicate Community Action skills, the examination is the method to demonstrate mastery of the knowledge base expected of Community Action leaders. Objectives: Identify the route to qualifying to sit for the examination Understand the online testing methods and types of […]

Join Community Action National Partners CAP, CAPLAW and NASCSP for a weekly update on the impact of COVID-19 on the network, every Thursday at 3 ET / 2 CT / 1 MT / 12 PT  (3 AST / 10 AKST / 9 HST). NCAF will participate as schedules allow. The content for these national partner calls […]

The Community Needs Assessment (CNA) is an important part of planning for Community Action in response to local community needs and resources. Part of this CNA process includes data collection that is traditionally done in-person, such as focus groups, key informant interviews, or town hall meetings. Modifications that can be made to the CNA process will be discussed, as well as techniques for data prioritization as agencies are juggling both long-standing and crisis needs. In addition, this webinar will review the COVID-19 Community Assessment Update Template & Data Resource Guide as one option for a tool to update the CNA to assist with identifying needs to address in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Join Community Action National Partners CAP, CAPLAW and NASCSP for a weekly update on the impact of COVID-19 on the network, every Thursday at 3 ET / 2 CT / 1 MT / 12 PT  (3 AST / 10 AKST / 9 HST). NCAF will participate as schedules allow. The content for these national partner […]

Join in on this webinar hosted by the National Community Action Partnership and the National Community Action Foundation.  CAAs and other LIHEAP agencies foresee a coming tsunami of debt.  A few states have enlightened debt-management and forgiveness policies. If yours is not one of them, this presentation by John Howat, Senior Energy Analyst with the […]

Community Action Agencies all across the country are on the front-lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing critical services for your communities in the midst of a life-threatening situation. Being a highly-responsive social service professional in these times can cause a considerable amount of personal stress, and both acute and secondary trauma, while working with our […]

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