CSBG Pilot Programs
Indiana Community Action Agencies (CAAs) have been able to expand their programs and services to address more of their local community’s needs with ARRA funding allowing Indiana’s locally run CAAs to serve more than 450,000 individuals and to date have created more than 1,600 new jobs in Indiana. As a result, many meaningful projects were created in
Indiana.
Local, known and trusted, Indiana’s CAAs strengthen families, neighborhoods and cities all across Indiana. The narratives below encapsulate a handful of successful projects produced by the Indiana Community Action Network in the Hoosier state using ARRA funds.
Community Action of Northeast Indiana (CANI)
CANI, in Fort Wayne concentrated on health
insurance, self-sufficiency, and small lending
administration.Covering Kids and Families is a program with the
goal to provide access to health insurance for
low-income families and to build a coalition of health
care providers to care for them.
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Northwestern Indiana Community Action Corporation (NWICA)
NWICA, located near Chicago, used the bulk of their
ARRA allocation in excess of $1.5 million to employ
587 young people from ages 14 to 24 in a host of
non-profi t agencies and governmental organizations
for the summer.
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Human Services, Inc. (HSI)
HSI, located in Columbus managed a financial
literacy education course with ARRA funds. One
hundred and twenty-three people completed the
course. One of the success stories was of a couple with two teenage children, one with cognitive disabilities and one with behavioral problems that had trouble with the law.
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Community Action Program of Evansville and Vanderburgh County, Inc (CAPE)
Along with other types of assistance, CAPE utilized a
portion of ARRA funding to assist customers where
their current or new employers required specific
uniforms and/or footwear. Staff was able to assist 106
customers with uniforms and/or footwear, such as
steel-toed boots, in order for them to either gain
employment or retain employment.
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Human Services, Inc. (HSI)
This client was referred to the program by Human Services Continuum of Care Program. She is the single mother of two young children. She has been on public assistance off and on for years with some limited success in holding employment. When she came to the EAFSSP Program, she had recently been laid-off once again from a factory job through a temporary employment office. She was not eligible for unemployment and was having difficulty being placed through other temporary agencies because she did not have her high school diploma or GED.
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Area Five Agency on Aging & Community Services, Inc.
With ARRA Funding Area Five Agency had the amazing opportunity to provide Mobile Food Pantries at least once per month throughout our serviceable counties to families in need. We partnered with Food Finders Food Bank, Lafayette, IN, and introduced this program in January 2010. The Mobile Food Pantry brings fresh produce, dairy, meat, baked goods, and other essential food to various sites and we meet client’s needs right where they live and work.
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