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Community action agency assistance programs in Kentucky
Struggling individuals in Kentucky can receive help from a community action agency. They offer programs that can help pay rent or energy bills while arranging social services that will assist people with overcoming poverty.
The goal is to offer emergency help with long term self-sufficiency, including job training.
Financial help from Kentucky community action
Community action agency assistance programs in Kentucky:
Learn how to get help from a community action that is in your Kentucky County. Clients will be able to look into a wide variety of services offered by these non-profit agencies. Case managers will assist and empower low-income families. Specifically, some of what may be available from grants includes Low-Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program, money for emergency food, financial literacy, car repairs or gasoline cards for work and more.
Financial help from Kentucky community action The:
Education, employment counseling, and job training
Weatherization Assistance Program
can provide permanent help to low income families with reducing their utility bills and energy costs by improving the energy efficiency of homes. First, audits are conducted to determine which conservation measures are most cost effective and appropriate for the home in question. Side benefits of the program being weatherization can also address health and safety issues as it was created to improve efficiency and household safety for low-income families with children, seniors and the elderly.
It can keep families cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and in general safe all year long. Some of what the program can do includes replace doors and windows, add insulation, or perform minor energy type home repairs such as roofs, floors, plumbing or electrical systems.
As funding allows, it may also repair or replace heating equipment. Wintercare
is offered across Kentucky by your local Community Action Agency. Contributions from people in the community are received by utility companies and used to pay electric bills and re-connection fees. All donations received by a company will go directly to benefit clients. In addition, a community action agency can refer clients to other
Mortgage, housing, and credit counseling services
Kentucky utility bill assistance programs for their needs.
Rent payment help in Kentucky from Community Action Agencies is available. The locations can can direct families to: Kentucky Homeless Prevention and Rapid Rehousing programs . These help tenants or homeowners that are facing homeless from both financial aid and counseling.
The homeless can also get grants, security deposit help, and emergency shelters too. People that are currently leasing a home or apartment, or a mobile home lot, can get money to help them pay their rent.
Heating bill assistance is offered from LIHEAP . It is a federally funded program to help eligible working poor and low income households pay their home heating and gas bills during the winter.
Grants are available, as funding allows, until March. The subsidy provides a one-time per year payment for heating costs. Payment amounts are determined by your income, family size, and type of heat used in the home. There is an emergency/crisis component of LIHEAP as well, and this operates from January until March.
Applicants must meet be in a crisis situation. This includes they need to be faced with an imminent loss of heating energy (such as disconnection), need to have four or fewer days worth of fuel oil, propane, kerosene, wood or coal available. Also, if you are faced with eviction from unpaid energy bills, then LIHEAP in Kentucky may be called upon for that.
Transportation may be offered for those struggling individuals that do not have a Medicaid card, including the disabled. A free ride can be provided to a doctor appointment or a local hospital. Or locate other
transportation programs for the disabled Home repairs
Location of Kentucky agencies
may be coordinated by community action agencies. Seniors in Kentucky may receive a long term, low interest loan to pay for improvements to their home. The focus is on addressing health and/or safety issues that the homeowner must be facing. Assistance can spruce up homes of the elderly and/or person with disabilities who need a little help.
Several non-profits also assemble volunteers to do some of this work. This is often known as Home Rehabilitation. Participants must meet income guidelines in order to qualify, have a clear deed to the property, and be willing to make a monthly mortgage payment if need be. Prescription assistance
, in particular discounts, may be provided. Centers can assist qualified clients and families who have no prescription drug coverage obtain free medications. Some services will even allow individuals with Medicare Part D plans to be eligible. Many Kentucky families lack prescription drug insurance coverage.
There are also discount cards as well as government programs that can help, including Medicaid or patient assistance programs. These can all help lower income families get the medications they need.
Find other resources, even including website directories for free medications The: Commodity Supplemental Food Program offers a monthly package of free food and groceries to help supplement the nutritional needs of clients.
A main goal of the USDA approved CSFP program is to help low-income pregnant or post-partum women, senior citizens, children under the age of six, and newborns. Home Delivered, Congregate, and also Home Care Meals are all offered for seniors. These resources provide people an opportunity to receive a free meal and also participate in activities and informational sessions.
Centers may hold health fairs, budgeting workshops, and similar activities, with the long term goal of feeding seniors. Find other food programs for seniors
Many of the meals are served at Senior Citizens Centers, which also provide older adults who are aged sixty years and older with activities such as socialization, exercise programs, and general recreation.
Members can also participate in educational and health screening programs. Or senior citizens can receive advocacy, counseling, homemaker, outreach, and legal assistance from Kentucky attorneys.
Meals on Wheels or Home-Delivered Meals
More local community programs
is arranged by agencies and it is available for the elderly in Kentucky that are homebound. Community Action Agency, working with volunteers, deliver meals to those who are not able to cook for themselves or shop. Ride programs
are often part of this service or other local resources too. As some community action agencies will ensure the homebound or job seekers in Kentucky have a way to get around to the doctor, stores, a interview, or a family member. This is sometimes part of the Meals on Wheels service or a separate free ride program
Education, employment counseling, and job training:
Community action agencies also offer state as well as federal government employment and training programs. They combine them all under one roof, and clients can benefit. One service is known as JobSight
. Some of the services for job seekers include career planning, job placement, skills assessment, G.E.D. courses, vocational rehabilitation, education and other training information. Many locations also include a Career Resource Center where job seekers can get information about labor markets, prepare a resume, use a computer to access the internet to look for employment, and more Read Kentucky training programs Free computer coding classes are offered by non-profits.
It is done in an effort to retrain the workforce in Kentucky and/or to allow residents to get new skills. Learn everything such as software development, networking, engineering, website development and other computer programming skills.
They will generally allow people to gain a new and/or better paying job. Find free computer coding from non-profits The: WIA Youth Program
provides guidance and assistance to in-school and out-of-school participants ages 16-21. Kentucky requires that applicants must be academically juniors or seniors and need help in transitioning into post-secondary school or employment opportunities.
Employment assistance and career counseling is also provided to individuals who are out-of-school and do not exceed the age of 21. The program provides eligible customers the right combination of tools and knowledge to become successful and self-sufficient adults.
Some agencies participate in the: Educational Scholarship Program . This will assist eligible low-income individuals and students in the pursuit of post-secondary educational goals that will improve their income and hopefully quality of life. Stipends and cash grants are awarded to eligible individuals to assist in their educational pursuits and the money can be used to buy books, supplies, transportation, meals, child-care, pay for tuition and other necessary items.
Head Start and the very similar: Early Head Start programs are comprehensive child development services for infants, children, and pregnant women. The federal government funded program can offer high quality services designed to foster healthy development in children.
It can help with needs including education, health, parent involvement and social services. The outreach and training efforts have helped provide lower income parents with the knowledge and services they need.
A similar service offered in Kentucky is the: Migrant Head Start Network . This particular component provides comprehensive, holistic, and inclusive services including dental, medical, mental health, education, and nutrition services. Mortgage, housing, and credit counseling services: Homeownership Counseling can both help first time homebuyers, and also assist people who are faced with
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