Central Vermont Community Action Council
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Central Vermont Community Action Council or CVCAC is a non-profit community agency
in Washington, Lamoille and Orange Counties founded in 1965 to help people achieve economic sufficiency through individual and family development. The administrative offices are in Barre.
The agency administers a Head Start program.
The agency advises micro-businesses in the process of starting up.
An outreach department assists low income residents in getting help they need by referrals, advocacy and case management.
They provide workforce training and development to people who have significant barriers to employment.
In 2008, the Executive Director earned $95,750
; Juvenile restorative program ensuring youths responsible make restitution as required; street checkers on probabationers; street (peer) outreach; and Teen Center. These were discontinued.
Community Action Agencies
In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program , which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty.CAAs...
in Washington, Lamoille and Orange Counties founded in 1965 to help people achieve economic sufficiency through individual and family development. The administrative offices are in Barre.
The agency administers a Head Start program.
The agency advises micro-businesses in the process of starting up.
An outreach department assists low income residents in getting help they need by referrals, advocacy and case management.
They provide workforce training and development to people who have significant barriers to employment.
In 2008, the Executive Director earned $95,750
History
In 2008, CVCAC maintained several services for youths: transition services from foster care and for the homeless; program for runaways; court diversion for non-violent crimes; Vermont Youth Development Corps/AmericorpsAmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a U.S. federal government program that was created under President Bill Clinton by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and later expanded by 50 percent under President George W. Bush...
; Juvenile restorative program ensuring youths responsible make restitution as required; street checkers on probabationers; street (peer) outreach; and Teen Center. These were discontinued.