Programs

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Program: Assessment and Resolution Energy Counseling
Description: HACAP’s Assessment and Resolution Energy Counseling program (A&R Program) is established in order to provide energy efficiency education, budget counseling and incentives for qualified households.

Program: CACFP - Homes
Description: Nutritious meals are a fundamental need for all people, especially for growing children. Good nutrition promotes age-specific development and learning. It provides children with the building blocks necessary for maturation.

Program: CCR & R
Description: Child Care Resource & Referral has grown into a nationwide network of community-based agencies, which provide a consistent set of core services to parents, child care providers, employers and communities.

Program: Crisis Child Care
Description: Crisis Child Care offers safe shelter for children in during times of family crisis. Care is provided in the homes of experienced and trained providers.

Program: Embrace Iowa
Description: Embrace Iowa is an annual program that provides a benefit for up to $500 for emergency relief. Relief is awarded between December 15th and January 15th.

Program: Energy Assistance
Description: Energy Assistance program provides energy crisis and bill payment assistance to elderly, disabled and low-income households.

Program: Family and Community Health Alliance
Description: HACAP understands the importance of meeting health and nutritional needs during critical times of developmental growth. We provide a variety of services for maternal, infant and child health.

Program: Food Reservoir
Description: As a member of America's Second Harvest, the Nation's Food Bank Network, the HACAP Food Reservoir channels donated products to area soup kitchens, pantries, senior & child care centers, drug & alcohol centers and other non-profit food programs that feed the needy.

Program: Head Start
Description: HACAP focuses on early child development to provide essential resources to children during a critical time of growth.

Program: Homeless Children's Trust
Description: The Homeless Children's Trust, organized and run by volunteers, provides temporary assistance to homeless children in order to minimize the risks of educational and social failure associated with homelessness.

Program: PACES
Description: The PACES Providers program strengthens the quality and expands the availability of child care for families with infants and toddlers within Linn County.

Program: Permanent Housing
Description: HACAP manages a number of apartments and single-family dwellings for low-income families with children in the Linn county area.

Program: Permanent Housing for Chronically Homeless Individuals
Description: This program is designed to provide safe long-term housing for homeless individuals currently living in places not designed for human habitation.

Program: Quality Early Childhood Environments
Description: The mission of the Quality Early Childhood Environments(QECE) involves the improvement of locally licensed center-based child care.

Program: Rural Senior Services
Description: HACAP Senior Services currently provides meals, medical information, medical equipment loans and some property maintenance services for residents of Benton County sixty or more years of age.

Program: Senior Employment Services
Description: HACAP works with seniors interested in retooling their job skills and training through the Senior Internship Program (SIP) to foster their economic self-sufficiency, and enjoy the benefits of unsubsidized employment in the private or public sector.

Program: Transitional Housing
Description: The program offers support services to families to assist them toward their goal of self-sufficiency and establishing a permanent housing situation for them and their families.

Program: Weatherization
Description: The Weatherization Assistance Program works to reduce personal utility costs by improving the housing stock of low-income individuals and families.

Program: WIC
Description: WIC is a public health program that serves pregnant and postpartum women, and children under the age of five. WIC provides nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals to other health-care agencies.