East Bay Community Action Program

Head start and early head start to promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of low-income children, including children on federally recognized reservations and children of migratory farm workers, through the provision of comprehensive health, educational, nutritional, social and other services, and to involve parents in their children's learning and to help parents make progress toward their educational, literacy, and employment goals. Head start also emphasizes the significant involvement of parents in the administration of their local head start programs.

Health, dental and behavioral health services to improve the health of the nation's underserved communities and vulunerable populations by assuring access to comprehensive, culturally competent, quality primary health care services. Individual health center grant mechanisms include Community health centers.

Housing and energy to make low-income home energy assistance Program (liheap)grants available to states and other jurisdictions to assist eligible households to meet the costs of home energy. Supplemental leveraging incentive funds may be awarded to reward states and other jurisdictions that provide additional benefits and services to liheap-eligible households beyond what could be provided with federal funds. Up to 25 percent of the leveraging incentive funds may be set aside for liheap grantees that provide services through community-based nonprofit organizations to help liheap-eligible households reduce their energy vulunerability under the residential energy assistance challenge (reach).

Social services.