Wisconsin Community Action Program Association Incorporated

Housing programs: responding to the threat of foreclosure brought on by the pandemic, wiscap collaborated with the Wisconsin department of administration and the office of the state treasurer to create the Wisconsin help for homeowners (whh) Program, a statewide effort to keep covid-impacted households in their homes. Program services include legal aid to prevent foreclosure, hud-certified counseling, and up to $40,000 in financial assistance to cure covid-related delinquencies for eligible applicants. In 2022, 4196 homeowners in 71 of Wisconsin's 72 counties received $28,470,882.37 to assist them in staying in their homes. In 2022, wiscap member agencies addressed housing stabilization through the Wisconsin emergency rental assistance Program (wera). Through this Program, over $139.5 million in emergency rent was distributed to nearly 32,000 households

Health programs: the Wisconsin department of health services and division of public health partnered with wiscap and seven of our member agencies to address vaccine hesitancy and barriers by increasing education and outreach for the covid-19 vaccine.

Training and development:these programs are designed to increase the capacity of the 18 Community service block grant-funded entities in Wisconsin to produce and achieve intended results. The training programs strengthen the organizational, financial, and Program capacity of participants and enhances and sustains their ability to plan, deliver, manage and evaluate programs to produce intended results for low-income people in Wisconsin. In 2022, Wisconsin Community Action Program Association, Incorporated (wiscap) organized and administered 1 large conference, the poverty matters conference. Attendance for the 2-day conference included over 250 registered participants, speakers, sponsors and exhibitors. Wiscap also planned and organized the wiscap annual training conference done virtually in may for staff of our 18 member agencies. This annual conference had 18 individual training sessions with 200 participants. Wiscap also sponsors quarterly meetings of its board of directors.

Asset development programs: provide assistance to low-income entrepreneurs to create jobs through the job & business development Program (jbd) by starting new businesses or expanding existing businesses. Despite the lingering impacts of the covid-19 pandemic, the 2022 jbd Program created 42 new full-time jobs at 31 newly launched small businesses, preserved 44 jobs at existing businesses, and helped small business owners access $901,338 in business loan and grant funding in 2022. Caas provided technical assistance to businesses in a variety of sectors including food service, childcare, personal services, pet care, and retail. Wiscap was awarded $600,000 in wioa funding to provide jbd participating agencies, and newcap, with additional funds to create jobs through business start-up and expansion. Wiscap was awarded $4.8 million as part of the wedc's workforce innovation grant (wig) in late june of 2022. The purpose of this funding is to support sustainable workforce development solutions.

Food security programs:twelve caas and eight non-caa partners distributed 13.5 million pounds of tefap commodities worth $16.5 million to 338 food pantries, meal sites, and shelters statewide in 2022. Tefap core resources were supplemented with 'build back better' foods to help mitigate nutritional hardship during the pandemic. In addition to meat, fruit, vegetables, juice, cereals, grains, and pasta, families also received fresh produce, shell eggs, and fresh milk. Network food pantries report distributing 60.5 million pounds of food from all sources combined to an average of 148,000 people each month a 10% increase over last year. In addition, the 71 meal sites and shelters in the network served a monthly average of 1,607,000 meals, 12% more than the year before. Wiscap has managed logistics and data collection for the tefap network since 1998, which has distributed 316 million pounds of federal commodities to food-insecure wisconsinites.

Crisis counseling programs