Program areas at CAPCO
Early child development - provides educational, health, nutrition, dental, mental health and family services to 3-4 year old children and their families early head start provides the same supports to infants, toddlers and pregnant women. 217 children served.
Consumer directed personal assistance Program (cdpap) allows people with a disability live in the Community as independently as possible, and take an active, responsible role in planning their personal care needs. These services can include basic housekeeping, personal care, or high level nursing services. Cdpap also provides employment opportunities for personal care aides. 144 individuals served.
Energy services provides resources and services that ensure homes are more energy efficient, help reduce energy costs and make the home a healthy and safe place to live. Energy saving measures provided to homes include insulation, heating systems, hot water tank systems, air sealing, inspecting combustion appliances, testing efficiency of refrigerators, installing co & smoke detectors, and a health and safety check of the home.
Wic - women infants & children is a supplemental nutrition and education Program for infants, children and pregnant or breast feeding women. The Program provides nutritious foods, nutrition education, and breast feeding counseling to 1,660 women and children ages birth to five years old wic is effective in improving health of pregnant women, new mothers and their infants.
Family development - develops and provides resources and supports to encourage strong and healthy families. This Program helps people recognize their strengths, identify needed resources and the means to access them with an emphasis on asset development to include budgeting, fiscal literacy, nutrition, parent support and education, life skills and meeting basic needs. This Program provides fiscal literacy workshops, parents with hope groups, 2 family resource centers, family essentials that provides clothes, household items and other necessities at no cost, cooking classes, summer youth employment opportunities, free income tax filings and other opportunities.