Program areas at SCDCAP
Housing:cap's housing programs provided stability to over 690 households a year through services such as emergency, transitional, rapid, rehousing and permanent housing programs. These households consisted of a total of 1565 persons. The program also provides assistance for homeless, short-term assistance, homeless prevention, and other wrap around services to assist persons in need of housing.
Food programs:the food & nutrition programs include food shelf and senior nutrition. The food shelf utilizes a client-choice model to provide a 10-day supply of food each calendar month. The food shelf also delivers food to senior housing buildings and provides pop-up food distributions in Scott, Carver and Dakota counties. The food shelf provided 110,750 residents with 2,550,488 pounds of food. The senior nutrition program continues to provide affordable, well-balanced meals to elderly and disabled persons in congregate settings and home delivered meals to home bound individuals. Senior nutrition provided 128,957 nutritious, hot mid-day meals to 1,084 seniors throughout Scott, Carver and Dakota counties.
Child education:head start is a birth to five program that promotes shool readiness for low-income children while supporting the development of the whole child. The program provides center-based education, social services, health, and nutrition services to 186 children, ages 3-4 years old, living in Scott, Carver, and Dakota counties. In addition, the program operates an early head start home visiting model for pregnant women and children birth - 3 years old. Early head start serves 81 children and their families.in our 2022-23 program year, on average, 76% of our 3 and 4-year-old children met or exceeded in their developmental outcomes. The developmental areas assessed in our program were in social/emotional skills, cognitive, language, literacy, mathematics, and physical development. Of the children enrolled in our program, 100% are up to date on medical and dental exams. Also,100% of our head start families participated in a goal setting process resulting in a family partnership agreement.
Energy program: the energy assistance program helps eligible households with energy bill payment assistance, home energy crisis intervention, outreach, energy advocacy, information about utility consumer rights, and referrals. Energy assistance program provided support to 19,076 households in Scott, Carver and Dakota counties.
Other program services: chore program assisted 210 seniors with house cleaning, yard work, snow removal, and minor home repair and modification, to assist seniors with aging in place in Scott, Carver and Dakota counties.
Community programs: the community programs provides case management and resource navigation to families participating in the following services: parents helping parents, crisis nursery, and mental health education events. Seasonal support includes backpack distribution, hope for the holidays for families and seniors, soccer programming, dia de los ninos, and eid celebration. The community service programs provided support to 4,468 individuals in Scott, Carver and Dakota counties.