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Helping People. Changing Lives.
Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency Mission Statement:
Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency is committed to improving the health and welfare of the less fortunate through a variety of services and community partnerships to ensure self-sufficiency and economic stability.
Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency, Inc., a private, non-profit agency, is the area’s largest community-based organization (CBO). The LCCAA governing board is composed of the county judge/executive (or their representative) from each county, persons chosen by a democratic selection process to be representative of our low-income population and representatives of the private sector to include business, industry, labor, religious, welfare, education or other major groups interested in the community. Programmatic planning and decisions originate from local community action councils and are implemented by administrative staff on a regional basis to eliminate the causes and conditions of poverty.
Thousands of people in the ten-county Lake Cumberland area are either unemployed or under-employed. This low-income population has been excluded from economic and social opportunities which could help them in attaining self-sufficiency and improved living conditions. LCCAA provides the tools and encouragement to empower low-income people to confront and overcome those obstacles.
LCCAA operates a comprehensive array of programs to open educational/training and employment opportunities, remove obstacles, coordinate private sector groups and mobilize community resources to effectively assist low-income people achieve greater economic self-sufficiency. Programs are designed with flexibility to respond to immediate individual needs. LCCAA recognizes that an employable workforce, along with employment opportunities which offer a sustaining wage, are equally vital to maximizing the level of success that can and will be achieved.
Community Action Agencies (CAAs) are nonprofit private and public organizations established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America’s War on Poverty. Community Action Agencies help people to help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency. Today there are approximately 1000 Community Action Agencies, serving the poor in every state as well as Puerto Rico and the Trust Territories.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC REVIEW
Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency, Inc.’s Central Office is located at 23 Industry Drive, Jamestown, KY. Beginning April 21, 2023, the Community Service Block Grant Plan is available for review during regular office hours of 8:00 & 4:30 CST. This project is funded, in part, under a contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services with funds from the Community Service Block Grant of the U.S. Department of Health and Family Services. Lake Cumberland Community Action Agency, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.