In order to reduce poverty in its community, a Community Action Agency works to better focus available local, state, private and federal resources to assist low-income individuals and families to acquire useful skills and knowledge, gain access to new opportunities and achieve economic self-sufficiency.

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Welcome to Springfield Partners for Community Action
The agency providing services and advocacy to alleviate the conditions of poverty for area residents.

What is a Community Action Agency?
Community Action Agencies are private non-profit or public organizations that were created by the federal government in 1964 to combat poverty in geographically designated areas. Status as a Community Action Agency is the result of an explicit designation by local or state government. A Community Action Agency has a tripartite board structure that is designed to promote the participation of the entire community, including elected public officials, private sector representatives, and especially low-income residents, in assessing local needs and attacking the causes and conditions of poverty.

Purpose and Mission
In order to reduce poverty in its community, a Community Action Agency works to better focus available local, state, private and federal resources to assist individuals and families of low-income to acquire useful skills and knowledge, gain access to new opportunities and achieve economic self-sufficiency.

Why Community Action Agencies are Unique
Most poverty-related organizations focus on a specific area of need, such as job training, health care, housing, or economic development. Community Action Agencies reach out to low-income people in their communities, address their multiple needs through a comprehensive approach, develop partnerships with other community organizations, involve low-income clients in the agency's operations, and administer a full range of coordinated programs designed to have a measurable impact on poverty.