From the Massachusetts Association for Community Action, these updates include online opportunities through MASSCAP and upcoming opportunities from organizations outside of Massachusetts.
From the Massachusetts Association for Community Action, these updates include online opportunities through MASSCAP and upcoming opportunities from organizations outside of Massachusetts.
MASSCAP video: #CommunityActionWorks – CAAs open and ready to serve in Massachusetts – Highlights of CAA efforts in MA during the COVID-19 pandemic – and more!
MASSCAP’s message on CAAs responding to the COVID-19 pandemic – MASSCAP’s State Budget Priorities – WCAC fuel assistance success story
Honoring our Champions – MASSCAP’s READYGO Initiative: Readying Educators And Developing Young Children for Great Outcomes – Public Programs Reduce Poverty (MASSCAP data) – MASSCAP’s State Funding Priorities
Updated MASSCAP report: Obstacles on the Road to Opportunity: Finding a Way Forward for the Children and Families of Massachusetts – Statewide kickoff of the VITA program and Earned Income Tax Assistance Awareness Day (Jan. 31) – Public Policy Briefing at the Massachusetts State House (Feb. 5)
Massachusetts Community Action Facts – MASSCAP’s four broad public policy goals – Summary of MASSCAP’s latest forum on poverty and opportunity held in conjunction with two CAAs – MASSCAP’s Comprehensive Job Readiness Curriculum Guide
Massachusetts Association for Community Action is holding an October 30th training session on Everyone is a Leader: A New Model for Identifying Your Leadership Skills.
Massachusetts Association for Community Action is holding an October 24th training session on No Wrong Door: Service Integration 101.
Help your agency prepare for your Community Assessment and Strategic Plan with these videos: (1) Community Action IMPACT: An Overview of ROMA, Community Assessment, and Strategic Planning and (2) Strategic Planning for Boards of Directors. In-person training is available for MA and other states.
Massachusetts Association for Community Action is holding a September 19th training session on Supporting Programs and Communities Through Effective Advocacy and Persuasion.
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has published its 2018 annual report: Finding the Way Forward Together.
Massachusetts Community Action Facts – 2018 MASSCAP Annual Report – MASSCAP’s top priorities were included the FY20 state budget – Sampling of MA CAA community initiatives – MASSCAP’s Comprehensive Job Readiness Curriculum Guide
Massachusetts Association for Community Action is holding an August 15th workshop on No Wrong Door: Service Integration 101.
Massachusetts Association for Community Action is holding a July 23rd workshop on Setting Professional Boundaries and Practicing Self Care with Customers and Colleagues in the Social Services Workplace.
Income Inequality in MA – MA state legislative items on Bridging the Wage Gap…Strengthening Families through Affordable & Accessible Early Education and Care…Creating a Foundation for Economic Opportunity – MASSCAP FY20 Public Policy Priorities – EHS success story – MASSCAP’s Comprehensive Job Readiness Curriculum Guide
MA Facts – MA state legislative items on Bridging the Wage Gap…Strengthening Families through Affordable & Accessible Early Education and Care…Creating a Foundation for Economic Opportunity – MASSCAP FY20 Public Policy Priorities – EHS success story
MASSCAP’s Coaching Tools and Practices for Case Managers and Counselors: PART 2 is being offered on June 14. This session will spend additional time on practicing vital coaching techniques by engaging in practical hands-on coaching activities.
Special Edition: Fight Poverty by Supporting VITA sites
MA Poverty Facts – The EITC and CTC have kept 150,000 people out of poverty in MA by helping them to bridge the wage gap – MASSCAP advocating for an increase in state funding for VITA by $800,000 = $10,000 for each of the 80 VITA sites
Massachusetts poverty facts and webinar recording – MASSCAP FY20 public policy priorities on Bridging the Wage Gap, Strengthening Families through Affordable & Accessible Early Education and Care and Creating a Foundation for Economic Opportunity – VITA & EITC success story – MA Supplemental Fuel Assistance allocation
MASSCAP training event being held on April 29. This session will help direct service staff develop skills and practice techniques to provide excellent, compassionate customer service.
Heating Help Programs Reduce Poverty: MASSCAP seeking $30M state resources for fuel assistance Warmth is a Necessity: Story of elderly couple living on fixed income.
Data on how public programs reduce poverty – MASSCAP promoting state funding in five priority areas – Collaboration Matters: MASSCAP’s 2019 VITA Kickoff – Continuing the Conversation
Establishing a Community Action Trust Fund is part of Massachusetts HD.783 (proposed): An Act to address inequality, promote opportunity, and end poverty. Plus MA State House News Service coverage and MASSCAP’s 2018 Poverty Report reflecting the long-lasting impact of anti-poverty policies.
The MASSCAP Training Center’s Leadership Development Institute was created to establish an internal structure for the development and retention of leaders within the Community Action network and across the human services field.
MASSCAP’s 2019 Art of Coaching training series builds upon the Coaching Tools and Practices course provided in 2018. Asking Empowering Questions – A Powerful Coaching Tool is the topic on January 17th.
MASSCAP ACTION ALERT: Urgent Need for Fuel Assistance – MASSCAP asks Gov. Baker and the state of MA for $30M in supplemental budget – Heating Help Programs reduce poverty – Heating Help Programs are Health and Safety Programs – Videos featuring Heating Help assistance recipient and Statewide Heating Help Programs Kickoff
Poverty Jeopardizes Health – Programs Remove Obstacles & Improve Health – Making a Difference: Focusing on the Social Determinants of Health – Continuing the Conversation
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has published its 2017 annual report to highlight the work of Massachusett’s Community Action Agencies.
Poverty is a story of low wage work – Ideas on addressing transportation challenges – Making Our Voices Heard: Ways to take action – Continuing the Conversation
Nancy Wagman, author of MASSCAP’s report: Obstacles on the Road to Opportunity: Finding a Way Forward – Policy choices from the past still have an impact today – Two positive steps toward equal opportunity – Continuing the conversation
The report – commissioned by MASSCAP and written by MassBudget – emphasizes that the future of Massachusetts depends on the success of our children.
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action’s Training Center is holding this training on March 22nd in Framingham, MA.
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has released a fact sheet outlining its FY19 public policy initiatives under four priority areas. A breakfast briefing is being held on February 6 at the Massachusetts State House.
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action’s FY18-FY20 Strategic Plan includes a summary of MASSCAP’s strategic planning process, three-year practical vision, and planned actions for each strategy.
Register now for this webinar being held on January 22.
The MASSCAP Training Center’s Leadership Development Institute was created to establish an internal structure for the development and retention of leaders within the Community Action network and across the human services field.
Springfield Partners for Community Action uses the Appreciative Inquiry Process for strategic planning that builds upon an organization’s underlying strengths and values to create a vision for the future building on what worked best in the past.
The Valley Opportunity Council’s Educational Opportunity Center provides families and individuals the educational tools necessary to succeed.
The Massachusetts Association for Community Action has published a Resource Guide on Establishing Effective Workforce Development Programs to help Community Action Agencies and others in their efforts to assist individuals in moving toward self-sufficiency.
Springfield Partners for Community Action established the Home Furnishings Program to help homeless families make the transition into permanent housing.
The Joint Coalition on Health is a group of committed individuals and organizations working collaboratively as catalysts for change and advocates for the underserved to improve the health and well-being of everyone in North Central Massachusetts.
Springfield Partners for Community Action sponsors KIDS DAY as a day of entertainment, educational information and fun experiences for preschool and school-aged children and their families. Proceeds from the event support the Champions of Character and Springfield Partners’ Scholarship Programs.
Springfield Partners for Community Action developed the Telephone Reassurance Program to help seniors and homebound/isolated adults maintain independent living.
The Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. developed the Worcester Community Connections Coalition to build neighborhood-based networks that support leadership development and parent advocacy in community planning activities and efforts to coordinate services.