Providing crisis intervention programs requires several assumptions. Families at risk of becoming homeless often do not request help until it is too late. Families in crisis need to be stabilized before other services will be effective. Existing community services are uncoordinated. Adults in targeted families lack basic life skills.
Affordable housing is unavailable in the community.
Appropriate job training and educational services will help prevent homelessness. The task of St. Tammany Parish Community Action Agency is to devise programs that ensure the coordination of programs with other community organizations both public and private so that clients will receive delivery of services and grasp the basic concepts of what issues lead them to receive help. Using this as a guiding tool, St. Tammany Parish Community Action Agency strives to attain the following achievements. Foster positive public perceptions of the low income community of the Parish and the relationship of St. Tammany Parish Community Action Agency to this community. Increase and strengthen the employment opportunities through information and referral.