Emergency shelter and meals, rent and utility assistance, federal food commodities, personal hygiene items, clothing, furniture, housewares and scholarships are provided. These services are based on income eligibility. Referrals are accepted. Each county has a local Job Training Center that conducts participant eligibility assessment, testing, counseling and private sector job development and training programs with local businesses and educational facilities. Serves Adams, Brown, Pike and Schuyler Counties.
Program puts young workers in dozens of non-profit agencies.
Designed to provide summer work experience for disadvantaged youth between the ages of 14 and 21. Income guidelines determine eligibility. About ten hours of that time is spent in the classroom learning life skills. This can be done by insulating attics, floors, sidewalls, replacing broken glass, windows and doors, and sealing cracks throughout the structure. Also have heating contractors check and clean the heating systems, install energy saving devices, make minor repairs or in some cases replace the heating system.