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Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. SRCAA will continue to provide various educational workshops and training mechanisms to empower low- income families and individuals. The overall goal of SRCAA is to assist low- income individuals to gain a sense of ownership and a stake in their community while strengthening their families. The agency will continue to be an active member of state and national associations that advocate on behalf of low- income families to eradicate poverty. 4. Describe how your agency plans to make more effective use of, coordinate and form partnerships with other organizations and programs including: State welfare reform efforts; public and private resources; religious organizations, charitable groups, and community organizations. SRCAA staff, program managers and the Executive Director participate on relevant Boards, Committees and planning entities in both Rowan and Cabarrus Counties such as the NC Workforce Development Board, and sponsored managers and partners meetings which include Department of Social Services' managers, the Salisbury and East Spencer Housing Authority partner meetings, Goodwill Industries' Business Advisory Board, Goodwill Industries' and Wal -Mart sponsored Operation Good Jobs partner meetings, the Project Re- Entry, and Project Safe partners meetings to name a few. Our agency will continue to increase our visibility and our impact by forming new partnerships with organizations and continuing to host Community Forums. Additionally in this program year, SRCAA commenced a partnership with the Veterans Administrations (VA) Medical Center in an effort to assist veterans referred through the Compensated Work Therapy (CWT) program. Also partnering in the effort is NC Workforce Development Veteran's Representatives. SRCAA and the VA Medical Center are progressing towards finalizing the partnership through a formal Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). SRCAA also solidified several other partnerships with formal MOU's for both Rowan and Cabarrus County that include The Department of Social Services and several for profit entities to help meet the needs of participants such as: Dollar General, O'Reilly's Auto Parts, and Homewood Suites (providing reduced rates for homeless families). These partnerships validate how relationships and collaborations between public - private and nonprofit organizations can address and reduce barriers to poverty for community residents. Finally, SRCAA is progressing towards identifying and partnering with already established Latino organizations in our two service counties and other non - profit and public entities that have Hispanic families as their consumers. Forums, advertisement, word -of- mouth, Heritage and Community events sponsored by SRCAA and other organizations will be targeted to increase and improve those partnerships with the goal of enrolling more Latino families. The addition of the multicultural consultant during the 2014 -2015 program year added a dimension of active and increased recruitment of 50 Hispanic families who were waitlisted in our program. 5. Describe how your agency will establish linkages between governmental and other social services programs to assure the effective delivery of such services to low- income individuals, to avoid the duplication of such services and to fill identified gaps in services, through the provision of information, referrals, case management and follow -up consultations. Collaboration with our local Departments of Human Services, Divisions of Workforce Development, Rowan Helping Ministries, Cooperative Christian Ministries, Goodwill Industries, the Salvation Army, and various faith -based and nonprofit organizations, enables SRCAA to serve, refer and minimize the duplication of services. By sitting on committees such as the Workforce Development Board monthly, staff are keenly aware of services provided by other agencies and organizations. Fiscal Year 2016 -17 Community Services Block Grant Application Page 10 of 28 Attachment number 2 \n F -11 Page 296