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Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency ROMA Goal 5 and 6 DHHS Excels -Goals 1 and 5 Agencies increase their capacity to achieve results; Low - income Manage resources that provide an elevated level of effective people, especially vulnerable populations, achieve their potential and efficient delivery of services and programs to North by strengthening family and other support systems Carolinians; Provide services and protection to individuals and families experiencing serious health and safety needs who are not, at least temporarily, able to assist themselves. Describe activities that your agency has undertaken or plans to undertake, on an emergency basis, for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foods, and related services, as may be necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among low- income individuals. Salisbury -Rowan Community Action Agency, Inc. has established partnerships with local food banks, churches, and nonprofit organizations. Referrals are given to the participants to obtain emergency food assistance as well as referrals to the local Department of Social Services for the Food and Nutrition Program. We also offer food and nutrition workshops hosted by the North Carolina Cooperative Extension. SRCAA staff ensure that income eligible participants are enrolled in SNAP; for those that are not eligible, when a need arises and food banks are not a resource, we provide emergency assistance. Describe how your agency will coordinate the provision of employment and training activities with entities providing activities through statewide and local workforce investment systems under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. SRCAA, Inc. will continue to contract with Centralina Workforce Development Board to provide WIA Title I youth services in Rowan and Cabarrus counties. The WIA youth services include: academic learning, work experience, summer employment opportunities, and other related supportive services. Connected through the local Workforce Investment System, SRCAA, Inc. will continue to connect with other youth resources. Those resources include the local Job Link Career Center, Department of Human Services, Health Department, Public Schools, Community Colleges, Juvenile Services, and Vocational Rehabilitation. These resources are used as a connection to all available community resources. Connections with employment and training activities will provide interventions and a direct link to the labor market. For adults in our program that are eligible for adult and dislocated worker services referrals are made to the local DWS offices. ROMA Goal 4 and 6 DHHS Excels -Goal 5 Partnerships among supporters and providers of services to Provide services and protection to individuals and families low- income people are achieved; Low - income people, especially experiencing serious health and safety needs who are not, at vulnerable populations, achieve their potential by strengthening least temporarily, able to assist themselves. family and other support systems 9. Describe how your agency will ensure coordination with the emergency energy crisis intervention program under title XXVI (relating to low- income home energy assistance). SRCAA, Inc. has a Weatherization / HARRP Program and will continue to coordinate services to participants in Rowan County to save on their overall energy cost. Referrals will also be given to participants to enroll in the Crisis Intervention Program through the Department of Human Services, Cooperative Christian Ministries, Rowan Helping Ministries, and Salvation Army. Fiscal Year 2013 -14 Community Services Block Grant Application Page 11 of 42 Attachment number 1 F -6 Page 75