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Salisbury Rowan Community Action Agency Community Services Block Grant Program Fiscal Year 2014 -15 Application for Funding OEO Form 210 Agency Strategy for Eliminating Poverty Planning Period: 71112013- 613012016_ Section I: Identification of the Problem (use additional sheets if necessary) 1. Give the Poverty Cause name, rank the poverty cause(s) and identify which one(s) the agency will address. Assess poverty needs and conditions within the community facing low - income participants related to a) no or underemployment, b) little or no education or vocational skills and c) no or substandard housing. SRCAA will provide supportive services for families or individuals to develop skills and increased income so they may rise above the income poverty level. SRCAA Family Services will use the Family Development approach to partner with participants and the community to: Develop /Sustain a strategy to address those needs, both immediate and longer term, in the context of existing resources and opportunities in the community; Identify specific outcomes to be achieved among low- income people and the community; and Organize and implement program services, and activities, such as advocacy, support and guidance within the agency and among "partnering" organizations, to achieve anticipated results. 2, Describe the poverty cause(s) in detail in the community with appropriate statistical data. Explain why the problem exists. Identify the segment of the population and give the number of people experiencing the problem. Explain how the persons are adversely affected. The population of North Carolina is estimated to be 9,656, 401 in 2011 according to the census bureau. Rowan County's population estimate is 138, 019 and Cabarrus County which is more densely populated is 181,468. The median income in NC is $46,291 and is lower in Rowan than Cabarrus by over $11,000. Rowan County's median income is $43,121 and Cabarrus County's median income is $54,280. For the purposes of this grant whose participants must be income eligible, 16.9% of Rowan's population is below the poverty level and only 11.9% of Cabarrus is under the poverty level. With regard to race, 72% of North Carolinians are White, 22% are Black and 9% are of Hispanic or Latino origin. In Rowan 80% are White, 17% are Black and 8% are of Hispanic origin. In Cabarrus 80% are White, 16% are Black and 10% are of Hispanic origin. As of November 2012, the opposite demographic is true. 88% of our participants are Black, 10% are White and only one family self - identified as Hispanic. Approximately half were employed, about 40% were unemployed and 90% of them are renting. These demographics depict the constituents who are most in need of the services in these two counties. The Fiscal Year 2094 -15 Community Services Block Grant Application Page 18 of 49 Attachment number 2 G -2 Page 286