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Causes: Homeless & Housing, Housing Development, Construction & Management
Mission: Oregon coast community action (orcca) provides services and resources; helping people in need, fostering self-sufficiency, and empowering individuals and families.
Programs: Youth services: supports families with children in their quest for a brighter future. Head start and court appointed special advocates are two of the programs in this department. Youth services provide activities for children that help them grow mentally, socially, emotionally, and physically while supporting parents as the first and most important teacher of their children.
essential services: strives to provide families with help up and out of poverty through a network of programs that feed, house, warm, and educate people.
child and family resource center: houses seven head start classrooms, parent education rooms, teacher workspace, commercial kitchen, client resource and intake rooms for the essential services department, and space for head start and orcca support services. The site on thomas street offers opportunities for green space, natural landscaping, and the design makes the most of environmentally friendly features in keeping with the beautiful forested site.