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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: The mission of heartland community action agency, inc. Is building stronger communities by providing opportunities that empower people in need.
Programs: Child education:head start/early head start combines state of the art early childhood learning research with decades of family development experience to deliver school readiness - one family at a time. In 2014, heartland provided head start services to 272 children and their families, while early head start served 45 children and families. Early head start/head start's success is based on the creation of compassionate partnerships between staff and parents on behalf of their young children.
weatherization and energy assistance:energy assistance: assists households in meeting heating fuel costs and providing furnace repair. Weatherization: provides energy conservation improvements to reduce heating and cooling expenses through measures such as insulation, heating systems and consumer education. This program served approximately 3,250 households in 2014.
community services:provides a combination of services including community resources information and referral, advocacy, parenting skills, transportation, food support assistance and healthcare enrollment. Heartland served 1,860 households in 2014.
homeless and housing and food programs.