York County Community Action Corp

Programs: Children's services - york county head start is a federally funded early childhood education program that works to enhance children's self-esteem and school readiness skills, and supports parents as the primary teachers of children. Early head start serves prenatal mothers and children up to age three, while head start serves children ages three to five. Head start and early head start programs also strive to ensure that each child is enrolled in a medical home and receives regular oral health care as a means to support mental and developmental preparedness for learning.

health services - nasson health care is a federally-qualified health center. Nasson operates three sites, its main operational site in springvale, noble high school student health center in north berwick and at the york county shelter programs, inc. In alfred. As a nationally-recognized patient-centered medical home, nasson provides a comprehensive range of primary care services for patients in all stages of life-from well baby check-ups to medicare wellness visits. Nasson's team-based approach ensures that patient care is well-coordinated care and addresses the patient's complete health and wellness picture. Behavioral health is fully integrated with primary care, including care management and other supportive services to help patients manage chronic conditions, and achieve their health and wellness goals. Nasson's dental program offers a large array of services, ranging from exams and cleanings, to restorative procedures, partials and emergency dental care.

transportation - transportation services help york county residents to be self-sufficient by providing transportation to community services and other destinations which they would otherwise not be able to reach. All of the transportation services are open to the general public. The sanford transit offers year round service from springvale to south sanford. The wave (wheels to access vocation & education) operates daily scheduled transportation between sanford-wells and sanford-biddeford. The shoreline explorer shuttle offers a year round shuttle service between sanford and wells. The shoreline explorer trolley is a seasonal service along the coast connecting york to kennebunk. Transportation also provides a limited amount of rides to medical appointments (including cancer treatment) through the privately-funded york county transport and connecting to cancer care programs. In addition, transportation maintains contracts with a small number of agencies, including child development services and the maine department of health and human services to provide non-emergency medical transportation to low-income residents.

other services provided by yccac include:wic - women, infants, and children (wic) works with prenatal mothers, infants, and children to age five. Wic provides eligible families with educational material and tools to support mother and child's health and wellness. Wic provides these families with vouchers for healthy foods designed to supplement mother and child's diet with specific key nutrients. Wic also ensures each child receives regular physical check-up exams. To encourage and support new mothers to breastfeed their child, breastfeeding peer counselors, breast pumps, and enhanced food packages to mothers who are breastfeeding are available. Economic opportunity - economic opportunity connects people in need with programs and services that offer help through financial assistance, referrals, education, and advocacy. The program is designed to assess each client's/household's particular set of needs and provide support ranging from crisis intervention (immediate need for fuel, food, shelter, etc. ) to case management. The goal is to help individuals and their families achieve independence and financial stability. Other programs that fall under the community outreach umbrella include york county ca$h (creating assets savings and hope), a financial capability education program, which includes free tax preparation, financial coaching and workshops aimed at helping clients develop financial goals to build assets, access to justice which offers legal advocacy to self-represented litigants in family law matters, as well as pathways to prosperity, a small transitional housing program for low-income families. Energy services - energy services provides assistance with home heating and energy. The program administers the federal low-income heating and energy assistance program (liheap), energy crisis intervention program (ecip), central heating improvement program (chip), and the weatherization assistance program. These federally-funded programs provide one-time annual benefits to income-eligible households to help cover the cost of home heating. Energy services also administers the low-income assistance plan (liap), which provides benefits to consumers with high electric bills, and weatherization assistance, which helps to reduce energy consumption.