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Governmental Agency Links

• www.ruralhome.org» The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) is a national nonprofit corporation created to increase the availability of decent and affordable housing for low-income people in rural areas throughout the United States.

• www.mhdc.org» MHDC is the state's housing finance agency. The Commission is dedicated to strengthening communities and the lives of Missourians through the financing, development and preservation of affordable housing.

• www.masw.org» The Missouri Association for Social Welfare

• www.mfhc.org» The Missouri Family Health Council is a non-profit organization that administers federal Title X funds for family planning services for the state of Missouri.

• www.moheadstart.org» Missouri Head Start home page

• www.fdncenter.org» The Foundation Center – Your gateway to philanthropy on the World Wide Web.

• www.familyeducation.com» FamilyEducation.com – Learning Network Parent Channel

• www.childrensdefense.org» The mission of the Children's Defense Fund is to Leave No Child Behind^® and to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start, and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.

• www.census.gov» US Census Bureau – United States Department of Commerce

• www.oseda.missouri.edu» The Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis (OSEDA) provides Missourians with up-to-date social, economic, and demographic information about their localities.

• www.communityconnection.org» Community Connection is a statewide database of community resources and consumer information on the World Wide Web.

• http://www.dese.state.mo.us/» Annual Reporting of School Data

• http://wfd-info.works.state.mo.us» Missouri’s New Workforce Development System – The new Workforce Development System is being developed to improve customer-based results for job seekers and employers.

• www.greathires.org/cgi-bin/index.cgi» Great Hires, Missouri's Workforce Resource, is the official Workforce Resource website for the State of Missouri.

• www.idanetwork.org» The IDA network serves as a gateway to the individuals, organizations, and ideas that are collectively shaping the Individual Development Account (IDA) field. As a member of this fast-growing, high-spirited community, you can exchange information and ideas about how to best structure IDA initiatives and policies that enable low-income families and individuals to save, build wealth, and contribute to the nation’s continued economic growth.

• http://dss.state.mo.us/mcplus» MC Plus For Kids – Missouri’s Health Insurance Program For Children

• www.dhss.state.mo.us/MNN/» The Missouri Nutrition Network facilitates collaboration among nutrition, health and education providers to expand and integrate effective nutrition education efforts in food stamp and other nutrition programs for low-income households.

  
  
  

  Community Action Network Links

• www.communityaction.org» The Missouri Association for Community Action (MACA) is a statewide, not-for-profit organization that represents Missouri's 19 Community Action Agencies (CAAs) and their 3,600 employees.

• www.communityactionpartnership.com» National Association of Community Action Agencies

• www.ncaf.org» The National Community Action Foundation – Advocates for the nation's Community Action Agencies and the low-income Americans they serve.

• www.oaiwp.org» Ozark Action Incorporated seeks to utilize available resources to effectively assist individuals, families and communities to achieve their highest levels of self-sufficiency, thereby, decreasing the levels of poverty throughout OAI's service area.

• www.mvcaa.net» Missouri Valley Human Resource Community Action Agency – The mission of Missouri Valley Human Resource Community Action Agency is to empower disadvantaged people in our seven-county area to attain self-sufficiency through quality programs.

• www.mocaonline.org» Missouri Ozarks Community Action, Inc. (MOCA) is a non-profit community action agency, People Helping People. MOCA is dedicated to helping families and individuals in the eight central Missouri counties of Camden, Crawford, Gasconade, Laclede, Maries, Miller, Phelps, and Pulaski. MOCA's goal is to help low income people become self-sufficient. This is accomplished through the aid of federal, state, local, and private resources.

• www.jfcac.org» Jefferson-Franklin Community Action Corporation is a private, nonprofit corporation, formed in 1965.  The mission of JFCAC is to advance, elevate, and promote the economic, educational, civic, and social conditions of the citizens.  The mission includes the need to promote self-sufficiency and to strengthen the opportunity to live in decency and dignity.

• www.stepinccaa.com» Community Action Agency of St. Louis County's mission is to provide individuals, families, and local communities at or near the poverty level, or in crisis, with essential resources and interpersonal support to move toward appropriate self-sufficiency.

• www.eoccaa.org» Established in 1965 as a private nonprofit organization the Community Action Partnership of St. Joseph (CAP of St. Joseph), is the designated Community Action Agency serving the needs of low-income families in Andrew, Buchanan, Clinton, and DeKalb Counties in Northwest Missouri. Encompassing the goal of providing family-focused , comprehensive human services, they offer a variety of programming while keeping their mission intact.

• www.cmchdc.org» The Central Missouri Counties' Human Development Corporation (CMCHDC) is a private, non-profit corporation.  Incorporated over thirty years ago, on December 6, 1965, CMCHDC is the designated Community Action Agency for the eight counties of Audrain, Boone, Callaway, Cole, Cooper, Howard, Moniteau and Osage.

• www.communityservicesinc.org» Community Services, Inc. is a private, non-for-profit corporation that contracts with Federal and State funding sources to operate programs and provide services to low-income, elderly, and handicapped individuals in Northwest Missouri.

• www.daeoc.com» The Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corporation (DAEOC) is a private, not-for-profit organization governed by a local tri-partite board.  The board is composed of twenty-one persons from Dunklin, Mississippi, New Madrid, Pemiscot, Scott, and Stoddard counties in the Bootheel.  The board consists of equal numbers of private sector, public sector, and low-income representatives.  This organizational structure brings together local community leaders from each of the representative groups to respond to specific community needs.

• www.eastmoaa.org» EMAA is a not-for-profit Missouri corporation governed by a 24-member Board of Directors – three from each of the counties in EMAA’s primary service area:  Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Iron, Madison, Perry, St. Francois, Ste. Genevieve and Washington.

• www.ghcaa.org» The Green Hills Community Action Agency will focus on assisting low-income people in their efforts to become self-reliant. The Agency will strive to work in partnership with the state, counties, communities and other agencies to provide a range of human and economic services and activities. The goal of these services and activities is to address and ease the misery of poverty, replace despair with opportunity and hope, make known the plight of the poor, focus in on people, individuals, families, communities, and facilitate problem solving."

• www.stlouis.missouri.org/501c/hdc/» The Human Development Corporation of Metropolitan St. Louis' mission is to provide a range of services that assist low-income individuals and families to gain skills, knowledge and motivation to become self-sufficient and revitalize the community.

• www.oacac-caa.org» It is the mission of the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation to improve the quality of life by reducing poverty and strengthening families and communities.

• www.uscaa.info» To eliminate poverty among the people of Jackson, Clay and Platte counties in Missouri.

• www.wcmcaa.org» West Central Missouri Community Action Agency (WCMCAA) is a community based organization dedicated to bettering the economic, physical, mental, and social well-being of all people, especially the disadvantaged, by effectively coordinating and administering available resources and information.

• www.caplaw.org» Community Action Program Legal Services Inc. (CAPLAW) is a nonprofit membership organization designed to provide expert legal services and legal training to community action agencies.

• www.nascsp.org» National Association for State Community Services Program's Mission: To increase the capacity of the states to prevent and reduce poverty.

  
  
  

  Government Agency Links

• www.state.mo.us» Missouri State Government Web Page

• www.health.state.mo.us» Missouri Department of Health

• www.whitehouse.gov» The White House

• www.acf.dhhs.gov» the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for federal programs that promote the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals, and communities.

• www.jascoflu.com» Influenza Information for the Jasper County Area

  
  
  

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