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Community Action's goal is to root out poverty. There are several actions that can be taken at the national, state, and local-level to achieve this goal:
Build an Economy that Works for Everyone: This can be accomplished by creating and maintaining economic mechanisms and innovative financing to improve the financial and economic conditions of all residents, especially those in need of workforce skills and positions. A variety of work and career opportunities must be developed at pay levels that reward effort and skill appropriately.
Investing in Our Future: We can invest in our future by providing education, workforce training, infrastructure, and protection of vital assets (including clean air and water, renewable energy, and a healthy global ecosystem) to help people and communities improve their quality of life, increase economic opportunity, and anticipate future individual and community needs. This will result in education and skill levels rising for all, since sound policies and practices protect and preserve vital assets, leading to greater capacity to meet challenges of the future.
Maximize Equal Opportunity: We must remove barriers and create public policies, programs and initiatives (including enforcement strategies) that ensure maximum opportunity for all those seeking to improve their situations, skills, and futures. By doing so we can ensure that opportunities are fully accessible and widely promoted, resulting in more people and communities reaching their full potentials through a greater range of opportunities in a wider variety of situations.
Utah's Community Action Agencies are taking action by providing job training, education, and employment services, all of which are key to helping people with low-incomes reach self-sufficiency. Not all programs are offered statewide. For more information on a particular program, visit the link to our Local Agencies. Statewide job training and employment services are offered by the Utah Department of Workforce Services.
PROGRAMS OFFERED BY UTAH'S COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCIES:
- Job counseling
- Job referrals
- Job listings
- Assistance in overcoming the barriers to employment
- Assistance with job seeking skills (resume writing, completing job applications)
- Bus passes and gas vouchers to help people get to work and job interviews
- Computer skills training
- GED/High School diploma
- Literacy and ESL training
- Clothing for employment
- Individual job skill assessments
- Community Development Grants for job development
- After School Youth Development programs
- Youth job skill training
- In-home parent education
- Family, marriage, and individual therapy
- Financial education
- Nursery services for teen parents to help them complete high school
- Business self-reliance resources
- Emergency preparedness training
- Tenants rights classes
- Home-buyer and mortgage counseling classes
- Predatory lending counseling
