Success Stories by Source: Jovita Tolbert, Director of Program Services, NASCSP

• Aroostook County Action Program, Inc. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Container Gardens Program
  September 2009
  Demonstrates and promotes container gardening to encourage families receiving Women, Infants, and Children nutrition services to grow their own fruits and vegetables.
• Clinch Valley Community Action Camp Joy Program
  September 2009
  Camp Joy provides access to recreation, sport and educational activities to low-income children in a rural area that has few organized summer activities.
• Community Action Partnership-Minot Region Be Amazed Teen Maze Program
  September 2009
  A community effort to teach students in grades 7 through 12 to make positive life choices that can prevent some of the most serious threats to their health and safety.
• Daniel Boone Community Action Agency, Inc. Credit Repair Program
  September 2009
  The Daniel Boone Community Action Agency, Inc, and their Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) staff provide both a Credit Counseling Program and a Housing Program within their integrated case management approach.
• Highland County Community Action Organization Television Show Program
  September 2009
  The Highland County Community Action Organization created a cable television show as a means to efficiently reach individuals and families who are spread throughout their rural service area, in their own homes.
• Mid-Kansas Community Action Program Mission El Dorado Program
  September 2009
  Pools the resources of area service providers, including supplies and volunteer labor to identify, screen and provide service to low-income families in need of minor home repairs.
• Northwest Montana Human Resources, Inc. Mutual Self-Help Housing Program
  September 2009
  Northwest Montana Human Resources, Inc operates the Mutual Self-Help Housing Program, which organizes low-income families who are aspiring homeowners into working teams to help one another build their own homes.
• Ozark Action Inc. Vehicle Repair Loan Program
  September 2009
  The program uses Community Services Block Grant funds to provide loans of up to $500 for vehicle repair. Participants are required to repay the no-interest loan within one year.
• Rural Opportunities Enterprise Center
  September 2009
  The Center provides information on business start-up and expansion and offers microloans to qualifying businesses.
• Youth Emergency Services, Inc. Housing and Independent Living Program
  September 2009
  The Housing and Independent Living Program provides the tools necessary for newly-independent foster youth to establish a self-sustaining and constructive life style.
• Rural Resources ‘Diner’s Choice’ Program
  June 2007
  A coupon system to provide restaurant and home delived meals to nutritionally at-risk seniors.
• California InfoNet Project
  June 2007
  The InfoNet Project was formed to strengthen Tuolumne County residents access to health and social services by providing an easy-to-use website to provide information and assistance service for low-income households, the homeless, seniors, people with disabilities, Latinos and Native Americans.
• HELP New Mexico Farm Workers
  June 2007
  The Farm Worker Child Care Task Force is a collaborative program that provides access to health services and improved living conditions to New Mexican farm workers and their families in Ana and Luna counties.
• Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency Medicare Rx Plan
  June 2007
  In 2005 the Dakota Prairie Community Action Agency was able to provide outreach, information and assistance to elderly clients signing up for Medicare Prescription Drug Cards.
• Prescription for Prevention
  June 2007
  Three Minnesota organizations worked together to help with emergency prescriptions and, together, developed a program to provide clients with assistance for co-payments or one-month prescriptions.
• Affordable Workforce Housing in Blackduck, Minnesota
  June 2007
  An urgent need for affordable workforce housing in Blackduck, Minnesota was solved by an ambitious four-year project to build a 21-unit subdivision by 2005.
• Community Service Agency of Reno Homeownership Program
  June 2007
  Describes a program in Reno, Nevada that removes a barrier to homeownership for low income families by providing up to 4% of the purchase price of the home.
• Dickenson County Virginia Child Care Center
  June 2007
  Several organizations in Dickenson County Virgina worked together to build a state-of-the-art child care facility to serve workers at technology-based customer-service call centers.
• Hertford Northampton Farmer Market (North Carolina)
  June 2007
  The Hertford Northampton Farmer Market is a local venture to provide alternative markets for former tobacco farmers.
• WAGES Medication Management and Prescription Assistance Program
  June 2007
  The WAGES program educates low-income seniors in North Carolina about their medications, checks for interactions and duplication, and helps them manage their prescription costs.
• BCMW Community Services, Inc. (Illinois)
  May 2007
  Describes the housing case management services provided by an agency's Family and Community Development Specialists in Illinois.