COMMUNITY ACT COUNCIL FOR LEX-FAY

Weatherization services - the organization is the grant recipient of the federal weatherization assistance program in fayette, bourbon, harrison and nicholas counties, kentucky. The weatherization assistance program improves the energy efficiency of participants' homes through inspection, improvements and repairs such as insulating walls and floors, replacing heating systems and sealing windows and doors. In 2024, cac's weatherization assistance programs, including warmwise, served 81 individuals.the organization is the grant recipient of the federal low-income home energy assistance program (liheap) in fayette, bourbon, harrison and nicholas counties, kentucky. Liheap offers subsidy and crisis assistance with energy bills. Subsidy assistance offers participants a one-time credit to their utility bill and is available from november through mid-december. Crisis assistance offers participants who have received a disconnection notice (or who are within four days of running out of home heating fuel) payment of their utility bills with a co-pay requirement. Cac also operated a liheap summer program to provide emergency assistance for households struggling with high utility bills during the summer months. In total during fiscal year 2024, cac's liheap programs served 8,178 households.

Senior programs