Community Action Council For Lex- Fayette Bourb Harr Nich Counties

Community services-through various programs, the council served 8,438 individuals and 5,264 households during fiscal year 2024. The services provided range from emergency services, such as liheap energy assistance, food pantry operations and rental assistance, to those associated with transitional and supportive housing. The council also assists individuals and families with financial education and tax preparation through its financial empowerment and volunteer income tax assistance programs.

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