Community Action Program Of East Central Oregon

Housing stability & homeless services: provide housing assistance and emergency shelter to low-income individuals within our service area. Capeco received additional state funding due to an emergency order by the governor to administer in response to the homeless crisis for the 2023-2024 program year. Capeco was able to provide services to 1,731 individuals during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

Food and nutrition: provide and coordinate services to enhance opportunities for the qualified individuals who are in need of food/nutritional support through food boxes and distribution to food pantries. Restrictions continued to lessen in this period. Capeco provided and coordinated services which allowed 117,358 individuals to be assisted during the 2023-2024 fiscal year.

Area agency on aging & independent support services: coordinate, develop, and maintain services to enhance opportunities for the elderly to maintain independence, dignity, and choice. Services include money management, in-home care, and meals provided through both congregate settings and direct home delivery. Staff work closely with aging and people with disabilities offices in our service area to seemlessly transition consumers between the two agencies as they qualify for different services. The area agency on aging offers services to a wide rance of individuals including assistance to family caregivers through the respite program, care recipients through oregon project independence, concerned community members through the aging and disability resource connection of oregon phone line, and healthy but isolated and lonely seniors through the reassurance progam. In the 2023-2024 fiscal year capeco provided service to 1,727 individuals.