New River Community Action Inc

Head start provides comprehensive developmental services to eligible preschool children and their families. Family focused services emphasize education, nutrition, parent engagement, social services and preventive health care. Children's health improvement partnership (chip) provides access to health care for pregnant women and children age birth to six. A nurse and family case manager home visiting team offer parent education and support to help families move toward self-sufficiency. Homeless and housing programs prevent and alleviate homelessness through temporary financial assistance, renter education workshops, housing counseling, and administer housing vouchers. Emergency assistance/food pantries program provides temporary assistance for basic needs such as food, shelter, clothing and prescriptions. Floyd backpack program provides weekend food for eligible school children. Virginia community action reentry system (va cares) assists exoffenders with job readiness training, job search and support groups to assist with successful reintegration into society. Volunteer income tax assistance (vita) provides free tax preparation to low income families for potential increase in annual income through tax credits. To our house partners with faithbased organizations to provide temporary shelter for homeless men and women during winter months. Two gen/whole family-whole family approach is a goaloriented approach using familycentered coaching as the foundation. Whole family approach serves giles and pulaski families.

Chip program (children's health improvement partnership) a collaboration between new river community action and local public and private health, dental and human services organizations help eligible children, ages birth to six and pregnant women in the new river valley, with access to "medical home" (family doctor and dentist) and provides case management services and parent education.

Homeless programs provides time limited financial assistance to eligible people in the new river valley who are homeless or in imminent danger of becoming homeless. Provides counseling in four areas: rental, homeless, foreclosure prevention, and post purchase. Counseling is available to all community members. Provides educational services workshops for renter education and fair housing. We added the housing choice voucher program (housing connections) which administers section 8 housing vouchers.