The Community Support Component of the Agency provides emergency short term financial assistance along with case management services and resource referrals to families or individuals faced with crisis situations, i.e. evictions, foreclosures, utility disconnections and emergency food assistance to help families move towards self-sufficiency. Through Case Management, families or individuals are provided financial counseling in consumer education and budgetary management along with referrals to other support service agencies, including Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Veterans Benefits and Unemployment Benefits.
   
Individuals and families are also provided employment counseling and referral services to training, educational and vocational rehabilitation training services that will enhance their abilities to become self-sufficient.
   
Other short termed assistance include program support activities where financial assistance is available through the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).

 

This program is designed to provide financial assistance to eligible senior citizens, homebound individuals, and low income families with their heating bills during peak seasonal months.

 

 
This component is also responsible for the Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). This program makes food assistance available through the Surplus Commodities Food Distribution Program.
The goal of all community Support programs is designed to assist low-income families to become self-sufficient.