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CalFresh Healthy Living Update: March 2022

CalFresh Healthy Living Update: March 2022

Engaging in physical activity is important to keep your bones and muscles strong and healthy! Exercise can be fun and easy to integrate into your busy schedule. Taking just 10 minutes out of your day is a quick and effective way to get your body moving. During March,...

Elevate Youth Program Update: February 2022

Elevate Youth Program Update: February 2022

For the month of February, Elevate Youth presented a series of Advocacy hangouts to encourage youth to speak up and advocate for things that matter to them. This was set up as a 3-part series that began in February and will...

CalFresh Healthy Living Update: March 2022

CalFresh Healthy Living Program Update: February 2022

As American Heart Month comes to an end, the CalFresh Healthy Living program would like to remind you that in addition to increasing your fruit and vegetable intake, it’s important to take some time to get active through physical activity! In the month of February,...

Workforce Development Success Story

Workforce Development Success Story

Isaiah H. found himself in the same situation many other young adults face: an uncertainty of how to break into the workforce. He found himself in a fellowship program for a nonprofit, and then was referred to CAP OC’s Workforce Development (WFD) Program by his...

Future is Working 2022

Future is Working 2022

Empowered2Work Join us in our goal to raise $10,000 to empower young adults to strengthen our future workforce of Orange County! The pandemic has had devastating, lasting effects on so many of our Orange County residents who found themselves in need of food and other...

Elevate Youth Program Update: February 2022

Elevate Youth Program Update: January 2022

For the start of 2022, Elevate Youth designed a virtual Social Hour for participants to interact and socialize with one another during these pivotal times. Elevate Youth created a Hangout that allowed participants to be in the driver seat of the program. This allowed...

Inflation, supply issues also pass through to affect food banks

Inflation, supply issues also pass through to affect food banks

"Inflation pushing the cost of necessities up and lingering supply chain issues have been affecting Orange County’s most vulnerable people. 'That’s a drastic hit to already struggling families,” Gregory Scott, the CEO of the Community Action Partnership of Orange...

Elevate Youth Program Update: February 2022

Elevate Youth Leadership and Advocacy Month

During the month of November, Elevate Youth focused on leadership and advocacy.  Elevate Youth and the Adult Allies took their hangouts to Anaheim, Orange, and Santa Ana to facilitate conversations on leadership, change making, and community service. On Thanksgiving,...

Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco in La Habra – November 2021

Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco in La Habra – November 2021

During the month of November, the Reducing Youth Access to Tobacco Program hosted a Letter Writing Meeting with the coalition members from La Habra Teens Against Vaping and Vape Free La Habra on November 19, 2021. During this meeting, youth and adult coalition members...

Walking the Walk on the Living Wage Talk

Walking the Walk on the Living Wage Talk

Walking the Walk on the Living Wage Talk By Gregory C. Scott, President and CEO, Community Action Partnership Orange County Few issues in American life have been as obstinate as poverty. No matter where you are in our great country, poverty has presented the nation...