507 N. Three Notch St, Troy, AL 36081
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507 N. Three Notch St, Troy, AL 36081
Through funds awarded by the Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program, OCAP provides emergency assistance to unemployed, under-employed, and less than fully employed people. These individuals are without means to provide for themselves. OCAP can make a one-time rent/mortgage payment to prevent eviction and a one time utility payment to provide a person with assistance through crisis times in their life.
The Fatherhood/Motherhood Initiative is funded through a partnership with the Department of Human Resources and the State of Alabama Department of Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Children’s Trust Fund. The program promotes healthy relationships between fathers/mothers and their children by educating, supporting and empowering men/women to be responsible parents. Participants will be referred to the program through the Child Support Court system and the Department of Human Resources in Bullock and Pike counties.
The Head Start Program provides underprivileged and special needs children of preschool age with nutrition, education, and medical services in the counties of Bullock, Butler, Coffee, Crenshaw, Dale,, and Pike. Students are taught preschool subjects to help them fulfill their developmental potential. Each child is considered a unique person, with previous experiences, current needs and potential for future growth. In addition, students are served two balanced meals a day and are involved in a comprehensive health program including medical and dental examinations. The Male Initiative program is specifically designed to encourage and promote a father’s involvement with Head Start children through various school and community activities. Whether it is the biological father or not, a child’s development is greatly enhanced by the presence of a male figure.
The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) is a program in which OCAP helps low-income households meet the cost of heating their homes in the winter and cooling their homes in the summer. Depending on how the home is heated, OCAP can make up to a $400.00 payment in an emergency situation for utilities, gas, wood, coal, kerosene, heaters or fans.
Weatherization assists in achieving a healthy living environment and to reduce energy consumption in the dwellings of low-income persons, particularly for the elderly and handicapped, and to aid those households least able to afford high energy cost. Besides our seven (7) county service area, we serve Barbour, Henry, Houston, Coffee, and Geneva counties.
We, at OCAP, know that our agency is much more than a variety of programs to assist the poor and are proud of our accomplishments. From its inception, it has been a group of people committed to a more just society and to a drive to insure a life of decency and dignity for all, regardless of income or social status. We know we have made an invaluable contribution to our area through the development of innovative and cost effective programs which have helped thosands of people find their way out of poverty. However, we know the paradox of poverty, in the midst of plenty, continues today and we must always remember the words of Herman Melville, “We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible treads and along these sympathetic fibers our actions run as causes and return to us as results.”
