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Great Lakes Community Action Partnership - Empowering Communities

Great Lakes Community Action Partnership, a trade name of WSOS Community Action Commission, empowers communities in northwest Ohio for over 50 years. Offering housing, utility, employment, and fatherhood programs to help families thrive.

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Great Lakes Community Action Partnership - Empowering Communities

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  1. Great Lakes Community Action Partnership A trade name of WSOS Community Action Commission Helping communities thrive, one neighbor at a time. Helping families thrive, One dad at a time.

  2. WSOS CAC • Great Lakes Community Action Partnership has been serving the northwest Ohio area for more than 50 years. • Began in 1965 as WSOS Community Action Commission following the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, which helped create hundreds of community action agencies throughout the United States. • Our letters stood for the core counties we served — Wood, Sandusky, Ottawa, and Seneca.

  3. GLCAP • Our new name not only the expansion of our service region, but also our approach. • This belief is best stated in our mission: We create partnerships and opportunities to help individuals, families and communities thrive.

  4. Great Lakes Community Action Partnership A trade name of WSOS Community Action Commission Adult & Youth Department includes: o Housing Assistance o Utility Assistance o Employment & Training o Fatherhood Programming

  5. EMPLOYMENT

  6. EMPLOYMENT • 33 Dad’s have started a job since enrolled in the program • That is 21% • Average Wage: $10.32 Per hour • Average hours per week: 39.57 • And these figures are always going up

  7. Employment

  8. EMPLOYMENT “Barriers to Employment Success” DVD, Jist Publishing “Resume Realities” DVD, for the Ex-offender, Jist Publishing “Interview Techniques” DVD, for the Ex-offender, Jist Publishing

  9. Great Lakes Community Action Partnership GLCAP Ohio Fatherhood Program Child Support Collected from First-Time Payers: $43,524 Understand Child Support Drivers License and New Amnesty Program Job Search ID’s, Birth Certificates Be There, Be There, Be There

  10. Families are the first incentive. -National Responsible Clearinghouse “Fathers after Incarceration”

  11. O U R D A D

  12. Community and Incarcerated Dads

  13. Inside/Out Class • 6 week classes are taught at CROSSWAEH [Tiffin, Ohio], Northwest Community Correctional Center [Bowling Green, Ohio], Lake Erie Community Corrections Center [Sandusky, Ohio] • 81 Incarcerated Dads [54%] have completed the Inside/Out Class • This is a nationally recognized program

  14. Dads’ Class

  15. Class Content The Father Absence Crisis

  16. Class Content National Fatherhood Curriculum Financial Literacy Family Relations Employment/Work Readiness Curriculum: Inside/Out Dad or 24/7 Dad

  17. Questions? For additional information contact: Great Lakes Community Action Partnership www.glcap.org 800-775-9767 127 South Front Street P.O. Box 590 Fremont, Ohio 43420

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