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The Community Action Partnership of
Kern is a private non-profit corporation with a $43 million dollar budget that administers twenty (20) contracts that operates on six (6) different fiscal years. Funding is derived from federal, state, local and private sources. The agency administers the Child Development & Education Services- State Funded Migrant and General Child Care, Head Start, Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Immunization, Breast Cancer Intervention, Kern County Food Bank,
U.S.D.A. Commodities, Energy Conservation, Home Energy Assistance Program, Senior Brown Bag, Mental Health, Family Counseling, Family Preservation and Support, AIDS Education, HOME Program
,HelpLine, Youth Services Program, Kern Parent Child Center, Family Health Center and Supportive Housing program.
The Agency is compromised of sixty(60) offices/work sites; employs over 600 personnel and operates thirty-four (34) school buses, trucks and cars.
The Agency delivers services to the following areas: Bakersfield, Arvin, McFarland, Lost Hills, Mt.
Pinos, Cantil, Mojave, Rosamond, Wofford Heights, Eagles, Ridgecrest, Tehachapi,
Havilah, Lamont, Shafter, Blackwells Corner, Lake Isabella, Reeder, Edna, Boron, Fremont Valley, Johannesburg, Inyo Kern, Taft,
Caliente, Buttonwillow, Lakeland, Mountain Mesa, Delano, Wasco, Frazier Park, California City, North Edwards,
Randsburg, Kernville, Bodfish, and Oildale. Direct services are provided to over 100,000 low-income residents of all ages and ethnic backgrounds each year. |
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The Community Action Partnership of
Kern formerly known as Kern County Economic Opportunity Corporation
(KCEOC) was established as the a result of a grass-roots efforts of concerned, local citizens of South East Bakersfield and with funding through the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
The Agency is the locally-governed Community Action Agency serving the low-income, elderly, and disadvantaged residents of Kern County. Direct Services are provided to over 100,000 low-income residents of all ages and ethnic backgrounds each year.
The Community Action Partnership of Kern has its Administrative Headquarters at 300 - 19th Street, Bakersfield, California. The office is open 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday - Friday. The Executive Director and staff are available to answer questions concerning
the Agency operations during these hours.
"Helping People to Help Themselves" is the philosophical position the
Agency has adopted in its quest to assist people in need. The services provided by
the Agency are not perceived as "handouts" but rather as assistance to allow people to get back on their feet so they can begin to help themselves, and in time, the community. |
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Under the direction of the Board of Directors, a fifteen (15) person policy making body, the Executive Director, is responsible for planning, organizing, staffing, implementing policy, directing, controlling, reporting, and conducting the overall administration of all Agency component programs.
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