Community Action Program Committee, Inc., (CAPC) has been serving Northwest Florida residents since April, 1965.

Our agency began as a small summer program for children, and has developed into a multi-faceted agency targeting poverty in our community. We are an anti-poverty agency and the following four programs work cohesively as our organization focuses on its vision to change people’s lives, to embody the spirit of hope and to make the community a better place to live.

COMMUNITY SERVICES BLOCK GRANT (CSBG)

Funded through Department of Economic Opportunity

HEAD START / EARLY HEAD START

Funded through Health and Human Services, USDA, and Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten

LOW-INCOME HOME ENERGY ASSISTANCE (LIHEAP)

 Funded through Department of Economic Opportunity

WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

Funded through the Department of Economic Opportunity

MISSION STATEMENT


CAPC will help low-income families achieve stability and self-sustainability by collaborating with community stakeholders to create solutions to poverty.

CORE VALUES


Treat all clients with courtesy and respect

Implement a customer-focused approach to service delivery

Conduct business with integrity and passion to serve

Be accountable in all programmatic and financial matters

Demonstrate excellence in everything that we do

Be outcomes-driven to have a positive impact on families and communities

Promote an agency-wide innovative and forward-thinking mindset.

OUR GOALS

Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds, share 6 national goals focusing on the family, the community and Community Action Programs.

Families becoming self-sufficient

Achieve potential by strengthening family and supportive systems

Improving people lives in the community

Giving people a stake in their community

Partnerships among supports and providers

Increase our capacity to help

A message from our Board Chair Tabitha Nichols and our Executive Director Douglas Brown

Our History

In August of 1964, the Economic Opportunity Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Johnson. In October of 1964, Sargeant Shriver was sworn in as Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity.

“It will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson

Board of Directors

Tabitha Nichols
Tabitha NicholsChairperson
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Gabriel Smith
Gabriel SmithVice Chairperson
Representing Private Sector
Al Jackson
Al JacksonTreasurer
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Joe Mack
Joe MackSecretary
Representing Targeted Communities Sector
Commissioner Lumon May
Commissioner Lumon MayMember
Representing Public Sector,
Escambia County Commissioner
John Robertson
John RobertsonMember
Representing Private Sector
David Williams
David WilliamsMember
Representing Public Sector, Escambia County School Board
District 3
Nicole GoheenMember
Representing Private Sector