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WCAC and the City of Worcester will host an important forum in response to rising home heating costs. The forum will be held on Monday, December 5, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. at 18 Chestnut Street, Worcester, Community Conversation: Resources to Help with Rising Home Heating Costs for Low/Moderate Income Households. Read more here.

Our capacity to deliver high quality services to our most vulnerable populations- children, seniors, individuals with disabilities, and our low- and moderate-income families- is reliant on your history of generous support, which has acted a critical boost for WCAC’s work. The need for your support continues this year. Your donation will help us provide a quick response to client needs today, and position WCAC with a greater capacity to address the long-term economic effects our community will face in the future. Support WCAC.

Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. officially opens its 2022-23 season for home heating assistance on November 1, 2022. Financial assistance is available for income-eligible households to help pay home heating bills incurred between November 1 – April 30 of each year. Applications for assistance can be submitted at any point during that time. Read more here.

One of our favorite days of the year – Read for the Record! We were thrilled to welcome so many guest readers to our Head Start classrooms today to share a story! Special thanks to Senator Mike Moore, Representative Joe McKenna, Representative Peter Durant, Mary O’Coin from United Way of South Central MA, representatives of the Southbridge Retired Teachers Association and two of WCAC’s Board Members, Kristen Lemire and Peter Martin. Special thanks to Southbridge CreditUnion for their sponsorship of this fun, early literacy event – ensuring each child will get a book to take home! See more photos here.  #HeadStartWorks #BeCommunityAction

Webster Five recently made a donation of $25,000 to bolster Worcester Community Action Council’s (WCAC) Emergency Fuel Fund. With retail prices for energy at or near multi-year highs across the United States, WCAC is bracing for an extremely challenging winter heating season, having already seen an increase of more than 200% in new applications to its federally-funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP). Read more here.

The Worcester Food Security Task Force and Worcester Community Action Council will host a debrief on the recent White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health on Friday, October 21, 2022 from 9-10 a.m. at WCAC’s (soon-to-be) new office location at 18  Chestnut Street, Worcester. Read more here.

As has been widely reported throughout mainstream media, we are collectively bracing for an extremely challenging home heating winter season with retail prices for energy at or near multi-year highs across the United States. WCAC’s Home Heating Assistance program stands at the ready to help as many eligible households as possible secure the help they need. Read more here.

WCAC will hold a meeting of its Board of Directors on Monday, October 17th at 5 p.m. via Zoom teleconference. Full agenda available here. Meetings are open to the public. Please contact Ellen Ganley for teleconference information.

WCAC is on the move! Learn more about our upcoming office relocation, fantastic new outreach van and more in our September Enewsletter! Read more here.

Worcester Community Action Council, Inc. hosted a Kickoff for the 2022 YouthWorks Summer Jobs program at the JMAC Theatre in downtown Worcester. WCAC’s Job & Education Center (JEC) oversees the program which will place more than 400 youth into jobs with nearly 70 employment partners across the City for a six-week, subsidized work experience starting July 5th. Read more here.