Aroostook County Action Program Inc
Aroostook County Action Program Inc
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About this organization
Mission
Aroostook County Action Program leads or collaborates to provide services that support, empower and improve lives.
About
Early care and education - Early care and education provides Head Start, child care, early intervention, and child care food programs. Accomplishments: Through an agreement with Maine Department of Education, SAD#1 and ACAP continued partnership to expand the enrollment of the SAD#1 preschool program by classrooms operated by ACAP and serving district students. Two of these SAD#1 classrooms operate 6 hours a day/5 days a week on the school schedule. In addition to this partnership, ACAP has been in conversation with other school districts to discuss future partnership and collaborations. The Caribou early care facility underwent a renovation this year, resulting in additional classroom space, equipment, and a more modern learning environment for the children enrolled at that center. In support of agency transition to whole family/two-gen service delivery, ECE hired an additional family coach to work with families interested in taking steps to move their family into economic stability. The family coach role continues to be a critical piece to bring necessary support to the process of moving the family forward in training, education, employment and financial well-being. Head Start program design has supported a whole family approach since its inception. ACAP's move to comprehensive service delivery will lessen the gap between coaching services across the agency. Braiding Head Start family coaching to include A-16 energy coaching adds another much needed educational component to whole family coaching. This year out of the 31 families that received family coaching for the entire year, 41% improved their housing status, and more than 25% of families saw improvements in community involvement, family relationships, engagement in their child's development, or family safety. Family coaches work specifically with families in these areas. Through private foundation funding, we were able to purchase state-of-the-art vision and hearing screeners to conduct screenings on our very young children. The accuracy of these screeners has reduced the time staff spend collecting data and more importantly improved the accuracy of the screening results. We have 100% accuracy from referrals to professionals based on the screening results as well as five times more referrals than in previous years.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
From their filing, the objective of the non-profit is stated as “Aroostook county action program, inc. (acap) provides the people of aroostook county with services and resources that help individuals and families achieve greater economic independence. as a leader, or in partnership with others, acap provides guidance to the community in responding to emerging human needs in the areas of community, family, energy and housing and workforce development services.”.
When talking about its functions, they were outlined as: “Provide services & resources that help individuals & families achieve more economic independence.”.
- The legally reported state of operation for the non-profit is ME.
- According to the filing, the non-profit's address in 2020 is 771 MAIN STREET, PRESQUE ISLE, ME, 04769.
- The non-profit organization as of 2020 has a total of 237 employees reported on their form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is $580,395.
- The organization has 21 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1971.
- The organization pays $7,246,175 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $48,721 in fundraising expenses.