Scott-Carver-Dakota CAP Agency, Inc.

CAP Agency’s Energy Assistance Program (EAP) helps eligible households maintain affordable, continuous and safe home energy. Our services include bill payment assistance, home energy crisis intervention, outreach, energy advocacy, information about utility consumer rights, and referrals.

Head Start is designed to work with the whole family and encourages parents as their child’s first and most important teacher. Head Start serves families with children age three to five. In addition to providing a free, quality preschool experience, the program offers health, nutrition and social services.

Head Start promotes the school readiness of young children from income eligible families. We define school readiness as children being ready for school, families ready to support their children’s learning, and schools ready for the children who enter their doors.

Early Head Start is a home visiting program in Scott, Carver, and Dakota counties. It is designed to nurture healthy attachments between a child and their parent/caregiver. It provides a full range of services for each family from pregnancy to a child’s third year. Early Head Start provides a safe and developmentally enriching, caregiving experience. The program promotes physical, social and emotional development of infants and toddlers, aimed towards school readiness.

We know that investing in safe and stable housing reduces societal costs now, and in the future. CAP Agency helps families achieve independence and self-sufficiency by meeting the most basic need for safe and stable housing. When individuals and families have a place to call home, they are free to focus on employment, health, education, and wellness.

Working closely with our community partners, we take a comprehensive approach to addressing the housing needs of our community. All along the way, we support families with goal setting and lasting connections to community resources. We maintain flexibility because no one set of solutions will meet all needs.

CAP Agency Senior Nutrition ensures that individuals who are disabled or 60 and older have quality, nutritionally balanced meals. Meals are served mid-day at multiple sites throughout Scott, Carver and Dakota counties. Eligible Individuals may also receive a meal delivered directly to their home. Seniors are also connected to other services to improve overall health and well-being.

The services are funded as part of the Older American Act, through a contract with the Metropolitan Area Agency on Aging (MAAA), participant contributions and community partners.

WIC ensures families have the nutritious food needed to create and sustain a healthy lifestyle. We also provide referrals to healthcare services as well as breastfeeding promotion and support. A key component of WIC is education, including nutrition assessment, and one-on-one counseling to help families make healthy choices.

The Crisis Nursery offers support to parents in crisis. The Crisis Nursery is a prevention program dedicated to protecting children from abuse and neglect. It is a lifeline to parents in crisis, emergency situation, or undergoing overwhelming stress. This program promotes healthy families, relationships and communities.