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Self-Sufficiency Program

Community Progress Council’s Self-Sufficiency Program empowers and coaches low-income families to attain a family sustaining wage in order to achieve and maintain economic self-sufficiency and live free of public assistance.

CPC’s Self-Sufficiency Program has two phases. The first phase starts with “Getting Ahead in a Just Getting by World” conversations where participants investigate how poverty affects their lives and their communities. Over several weeks, participants examine their current situation, build resources, and begin to develop a vision for the future, creating a plan for getting ahead.

Getting Ahead graduates who are motivated and ready to transform their lives will be invited to participate in the second phase of the program – where participants work intensively with a Self-Sufficiency Coach to more fully develop a future story and create a concrete plan to move toward self-sufficiency.

Self-Sufficiency Coaches will build strong relationships with participants and will serve as mentors, advocates, and advisers. Coaches are there to coach and provide support, not to manage a family’s journey. We will work together with you to identify individual strengths and needs, and hold participants accountable to your goal plan.

Our Services

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'Getting ahead'

Through a series of facilitated conversations, “Getting Ahead” focuses on building a mental model of your life now, and planning for your future story. Participants in the “Getting Ahead” conversations receive a stipend for each week of participation. In addition, a meal and childcare are provided. The program is offered at locations across York County with 6-12 participants in each group, and will run two times per year, starting in April and October.

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Self-Sufficiency Coaching

Participants will be assessed and coached to improve their situations on the following self-sufficiency indicators: employment, income, housing, transportation, health insurance, education, childcare, and food and nutrition. Each participant will identify their strengths, barriers, and interests, and will use that to develop a goal plan. Every plan will center on attaining the education and training necessary to secure employment that pays a family-sustaining wage. Coaches will support participants as they acquire the education, skills, and employment they need to become financially stable.

Our Funders

Contact Us

226 E. College Ave.

York, PA 17403

PHONE: 717–846–4600

FAX: 717–854–8658

EMAIL: resourcenavigator@yorkcpc.org


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