Head Start

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Union County Community Action, Inc. (UCCA) is a private non-profit corporation structured in accordance with standards and requirements of the Federal Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and amendments. This Act states, "The basic purpose of community action is to stimulate a better focusing of all available local, state, private, and federal resources upon the goals of enabling low-income families and low-income individuals of all ages to obtain skills, knowledge, and motivations, and secure the opportunities needed for them to become fully self-sufficient."
Currently UCCA, headquartered in Union County, serves a three-county area (Union, Anson, and Richmond) with the following programs: Head Start (including Early Head Start and More @ Four), Community Services Block Grant (CSBG), and Workforce Investment Act (WIA). Through these programs, UCCA helps low-income individuals and families break out of the cycle of poverty, not with short-term answers or temporary solutions, but with realistic programs and services to help them become self-sufficient and contributing members of their community. By understanding our communities, we help design programs and services that respond to the needs of the communities we serve. UCCA helps individuals, children and families who are disadvantaged, deprived, under-employed or unemployed, lacking education or job skills, who may suffer mental or physical handicaps or those rejected or forgotten because of age. We help restore the self- respect and dignity of those living in poverty. We create opportunities and then help people learn to use those opportunities to help themselves, thus moving individuals and families out of poverty and off public assistance.