The Springfield Cultural Partnership Inc

Founded in 1980, Corporation for Public Management is headquartered in Springfield, Mass., and operates a statewide welfare-to-work and supported work service. It provides residential, vocational and rehabilitative support services to developmentally disabled persons. The agency provides services to various people, including recipients of public assistance, physically and mentally challenged adults, at-risk youth, refugees seeking United States citizenship and people with special needs. Its offers programs, such as employment and job training, developmentally disabled, and youth and special outreach programs. It provides supported living services, which include programs to assist moderately mentally disabled persons facing incarceration in the absence of alternative treatment. It also offers community living arrangement and opportunities for older adults programs. Corporation for Public Management also offers supported work programs, which provides continuum of employment assistance, job training and support services.

Springfield Partners for Community Action is a nonprofit organization that focuses on job training, health care, housing and economic development issues of low-income families. It offer the Youth IDA program, which helps in buying homes, enrolling in colleges and starting businesses by opening matched savings accounts. The organization additionally offers a homeownership program that rehabilitates distressed housing into homes for sale to low-income buyers. Springfield Partners for Community Action serves as a low-income verification site that helps clients in completing the necessary forms to qualify for food vouchers at local food pantries. It operates a child care center that serves snacks and organizes field trips for preschoolers. In addition, the organization provides the Weatherization Assistance Program, which offers energy efficiency services and materials to single-family homes, multifamily dwellings, and manufactured homes. Springfield Partners for Community Action is located in Springfield, Mass.

Established in 1973, New North Citizens' Council provides advocacy, social and human services to the residents of Hampden County, Mass. Its housing program provides assistance to families in need of housing services, including first-time homebuyers' workshops and homeless prevention services. The organization s young parents support program provides pregnant and parenting youths with home-based parent support programs and case management, prenatal and parenting education, child abuse prevention, and information and referral services. It also offers individual assessment and planning and case management services. In addition, it offers child care, family support, transportation, health and nutrition counseling, family planning and parenting education services. The organization also assists families where a member has a developmental disability.