VOLUME IV
June 16, 2020
IN THIS ISSUE

  • SCACAP Celebrates Community Action Month
  • SCACAP Awarded Resource Grant
  • SCACAP Program Governance
  • Upcoming Statewide Training Events
  • 2020 Mid-Fall Training Conference
 SCACAP CELEBRATES COMMUNITY ACTION MONTH
MAY 2020
May is recognized as Community Action Month. Community Action Month was created to highlight the Community Action Agencies’ (CAAs) role in helping families with low incomes achieve economic security. It is also the month to recognize and celebrate the successes accomplished by the people dedicated and committed to making a difference in the lives of others.

Each year, South Carolina, along with the Community Action Agencies (CAA) across the nation, celebrate National Community Action Month in the Month of May. In observance, South Carolina Community Action Agencies display their programs and services within their community. This celebration gives local residents, many of whom are unaware of the poverty in their communities, a first-hand look at the struggles low-income families face and how Community Action Programs help them achieve financial security. The National Theme was “Be Community Action”. On May 1, 2020, the Governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, signed the Community Action Proclamation observance of Community Action Month.
Governor's Community Action Proclamation
Beaufort Jasper EOC
Beaufort Jasper Economic Opportunity Commission, Inc. has planned and exemplified a 2-week calendar of activities for their Community Action Awareness Month. These activities consisted of Favorite NFL Jersey/Shirt Day, Wear Your CAA Shirt, Guys Wear Pink/Gals Wear Blue, Wear Camouflage, and Dress Like A Character in A Book. The second week of activities consisted of Afro Wig/Puff, Eyeglasses, & Neck Tie Day, Dress to Impress Day, Wacky Tacky Day, Black and White Day, and Motivational Shirt Day.
For more information, please contact James G. Williams, Executive Director at (843) 255-7220.
GLEAMNS HRC
This year GLEAMNS Human Resources Commission celebrated Community Action month by implementing a "Contact-less Day of Action". Due to the impact of COVID-19, the GLEAMNS Community Services Department hosted a "Contact-less Day of Action" on May 15, 2020 at the Brewer Community Complex in Greenwood. Members of the community were served "drive-through" style - staff handed out resource bags and boxed lunches as people drove up in their vehicles. Lunch items were either Chick-fil-a boxes or Papa Johns pizza boxes. Staff also delivered lunch items to local vendors and community partners.

The Mayor of Greenwood, Brandon Smith, proclaimed May 2020 as Community Action Month, and he presented the proclamation to GLEAMNS during a Greenwood City Council Meeting on Monday, May 18, 2020.

The photos below display staff members passing food items and resource packets to customers of the "drive-through," as well as GLEAMNS board chair, Ms. Betty Boles (see center photo). Vendors/community partners also received lunch deliveries as shown in the right side photo.
For more information, please contact Shunna Jeter, Chief Executive Officer at (864) 223-8434
Palmetto CAP
Palmetto CAP, in partnership with Mayor John J. Tecklenburg and Charleston City Council, announced the ribbon cutting for four new affordable apartments on the Charleston peninsula on Monday, May 18, 2020. Palemtto CAP also conducted their annual community resource survey along with gathering COVID-19 resource guide information. On May 26, 2020, a Palmetto CAP Service Update webinar was hosted. Attendees learned more about how Palmetto CAP has updated their services to keep employees and participants safe. This webinar helped community providers better serve participants with referrals to the agency as well.
For more information, please contact Casdell Singleton, Executive Director at (843) 723-9285
Waccamaw EOC
The staff of Waccamaw EOC, Inc. participated in Census Day of Action on May 13, 2020 to celebrate completing the census for their household. The staff took their selfies with a sign showing the hashtag #ICOUNTTOO. Census Day of Action was a Facebook Live event that answered questions about completing the census and celebrated the states with the highest response rates.
For more information, please contact James Pasley, Executive Director at
(843) 234-4100
SCACAP Spotlights Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Program (EHS-CCP)
In each edition of The Hub SCACAP shares best practices and spotlights these best practices of SCACAP’s Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP). This issue of The Hub will spotlight one (1) of SCACAP's EHS Child Care Partners: Midland's Primary. We are spotlighting this center for creating an innovative way to provide supplies to the children and their families of our EHS-CCP Program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Midland’s Primary Learning Center
As a way to celebrate Community Action Month, SCACAP’s EHS Child Care Partner, Midland’s Primary Learning Center (MPLC), held a Quarantine Care Package Drop-Off. MPLC’s Director, Mrs. Benita McCullum, and Assistant Director, Mrs. Sheria Williams, visited the homes of their EHS children and families delivering quarantine care packages using a transit van that is decorated with the Center’s name. In the middle picture below, SCACAP’s EHS-CCP Policy Council Chair, Ms. Kaitlyn Dowdy, participated with the distribution as well. These care packages consisted of a snack bag, diapers and pull-ups, and a balloon.
 
Thank you, Midlands Primary Learning Center, for continuing to navigate through the process of ensuring our comprehensive services are provided to our families and implementing the guideline of Health & Nutrition Services.
SCACAP AWARDED $1,000 FROM WELLCARE COMMUNITY CONNECTION RESOURCE GRANT
South Carolina Association of Community Action Partnerships, Inc. (SCACAP) was awarded a Community Connection Resource grant in the amount of $1,000 by WellCare. SCACAP EHS-CCP Program serves low-income children birth to three and families through thirteen Early Head Start Childcare Centers in nine of the most poorest and rural counties across the State of South Carolina. Our centers are located in rural areas of the county where there is limited access to essential resources needed for the health and safety and care of our infants and toddlers. Through this grant, SCACAP will increase essential resources to purchase diapers and wipes, decreasing the financial burden of the  256   vulnerable families and their children enrolled in our EHS-CCP Program. 
SCACAP PROGRAM GOVERNANCE
SCACAP Governance At Work
Before the global pandemic took full effect in the United States, governing bodies recognized the responsibility of members to make every effort to attend meetings, but from time to time, necessary absence may prohibit attendance. A member had the opportunity to participate in any board or council Meeting by teleconferencing or video conferencing when they were unable to attend in person. This year, conducting business through teleconference or video conferencing has become the new norm.

The EHS-CCP Policy Council practiced social distancing by hosting their meeting via telephone on Thursday, May 7, 2020. On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, at 1:00 PM, SCACAP's Board of Directors (Governing Body) practiced social distancing by hosting their meetings via Zoom Video Conferencing (see picture above). The SCACAP Board of Directors and Policy Council met to maintain their legal and fiscal responsibility to administer and oversee the SCACAP's Early Head Start program.
Upcoming Statewide Training Events
SCACAP will be offering free and fee based conferences to keep the SC Network updated on emerging trends, especially now! This conference will focus on the marketing struggles nonprofit organizations face and how to overcome those hurdles as well as introducing new and productive ways to communicate with customers, partners and employees.

Registration details coming soon.
2020 MID-FALL TRAINING CONFERENCE UPDATE
WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THE LAUNCH OF OUR MID FALL CONFERENCE 2020!
As stated in previous emails, due to the unforeseen COVID-19 global pandemic, the South Carolina Community Action Partnership and the South Carolina State Head Start Association 2020 Spring Training Conference has been officially canceled. Despite having a spectacular conference packed with informative and exciting workshops planned, we know it is in the best interest of our presenters, sponsors, and attendees to cancel the conference. The health and safety of our network are what is most important.

While the Spring Conference has been canceled, we will be offering a variety of online training opportunities throughout this uncertain time. We are already witnessing the devastating economic impact of this virus, which will have a massive effect on the people we serve. As everyone figures out how to refocus their work in this new world, rest assured that SCACAP is working and finding innovative solutions to continue fighting for economic security for our vulnerable population and to support the CAA, Head Start, and Weatherization agencies on the frontlines of this fight.  
HOW TO SUBMIT TO THE HUB
We hope you enjoyed this edition of The Hub. Look for Volume III to stay updated on SCACAP news. If your agency would like to be featured in an upcoming volume of The Hub, send us your updates via email to thehub@scacap.org
COMMUNITY ACTION PROMISE
Community Action changes people's lives, embodies the spirit of hope, improves communities, and makes America a better place to live. We care about the entire community and we are dedicated to helping people help themselves and each other.
Working Together Hand in Hand!
ABOUT SOUTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIPS, INC. (SCACAP)
SCACAP is a statewide nonprofit community-based organization that aims to develop and support programs to promote self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life for income-eligible children, youth, individuals, and families. SCACAP serves as a State clearinghouse or hub for the Community Action, Head Start, and Weatherization Networks that provides various programs and services to meet the needs of our targeted population, such as comprehensive early care, housing, energy assistance and efficiency programs, crisis and case management, employment, income management Nutrition, youth and senior programs, and a myriad of other programs. SCACAP advocates for policies that strengthen program services, coordinates extensive training, professional development, statewide data compilation and analysis, reporting, communication and marketing, resource and partnership development, research and strategic planning, statewide outreach and education, and a plethora of other services to build the capacity to enrich service delivery. SCACAP also implements statewide community based programming and is currently a grantee of an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership Program in nine counties throughout the State of SC.