Community Services Agency
CSA
Mission
The
Mission of the Community Services Agency (CSA)
is to improve the lives of workers and their
families by meeting their human and social
services needs; by building broad and diverse
coalitions to promote and protect dignity and
justice for workers; and by empowering workers
and their unions to make their communities
better, more responsive places to live, work,
raise a family and
retire.
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CSA is a campaign participant in United Way of the National Capital Area, the Combined Federal Campaign and the DC One Fund. Please consider designating your worksite charitable contribution to CSA-United Way and DC One Fund Designation Number 8253; combined Federal Campaign Designation Number 19579.
Online Video Features Building Futures Program Grads, Shows How Contributions Matter
Without the Building Futures (BF) Pre-Apprenticeship program “I would not have had the opportunity to become an electrician,” BF graduate Lisa Kenner says in a new video (below) produced by the IBEW's media department. The Community Services Agency’s program “pretty much built my future,” Kenner adds. “They built the bridge for me to advance to where I want to be.” Other BF graduates explain how the program changed their lives in the 3:35-minute video, which the IBEW produced as part of its United Way campaign ("IBEW Leads United Way Labor Division," UC 11/29/2012). “It’s so important that people contribute,” said CSA’s Client Services Coordinator Sylvia Casaro Dietert. Click here for details – and downloadable flyers – about the United Way, Combined Federal Campaign and DC One Fund campaigns.
Emergency Assistance Fund
CSA raises and
spends approximately $120,000 annually and
assists about 350 families with emergency
financial needs- prevention of utility cut-offs
and evictions, needed prescriptions,
transportation so members can keep working,
food, child care and other needs.
Information and
Referral Services
CSA annually refers hundreds of metro
area residents to community resources for all
kinds of social services assistance.
Building Futures
Pre-Apprenticeship Training and Placement
Program
This program provides a 6-week
pre-apprenticeship training program to help
low-income individuals and ex-offenders enhance
their abilities to secure jobs in the
construction industry, or successfully enter
registered union apprenticeship
programs. This program has a 80%
placement rate.
Lay-off and Strike Preparation and Support for workers and their families
Educational
Workshops for Unions and Their
Members
CSA provides information and
workshops on a variety of topics including
budgeting and financial management, retirement
planning, preparing for lay-off and job loss,
helping co-workers with substance abuse
problems, finding care for aging parents, and
other topics of interest to
workers.
Union Volunteer
Recruitment
Through the
area’s 180 local unions, CSA works to recruit
union volunteers for community projects.
Annually, we generate over 300 individual
members for various
projects.
CSA can be supported
through the United
Way, DC
One Fund, Combined
Federal
Campaigns, and the
Maryland
Charity Campaign. To
donate to CSA online, click
here: all donations are
tax-deductible and are greatly
appreciated!
CSA covers
Montgomery, Prince George’s, Charles, Calvert
and St. Mary’s counties in Maryland, the
District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia and
works with the Metropolitan Washington Council
AFL-CIO & the Northern Virginia Area Labor
Federation. As part of the AFL-CIO
Community Services Network, CSA has access to
the extensive United Way/Labor network across
the country and can make referrals for workers
in any state.
- Executive
Director:
Kathleen McKirchy
kmckirch@dclaborarchives.org
202-974-8221
(office)
202-974-8152 (fax)
-
Building Futures & Client Services
Coordinator Coordinator, Bilingual Services:
Sylvia Casaro Dietert
scasaro@dclaborarchives.org
202-974-8223
(office)
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CSA relies on the support of
workers, their unions, and the general
public. CSA can be supported through the
United
Way, DC
One Fund, Combined
Federal Campaigns, and the Maryland Charity
Campaign.
PLEASE DESIGNATE NUMBER
· 8253 for UNITED WAY and DC ONE
FUND
· 19579 for COMBINED FEDERAL CAMPAIGN
· 9320 for MARYLAND CHARITY CAMPAIGN
· 8396 for COMBINED VIRGINIA
CAMPAIGN
To
donate to CSA online, click
here.
All donations are tax-deductible
and are really greatly
appreciated!