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.
CLICK HERE to download the 2013 updated donation flyer!
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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NOW!
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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!