Community Services Block Grants

Community Services Block Grants is a grant from the Alabama Department of Economic and Community Affairs (ADECA) that funds community action agencies providing anti-poverty services to low-income residents across Alabama.

The program, supported by federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, supports 18 community action agencies statewide in delivering employment, housing, nutrition, emergency assistance, and other essential services. Eligible recipients are designated community action agencies in Alabama. Award amounts vary based on federal allocations.

Community Services Block Grant – ADECA ADECA / Community Services Block Grant The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is funded through a grant from the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Currently there are 18 community action agencies located throughout the state with a presence in all 67 counties, who administer the CSBG grant. The Community Services Block Grant Act was enacted to assist low-income individuals and families to achieve self-sufficiency. Services provided by the community action agencies vary based on the identified needs in the agency’s service areas.

The services provided are to enable families/individuals to accomplish one or more of the following objectives: To secure and retain meaningful employment To attain an adequate education To make better use of available income To obtain and maintain adequate housing and suitable living environment To obtain emergency assistance to meet immediate and urgent individual and family needs including the need for health services, nutrition, food, housing, and employment related assistance To remove obstacles and solve problems which block the achievement of self-sufficiency To achieve greater participation in the affairs of the community To enhance youth and family development, including after school child-care and youth mediation To provide an emergency basis for the provision of such supplies and services, nutritious foodstuffs, and related necessary to counteract conditions of starvation and malnutrition among the poor In order to receive assistance, the applicant’s household income must not exceed 125% of the federally established poverty level.

If you would like to apply for CSBG assistance, please contact the agency that services your county. ADECA does not accept or process applications for assistance. Click on the PDF document below or click the county you live in on the interactive map to find the agency that serves your county.

CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Agency of Northwest Alabama Call center: 256-764-5142 Main office: 256-766–4330 Website and online appointment scheduler: Lauderdale, Colbert & Franklin Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Agency Huntsville/Madison and Limestone Counties, Inc. Huntsville, AL 35810-1758 Call center: 256-907-1550 Main office: 256-851-9800 Website and online appointment scheduler: Madison, Limestone Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Walker County Community Action Agency Main office: 205-221-4010 http://www.

caawalker. org/ CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action of Etowah County Main office: 256-546-9271 https://www. communityaction-etowah.

org CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Agency of Talladega, Clay, Randolph, Calhoun, and Cleburne Counties Main office: 256-362-6611 Calhoun, Clay, Cleburne, Randolph, and Talladega Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Partnership of Middle Alabama, Inc. Call center: 205-287-0139 Website and online appointment scheduler: Main office: 205-258-5198 Autauga, Chilton, Elmore and Shelby Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Committee, Inc. of Chambers-Tallapoosa-Coosa 170 South Broadnax Street Main office: 256-825-4287 Chambers, Coosa, and Tallapoosa Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Montgomery Community Action Committee Montgomery, AL 36104-4424 Call center: 334-230-5259 Main office: 334-263-3474 CSBG Map and Contact List Organized Community Action Program, Inc. 507 North Three Notch Street Main office: 334-566-1712 Bullock, Butler, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Lowndes, and Pike Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Agency of Northeast Alabama, Inc. 1481 McCurdy Avenue South Rainsville, AL 35986-5221 Call center: 855-287-1730 Main office: 256-638-4430 Website and online appointment scheduler: Blount, Cherokee, DeKalb, Jackson, Jefferson, Marshall and St.

Clair Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Mobile Community Action, Inc. Call center: 251-206-6117 Main office: 251-457-5700 Website and online appointment scheduler: http://www. mcamobile.

org/ Mobile and Washington Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Macon Russell Community Action Agency, Inc. Macon County call center: 334-439-4009 Russell County call center: 334-408-4066 Main office: 334-727-6100 Macon and Russell Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Pickens County Community Action Carrollton, AL 35447-2232 Main office: 205-367-8166 http://www. caapickens.

org/ CSBG Map and Contact List Southeast Alabama Community Action Partnership, Inc. Enterprise, AL 36330-3216 Call center: 844-680-2044 Main office: 334-347-0881 https://southeastalabamacommunityactionpartnership.

org/ Barbour, Coffee, Geneva, Henry, and Houston Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Agency of South Alabama Call center: 877-246-7836 Main office: 251-626-2646 Website and online appointment scheduler: Baldwin, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Marengo, Monroe and Wilcox Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Action Partnership of North Alabama Inc. Morgan County call center: 256-260-4050 Cullman County call center: 256-255-0454 Lawrence County call center: 256-522-0019 Main office: 256-355-7843 and dial 100 Website and online appointment scheduler: Cullman, Lawrence and Marion, Morgan, Winston Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Community Service Programs of West Alabama Inc. Tuscaloosa, AL 35401-4807 Call center: 833-836-7817 Clients 60 and older: 205-469-0386 Main office: 205-752-5429 Bibb, Choctaw, Dallas, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Perry, Sumter, and Tuscaloosa Counties CSBG Map and Contact List Alabama Council on Human Relations, Inc. Main office: 334-821-8336 Call center: 334-246-5266 Website and online appointment scheduler: CSBG Map and Contact List FY 2025-2026 CSBG State Plan PY 2025 – 2026 CSBG State Plan This website is supported by Grant Number 2501ALCOSR from the Office of Community Services/Community Services Block Grant within the Administration for Children and Families, a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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