SERVICES

LCAC Client Service programs fall into four main areas:

Bridging

LCAC addresses the root causes of poverty by offering classes, workshops, experiences, and resources. In addition to providing necessary supplies, we help improve literacy and provide enriching educational activities for all ages. We help remove employment-related barriers that prevent households from becoming self-sufficient.

Bridging Programs Include:

English Classes

LCAC offers basic and intermediate English courses to teach adult English Language Learners (ELLs) the skills needed to speak, understand, read, and write in English. The curriculum focuses on language skills essential to the workplace, community, and family.

Basic English courses are offered in partnership with the English Empowerment Center.
Intermediate Courses are offered in partnership with Pillars 4 Humanity.

Computer Skills

This four-week course covers computer basics, Microsoft Office, email, G-Suite, and more.

Job Readiness

LCAC connects adults with agencies that help with resumes, cover letters, and assist with the job search.

Adult and Kid's Nutrition and Cooking

Over a series of three classes, clients learn about nutrition through meal preparation, food safety, and sensible food shopping tips. After learning recipes in class clients receive ingredients to replicate the recipes at home. At the end of the course clients are presented with a graduation certificate.

Budgeting Classes

Households participate in sessions led by skilled volunteers/agencies to strengthen family budgeting and work to resolve financial crises. We are currently working with the Financial Empowerment Center.

Kid's Activities

Throughout the year LCAC hosts various hands-on and enriching activities for kids. These activities include seasonal arts & crafts events, educational classes, and summer camps.

Sustainability

LCAC’s Sustainability program provides emergency rent, utility, and vehicle assistance to help avoid financial crises. This program aims to keep families housed and provide support services that will stabilize individuals and families. LCAC helps assess a family’s financial situation and encourages individuals and families to engage in conversation centered around the household budget.

All applicants must be registered LCAC clients and make an appointment with our Financial Assistance Specialist. Please contact the Client Services Team / lcacclientservices@gmail.com for further questions.

Sustainability Programs Include:

Rental Assistance

LCAC provides rental assistance to help qualified households avoid eviction.

Utility Assistance

LCAC provides utility bill assistance to help at-risk households avoid disconnection of utilities.

Vehicle Repair Assistance

LCAC helps qualified clients with vehicle repairs in partnership with Gunston Shell Service Center. Our goal is to help clients with their commutes to jobs, schools, or daycare providers. A new grant from the Fairfax County Innovation Fund combined with individual donations we have received from the community make this possible.

Emergency Food

LCAC works to eliminate hunger and address nutrition-related issues that impact the overall physical health of families. Providing families the opportunity to secure groceries weekly through the food pantry helps to alleviate impossible choices that food insecure households throughout the U.S. are forced to make; choosing between food & safe housing, health care, or child care.

Emergency Food Pantry Programs Include:

Food Pantry

Registered clients can visit the food pantry once a week to collect their perishable & non-perishable groceries.

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Period Products

Thanks to our partners at BRAWS and JLNV we are able to have regularly available pads, tampons, and other menstrual products to distribute on a monthly basis.

Clean Start

The objective of Clean Start is to provide personal care items and hygiene kits to improve quality of life and free up income for other essential household expenses. Care items include dental products, hair care items, deodorants, soaps, lotions, shaving products, and more as available.

Diapers and More

We distribute diapers, wipes, and other baby supplies to our clients once a month in the pantry. We are able to do this thanks to the DC Diaper Bank who donates almost every month, HomeAid Diapers for their annual donation to our pantry, and other individual donors who help make a difference.

All Can
Be Healthy

LCAC’s All Can Be Healthy (ACBH) Initiative responds to the need to make health resources more widely available to underserved individuals and families. ACBH focuses on expanded nutritional assistance and accessible health services. The goal is to enable residents to be healthier, allowing households more stability. The All Can Be Healthy initiative is made possible with funding from the Potomac Health Foundation and Sentara Cares.

ALL CAN BE HEALTHY Programs Include:

Health Partners

As part of our effort for to make health resources more available to our clients LCAC has developed a schedule where different organizations visit during our food pantry distributions. At our pantry and special events these health partners provide or refer underserved individuals for services.

Mobile Dental Clinics

In partnership with MCCP Foundation LCAC facilitates Mobile Dental Clinics that provide dental screenings and referrals to help uninsured children.

Health Messaging

In order to promote health LCAC has integrated a Green-Yellow-Red nutritional labeling system in our food pantry to help guide clients to healthier food choices. We also feature themed health messaging that is updated every month on the pantry bulletin board.

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Be Healthy

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