ORCCA: Feed • House • Warm • Educate

Households that cannot afford to pay their home energy bill may be eligible for help with heating bills this winter. Oregon Coast Community Action is preparing for the winter energy assistance season and wants to remind everyone that they must apply for LIHEAP assistance every year. Names do not carry forward from year to year.

Phone lines will open Saturday August 4^th at 8:00AM and will remain open through the end of business Friday August 31^st. When you call, the automated system will ask for your full name and your mailing address. Please only call once. Applications will be mailed the first week of September to every Coos or Curry County household that signed up by phone before the deadline.

 

For Coos County the sign up phone number is (541) 435-7080 ext. 318

For Curry County the sign up phone number is (541) 435-7080 ext. 319

 

 

Dear Community Member,

The Board of Oregon Coast Community Action takes its responsibilities very seriously. Our charge is to soberly and actively weight the allegations made against ORCCA, to clarify facts from opinion, and find positive solutions where needed. The Board proposed three action steps to be taken; to create a position for a pantry liaison, to hire a management and communications consultant, and to conduct Board interviews of pantries, ORCCA staff, and community partners.

Our Year End 2011 Audit has arrived!

Click the link below to see!

• 2011

ORCCA would like to clarify many of the issues raised by the recent media account of our food handling practices. We are committed to following the standards set by our partnership agreement with Oregon Food Bank, which forward on standards set by the USDA, Feeding America, and the state of Oregon. In an attempt to be more transparent in regard to media inquiries about ORCCA and our relations with community partners, ORCCA prepared information for the World Newspaper in response to its requests for information, which we have provided here for your information.

Dear Community Partner,

Home Now, a new program to help homeless families, is ready to help its first family!  By working with the community, families like this one will receive the necessary support for them to become self sufficient and self-reliant.

Mom, Dad, and two children age 9 and 11 are due to move into the rooms at Park West today at noon, and we are still in dire need of the following products that would make the space livable and we need your help! If you can provide any of the products below today, please CALL US IMMEDIATELY.

Bedroom - bedding (pillows, sheets, blankets, etc.), dresser, hangers, lamps, alarm clock

Kitchen - pots, pans, cooking dishes, plates, bowls, utensils, glasses, cups, coffee pot, toaster, sharp knives, cutting board, paper goods, towels, dish rags, soap

Living Rooms - couches, chairs, tables, TV, TV stand, dvd player, toys appropriate for a boy and a girl, aged 9 and 11

Food - basics, cereal, dairy (milk, cheese, etc), peanut butter, jelly, etc.

If you can donate any of the above, please call Amanda D'Souza at (541) 435-7080 ext. 396 AS SOON AS POSSIBLE to make arrangements. If you are able to donate any of the larger items, we can arrange for a pick-up. As we have very limited space and no additional storage, please only consider donating the items we are specifically asking for.  There will be other opportunities for donations in the future.

Thank you.