Hopkins County Assistance Center

About

The PACS(Pennyrile Allied Community Services)/Hopkins County Assistance Center is here to help and serve the citizens of Hopkins County.

Mission

The mission of the Pennyrile Allied Community Services, Inc. is to reduce and eliminate poverty by providing the opportunity for education, training, work and the opportunity to live with dignity and decency. This philosophy focuses on self-sufficiency for the client and the reduction of dependency where possible.

In carrying out the acknowledged mission, the key elements in the functions and operations of PACS are:

a. To coordinate human service efforts throughout the Pennyrile Area to avoid duplication, improve delivery of services and relate programs to one another;

b. To plan and evaluate long range and short range strategies for overcoming poverty in the Pennyrile Area;

c. To mobilize public and private resources in support of low income and elderly programs;

d. To encourage participation, to the maximum degree feasible, by low-income residents of communities in the development and operation of community action programs for their betterment;

e. To collect and assemble pertinent information and data available from all agencies of the State, Federal and local governments, as well as private agencies concerning issues of elderly and poverty and disseminate such information to interested parties;

f. To provide technical assistance, directly or through service contracts, and to improve and enhance programs of a human service nature;

g. To measure and evaluate, directly or through contracts, the impact of the human service efforts in order to determine the effectiveness of programs in achieving state goals, impact on related programs, and the structure and mechanism for the delivery of services; and

h. To coordinate and mobilize volunteers to enhance human service programs and promote community services.

The Pennyrile Allied Community Services, Inc. administers the Community Services Block Grant through a contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Department for Community Based Services.
The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) program is designed to provide services and programs that directly and indirectly address the needs of the low-income consumer, through a network of other neighborhood-based organizations, for the reduction of poverty, the vitalization of low-income communities and the empowerment of low-income families and individuals in rural and urban areas to become fully self-sufficient.

"This project is funded, in part, under a contract with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from the Community Services Block Grant of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services".