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.
2013 Labor
Night at the Nats is coming up on July
19th!
The Nationals will play against the
Dodgers and all tickets are $10. All money
raised goes to the Community Services Agency's
Emergency Assistance Fund. For more
information, contact CSA Executive Director
Kathleen McKirchy at kmckirchy@dclabor.org.
Click
here to download the 2013
flyer.
Applications are
now being accepted for
the Building Futures program
Click
here to download the flyer
and learn
more.
CSA IN THE
NEWS:
'Building
Futures' Inspires Unemployed, Helps Meet
D.C.-Area Construction Skills
Gap via Huffington
Post
Attention FEDERAL
WORKERS:
CLICK
HERE for info on how to PREPARE NOW FOR POSSIBLE
SEQUESTRATION ACTIONS THAT COULD IMPACT YOUR
JOB! (posted:
2/8/2013)
UNITED WAY, CFC & DC
ONE FUND
CLICK
HERE to download updated donation
fliers!
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.
New 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.
CSA's
News You Can Use: The Best Way to Help Sandy's
Victims
With hundreds of thousands of
New York and New Jersey residents still in the
dark and cold after the double whammy of
Hurricane Sandy and last week’s winter storm,
the Community Services Agency and the AFL-CIO
are urging financial support. “Money is the
best thing to send!” says CSA Executive
Director Kathleen McKirchy. “It doesn’t
need to be sorted, schlepped or delivered and
it helps folks the most.” Contributions can
be made on-line to the Hurricane
Sandy Recovery Fund.
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 70%
placement rate.
Hospitality Express 4
Success
This is a 15-week training program for
Prince George’s County resident aged
18-26. Offered in
partnership with the Training Source and Prince
George’s Community College,
the training is funded by a grant from
the Greater Washington Workforce Development
Collaborative, an initiative of the Community
Foundation of the National Capital
Area.
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.
ARCHIVES
-
(1/27/2011) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Help For Striking Or
Furloughed Workers
- (12/21/2010) CSA's
"News You Can Use": New Credit Clinic from
Union Plus
- (10/12/2010) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Deadline Looms for
Stop-Loss Retro Pay
- (9/1/2010) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Knowing The Difference
Between A Scam And A Good Deal
-
(5/13/2010) Feeding
Solidarity At Daycon Strike
- (2/3/2010)
CSA's
"News You Can Use": Free Tax Prep For
Low-Income Residents
- (1/21/2010) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Protecting Against
BPA
- (7/10/2009) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Vetting Health
Sites
- (7/1/2009) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Free Financial
Advice
- (6/4/2009) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Free Workshop On Health
Information
- (6/1/2009) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Providing For The
Basics
- (5/27/2009) CSA's
"News You Can Use": Free Foreclosure
Assistance
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@dclabor.org
202-974-8221
(office)
202-974-8152 (fax)
-
Building Futures & Client Services
Coordinator Coordinator, Bilingual Services:
Sylvia Casaro Dietert
scasaro@dclabor.org
202-974-8223
(office)
DONATE
NOW!
Click
here to donate to CSA
DOWNLOAD UPDATED DONATION
FLIERS!
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!