Mission and Objectives

Helping Central Texans improve economic self-reliance through a wide range of services and community partnerships.

Strategic Commitment 1: CAICT will elevate the visibility of the agency and its program services through increasing community engagement, developing new partnerships and improving marketing, branding and fundraising strategies.

Strategic Commitment 2: Community Action will improve inter-agency connectedness by providing opportunity for individual programs to gain knowledge of other CAI programs and by developing an inter-agency referral process to more comprehensively serve our clients.

Strategic Commitment 3: Community Action will prioritize the development of a healthy workplace culture where all employees are equitably valued, competitively compensated, and regularly offered many and varied opportunities to grow and develop.

Strategic Commitment 4: Community Action is committed to the reduction of poverty, the revitalization of low-income communities, and the empowerment of people with low incomes to become more self-sufficient.

Strategic Commitment 5: Community Action will ensure that low- income individuals and families served in the community will have access to affordable health care.

Strategic Commitment 6: Community Action in collaboration with other Early Childhood Education providers will ensure that all enrolled children (birth to five years old) in Hays and Caldwell Counties will enter school ready to learn.

Strategic Commitment 7: Community Action will ensure that all low-income individuals in the rural capital area have access to education and resources to build the multiple literacies required for full and equitable participation in the community (i.e. language, numeracy, digital, health, family, financial, and civics/citizenship) and the career training necessary to obtain a living wage job.

Strategic Commitment 8: Community Action will ensure that youth have access to positive youth development opportunities that promote leadership development, health and wellness, and college and career readiness.