Six national goals relate to families, communities and agencies as follows:

Level	National CSBG Goals	Goal Statements
Family	Goal 1	Low-income people become more self-sufficient.
Family	Goal 6	Low-inme people, especially vulnerable populations, achieve their potential by strengthening family and other supportive environments.
Community	Goal 2	The conditions in which low-income people live are improved.
Community	Goal 3	Low-income people own a stake in their community.
Agency	Goal 4	Partnerships among supporters and providers of services to low-income people are achieved.
Agency	Goal 5	Agencies increase their capacity to achieve results.

Because Community Action Agencies operate in rural areas as well as in urban areas, and deploy services according to community plans, the array of services varies from community to community.  One common denominator is the goal of self-sufficiency for people who participate in their services.  Reaching this goal may mean providing daycare for a struggling single mother as she completes her General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate, moves through a community college course and finally is on her own supporting her family without federal assistance.  It may mean collaborating to develop housing for low-income families because of a local shortage in affordable housing; sponsoring a health clinic for services that would not otherwise be available to people in the area; or responding to a local factory closing by collaborating to make certain that worker-retraining supports are coordinated.

Although they are not identical, most CAAs will provide some, if not all, of the services listed below:

• employment and training programs
• transportation and child care for low-income workers
• housing and weatherization services
• energy assistance programs
• nutrition programs
• family development programs
• senior services
• programs for low-income youth
• educational assistance
• budgeting and money management training
• micro-business development help for low-income entrepreneurs
• a variety of crisis and emergency safety net services
• local community and economic development projects
• community healthcare

CSBG funds many of these services directly.  More importantly, CSBG is the glue which holds together multiple services that meet broad community needs.