Its 450-employee Head Start program is, for the third time, a national
Program of Excellence — a distinction held by fewer than 25 agencies across the nation.
Audubon Area is one of the premier human/family and community services agencies in Kentucky. Audubon's central office is located in Owensboro, Kentucky, a known historic rivertown on the banks of the Ohio River.
Audubon Area primarily serves 34 Western Kentucky counties, from the Ohio River to the Kentucky-Tennessee border and from Mammoth Cave to the Mississippi River.
The programs providing service include Child Care Assistance, Community Services Block Grant, Counseling Services, Green River Intra-County Transit System (GRITS), Head Start, Lincolnshire, Senior Service Corps, and Weatherization.
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AACS is a Special District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
Major Direct Grantors and
Contract Funders include:
US Department of Health and Human Services/Administration for Children
and Families,
Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Families/Department of Community
Based Services,
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban
Development,
Kentucky Housing Corporation, Federal Corporation
for National Service,
Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice, Kentucky
Department of Education
(and sixteen Green River and Pennyrile Area school districts),
the University
of Kentucky, Western Kentucky University,
United Way of the Ohio Valley,
United Way of Henderson, City of Owensboro,
and Green River
Area Counties of Daviess, Hancock, McLean, Ohio, Union and Webster,
Atmos
Energy and the Kentucky Association for Community Action
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| NEW PROGRAMS & SERVICES Owensboro Regional Recovery, LLC. AACS, Inc. is a Co-General Partner with Lighthouse Recovery, Inc. in the Owensboro Regional Recovery Center. Construction was completed in December 2009 and the center (ORR) is expected to begin services February 1, 2010. This link will take you to a brief overview of ORR, which is part of the ten-center Recovery Kentucky network. PDC Companies, Little Rock, Arkansas, was AACS' development partner in this venture. PDC's construction subsidiary also built the facility. Presidents Place. Kentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) awarded $9.4 million (over 10 years) in tax credits to Audubon's Presidents Place project, a sixty-unit senior housing development to be built of Highway 54 East behind The Springs on Friendship Drive, Owensboro. KHC subsequently awarded $7,587,485 through its ARRA-funded Tax Credit Exchange program to fund the project, which is presently under construction. The Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati has also awarded $599,980 to the Presidents Place development. Wabuck Development Company, Leitchfield, Kentucky, is AACS' development partner in this new venture. Presidents Place will also house the Community Nonprofit Resource Center, a service "home" for many local community nonprofits. This community facility is being developed in association with the Public Life Foundation of Owensboro, the Hager Educational Foundation and other community partners. Medicaid Transportstion Brokerage. AACS has been awarded two contracts: Through its GRITS system, services will be brokered in the 7-county Green River area and jointly with GRITS and RTEC in the 12-county Barren River Area. More >> More>> The Learning Villa. AACS, Inc. is a Co-General Partner with Wabuck Development , Leitchfield. The 56-unit property is expected to open in June 2008. Owensboro. Audubon is also partnering with Wabuck in the development of the Horizon Place senior citizens residential property and Independence Heights, an innovative residential facility for youth aging out of Kentucky's Foster Care System. KentuckyWorks. AACS, Inc. now operates the KentuckyWorks program in 34 Western Kentucky counties. More>> Financial Procedures Manual NOTE: Amended & Appended as of December 15, 2009 Adobe Acrobat (.PDF) file Travel forms on AACS IntraNet AACS Grants Management Process January 2009 AACS Personnel Policies and Related 2010 Strategic Work Plan For more information, contact the executive director, at 270/686-1610 More Strategic Initiatives >> Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity... President-elect Obama's Anti-poverty Goals Celebtrate Excellence... Nomination Form Guidelines |
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