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      —   New Central Office Building (Northeast View), 1700 West Fifth Street, Owensboro, Kentucky
New home occupied May 17, 2009. Open House held October 20, 2009.     Open House Invitation


AACS, Inc. employs 760 Associates across the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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

Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Families

Kentucky Transportation Cabinet
Office of Transportation Delivery

Kentucky Housing Corporation  

Department for Local Government

Latest AACS, Inc. News:

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.

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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.

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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

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