KACAP is your connection to local Community Action Agencies!
The Community Actions Agencies provide direct services to low-income Kansas and work with communities to address the causes and consequences of poverty. We can help you connect with the local agency in your area.
KACAP collaborates on State and Federal Policy Initiatives!
We are actively involved in anti-poverty issues including nutrition, childhood education, minimum/living wage and elderly services. If you have an anti-poverty issues, contact us. We may be able to add our support.
KACAP is your source for the Community Action Story!
We would love to share what we know with you. A KACAP staff person is available to speak at conferences, in classrooms, or to agency meetings. Please get in touch.
The Community Action Code of Ethics
We, as community action professionals ever respectful of cultural diversity, dedicate ourselves to eliminate poverty in the midst of plenty in this nation by opening to everyone the opportunity for education and training; the opportunity to work; and the opportunity to live in decency and dignity, and commit ourselves to:
- Recognize that the chief function of the community action movement at all times is to serve the best interests of the poor.
- Accept as a personal duty the responsibility to keep up-to-date on emerging issues and to conduct ourselves with professional competence, fairness and effectiveness.
- Respect the structure and responsibilities of the board of directors, provide them with facts and advice as a basis for their decision making, and uphold and implement the policies adopted by the board of directors.
- Keep the community informed about issues affecting the poor and to facilitate communication among the poor, the non-poor private sector, and locallly elected public officials.
- Conduct our organizational and operational duties with positive leadership exemplified by open communication, creativity, dedication, and compassion.
- Exercise whatever discretionary authority we have under the law to promote the interests of the poor.
- Serve the community action movement with respect, concern, and responsiveness, recognizing that service to the poor is beyond service to oneself.
- Demonstrate the highest standards of personal intergrity, truthfulness, and fortitude in our community action activities in order to inspire confidence in the community action movement.
- Oerform our professsional duties in such a way so as not to realize undue personal gain.
- Avoid any interest or activity which conflicts with the conduct of our official duties.
- Protect confidentiality in the course of our official duties.
- Strive for personal professional excellence and encourage the professional development of our associates and those seeking to become community action executives.