Impact and Programs
Accomplishments
CAPLP was incorporated on August 2, 1965, as Clay-Wilkin Opportunity Council (CWOC), and in the coming year we are delighted to be celebrating our 60 Anniversary of working to improve the lives of the children, families, individuals, and seniors across the communities we serve! When our organization began 60 years ago our team included a handful of team members and programming consisted of a summer Head Start program and several community outreach workers serving Clay and Wilkin Counties in Minnesota. Today we have over 135 team members that provide services throughout the Northwest Region of Minnesota as well as the entire State of North Dakota! In 2024, CAPLP provided services to 4,685 unduplicated individuals across all our programs and services. This includes 1,050 children, 633 senior citizens, and 1,669 child care providers. This is almost a 20% increase in people served and lives transformed over the past year!
Current Goals
Our team is continuing to work toward achievement of our 5-year Strategic Plan by working toward the following broad agency-wide goals: Individuals and families with low incomes are stable and achieve economic security; Communities where people with low incomes live are healthy and offer economic opportunity; People with low incomes are engaged and active in building opportunities; Agency capacity supports high achievement; Organizational culture built on embracing perspectives; Employees continue to be engaged and active in shaping the future of CAPLP and understand their impact on the Community Action movement.
Community or Constituency Served
CAPLP is a part of a nationwide network of local agencies that are working to help people and change lives. CAPLP started serving individuals and families in 1965 and we are celebrating our 60th Anniversary of working to improve the lives of the children, families, individuals, and seniors across the communities we serve. Today we operate over 30 programs focused on assisting households with low incomes. These programs and services are housed in one of four main divisions. CAPLP's Housing programs focus on assisting those who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Economic Empowerment services include workforce development, free tax preparation, aging services, case management for New Americans, and Whole Family/2 Gen work. Childcare Connections ensures that families can afford high quality childcare and assists childcare providers in improving their programs. Lastly, Head Start works with pregnant moms and children 0-5 to ensure that they are ready for kindergarten.
Geographic Area Served
Lakes & Prairies Community Action Partnership, Inc. (CAPLP) provides services in the West Central region of Minnesota in Clay and Wilkin Counties. Our largest community served is Moorhead, which is the fastest growing metropolitan area outside of the metro area. Some programs serve a larger geographic area, including our Child Care Connections divisions which serves 21 counties in Northwest Minnesota and the entire state of North Dakota.
