The Community Action Partnership of Madera County provides services to low and moderate income residents of Madera, Mariposa, and Fresno Counties. Its mission is to help people grow independently by offering programs in areas like victim services, childcare, housing assistance, and transportation. The agency has a 15-member board of directors and over 350 employees across various roles. It functions through cultural competence and empowering clients to help themselves with the support provided.

1. Agency Analysis
Jessica Mendoza
October 28th, 2013
Professor Kris Clarke
SWRK 180
Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:45a.m.

2. Community Action
Partnership of Madera
County
1225 Gill Ave.
Madera, Ca 93637
•Mission: “Helping people, changing lives, and making our
community a better place to live by providing resources and
services that inspire personal growth and independence.”
https://www.maderacap.org/TextPages/mission_vision_values.aspx
•Goal: Their goal is to be able to provide a variety of
programs for people in “need”. They offer the programs in
hopes that people can better themselves and then not need the
program later in life.

3. The Population the Agency
Address
•The agency helps out everyone who is
in “need”. I have seen different cultures
come in and get services.
•This agency serves low and moderate
income residents.

4. Community Context of the
Agency
•The Geographical community served is Madera, Mariposa,
and Fresno Counties.
•Income level as mentioned, anyone with low and moderate
income residents.
•Families get transported to the agency, some come in their
own cars, or others to come walking to the agency.
•The agency is involved in the community:
• Community Information Fairs,
• Relay for Life American Cancer Society,
• Children’s Hospital- Kids Day Campaign,
• Madera County Food Bank

5. Services Provided
•Victim Services
• Rape & Sexual Assault
• Domestic Violence
• Victim & Witness
•Energy Assistance
•Child Care
• Finding Quality Care
• Help pay for Child Care
•Head Start Program
•Rent/ Mortgage Assistance
•Shelter for Chronically Homeless Women with Disabilities
•Transportation
• For the Elderly & Sick

6. Organizational Structure
•CAPMC is a Non-Profit organization. It is funded by the California
Department of Education.
•They have a 15 member Tripartite Board of Directors
•1 Executive Director, Mattie Mendez
•11 Program Managers
•350 Employees
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Receptionist
Administrative Aid
Data Entry Technician
Food Service Worker
Instructional Aide I
Instructional Aide II/ Janitor
ETC.
•https://www.maderacap.org/TextPages/shared_governance.aspx

7. Organizational Structure
Continued…
•Managers of each Department supervises the Interns and
their Front-line workers.
•Role of Clients:
• The parents have a voice in the Board of Directors Meetings and are allowed
to make decisions they believe are best.
•Direct Services:
• Transportation
• Child Care Referrals
• Shelter
•Indirect Services:
• Community Organizing to try and promote for future funding and services.

8. How the Organization
Functions
•The agency provides Trustworthiness, Respect,
Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, & Citizenship.
•This agency is Cultural Competence. They just had a
Convention where one of the classes was on this topic.
•They Empower by helping people help themselves. They
provide with the aid and the client needs to make use of it.
•They also have Human Rights because they help anyone who
is in need coming into their agency.

9. Similar Agency:
Community Agency Services:
Ontario Works Child Care
Website: http://ottawa.ca/en
•What they do:
• “Child Care Information is a bilingual, non-profit information and referral
service on early learning and child care. The program has been mandated by the
City of Ottawa to manage the Child Care Centralized Waiting List for all
Licensed Child Care Centres and Home Child Care Agencies within the City of
Ottawa boundaries.”
•The following is what they offer:
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Employment and Financial Assistance
Daycare Services
Immigration Services
Housing Services
Youth Zone
•This agency does not have a personal website, that I could find,
but what I do see is the Cities website with all the amenities the
communities need to meet their needs.
https://www.childcareinformation.ca/cwlj-e.html