The mission of akron summit community action, inc. Is to reduce poverty and promote self-sufficiency. The broad objectives of the agency are: to provide quality services to low-income individuals and families; to advocate for a poverty-free community; to assist families to become self-reliant; to stimulate expansion of economic opportunity for the poor and the community through economic development-related activities; to maximize operational efficiency; to become a pacesetter for other community action agencies by encouraging and implementing innovative programs; to provide and encourage community leadership in matters that affect low-income individuals and families.

Child education:the head start/early head start program provides high-quality early childhood education in age-appropriate, nurturing and secure center-based infant/toddler and pre-school learning environments. The home based option is also offered for 100 early head start families and 16 pregnant mothers. The program goals are to promote healthy prenatal outcomes for pregnant women, enhance the development of very young children, promote healthy family functioning, and promote school readiness by enhancing the social and cognitive development of children and families while fostering self-sufficiency and life-long problem-solving skills. Head start/early head start provides education and early childhood development, health services, nutrition services, services to children with special needs and family development services to 1,494 low-income children ages 6 weeks to 5 years old and their families. In addition to the scope of services above, the early head start program also provides a home-based pre-natal education/curriculum to enrolled pregnant women and their children, promoting healthy prenatal outcomes while enhancing knowledge of infant/toddler development and developing healthy family functioning. The entire scope of head start/early head start services is responsive and appropriate to each child's and family's developmental, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic heritage. energy assistance:the emergency home energy assistance program (e-heap) assists low-income households that are threatened with a utility shut-off notice or that have run out of bulk fuel, such as oil or propane. The winter crisis program (wcp) assists low-income households in danger of having their gas or electric utilities disconnected, have already had service disconnected, or those with less than a ten day supply of bulk fuel. Through the summer crisis program (scp), assistance is made to eligible households with an electric utility payment. Throughout the year, akron summit community action, inc. Also enrolls or re-verifies gas and electric utility customers in the percentage of income payment plan (pipp). Pipp is an extended payment arrangement that requires regulated gas and electric companies to accept payments based on a percentage of the monthly household income. community services:community service programs provide emergency services to low-income families and individuals, including assistance with food, clothing, household items, rent, utilities, optical and dental needs.