Thank you Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency!

Over the course of the 2012 tax season it has been our great pleasure to work on several occasions with the Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency. 

In addition to offering free tax clinics, the Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency provides its community with a phenomenal adult literacy and GED program, offers access to weatherization services through HWAP, maintains a food pantry and recycling center, and helps people apply for a number of other social service programs.

Tonya Dobbins, and all of the staff, have done their very best to ensure that our visits to their site were extremely successful. We appreciate all of their hard work, especially since it enabled the Mobile Express to help more than 50 individual clients file over 100 tax applications over several visits to the agency.

If you are in Fairfield County, and are interested in becoming involved with the Lancaster-Fairfield Community Action Agency, feel free to give them a call at (740) 653-4146 or complete this volunteer application  to explore the many ways you can make a difference in your community!

Pictured: The Lancaster – Fairfield Community Action Agency building in Lancaster, from the organization’s website, http://www.faircaa.org/. 

Building Bridges

As a mobile enrollment specialist on The Ohio Benefit Bank Mobile Express I am constantly trying to develop connections that will allow us to better serve the clients at the events which we attend.  One of the ways this can be accomplished is by working alongside other organizations who share our aims to help people in need.

Recently, The Mobile Express had an opportunity to work with The Breathing Association Mobile Medical Unit at Lutheran Social Services’ Champion Avenue Food Pantry in Columbus. 

The Breathing Association promotes lung health and helps prevent lung disease through education, detection and service in the low-income and minority populations of Columbus.

They provided some great services to the clients at the LSS-Champion Avenue Food Pantry, such as a free health screening, an opportunity to schedule an appointment at The Breathing Association’s free clinic where they could renew their prescriptions, and even offered a free flu shot!

It is mutually beneficial relationships like this one that can really assist people who are trying to help Ohioans in need.  If you are in Franklin County, and are interested in contacting The Breathing Association Mobile Medical Unit regarding your next event, you can contact them at (614) 273-2843 or visit their website.