Community Action Agency of Greater Kansas City (CAAGKC), formerly United Services Community Action Agency, was incorporated December 14, 1978. Community Action Agencies are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty. CAAGKC is chartered by the State of Missouri, as a private, non-profit corporation, serving the counties of Jackson, Clay, and Platte. CAAGKC’s purpose is to provide stimulation and incentive for the three-county area to mobilize its resources and combat poverty through community action programs. CAAGKC’s mission is to assist low-income residents of Jackson, Clay, and Platte counties, Missouri in their efforts to become self-sufficient by providing programs and services to improve the quality of their lives and the opportunity to eliminate the causes of poverty. CAAGKC envisions communities where all people thrive and discrimination in all its forms is not present. We envision our agency as a state-of-the-art organization that has all the human, technological and material resources needed to best serve the disadvantaged men, women, and children of our community. We envision a nation where people have unrestrained opportunity and poverty is no longer a threat to the future of our children.