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Core Community Augusta

Mission

Our Mission: Engaging the community to lift families out of poverty.

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Core Community Augusta believes no one should live in poverty and we are committed to empowering and equipping families to move up and out of poverty successfully.


Our model focuses on three stages: Crisis management and stabilization, education and job placement and job retention, advancement and economic stability.

The individuals and heads of family getting out of poverty are known as “Core Leaders.” They are asked to:

  • Enroll in the Core Leaders Training Class (Getting Ahead) to build financial, emotional and social resources as well as an Economic Stability Plan,

  • Partner with trained middle- to high-income community volunteers, called “Core Friends,” who support a Core Leader’s efforts through networking, listening and guidance,

  • Attend weekly community meetings with peers, Core Friends and other interested community members for planning, support and networking opportunities, and

  • Support each other through discussions around systemic barriers to escaping poverty and the strategies needed to remove them.

Core Community Augusta believes in the evidence that positive relationships and peer support are crucial for people to journey completely out of poverty. This model focuses on multi-generational poverty resolution and it strengthens communities in the process by bringing people together.

General Information

We meet every Monday from 5:30-7:30 pm at First Baptist Church, 1501 State Street. We partner with community groups to provide a meal and childcare every Monday night. 

Interested in joining the class, volunteering, or partnering with Core Community Augusta?
Contact CCA Coach, Heather Plaza at 316.312.9464 heatherplaza@essdack.org or CCA Community Liaison, Mark Kenyon at 316.619.3157

For more information about YCM Core Communities check out our website at http://youthcoreministries.org/what-we-do/corecommunity/