Programs

• Workwise provides employment related services to Philadelphians eligible for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. (TANF)

   

• Fatherhood Initiative rebuilds families by strengthening relationships between non-custodial fathers and their children.  

• Foster Grandparent offers seasoned seniors with limited income volunteer opportunites that make a child's life brighter.

• Community Engagement Community Engagement Unit empowers neighborhoods, individuals and families, with limited incomes, to reach self-sufficiency by providing program services and coordinating resoures. 

In the 1960's, poverty threatened to ravish the United States.  In an effort to fight poverty, Community Action was created through the Economic Opportunity Act (EOA) of 1964. This ambitious statute was designed to eliminate the causes and consequences of poverty in the United States. The EOA established federal and state offices of Economic Opportunity, and created new community-based organizations called Community Action Agencies.
In 1964, a federal mandate was passed to fight poverty. As a result, the Mayor's Office of Community Services (MOCS) was established. MOCS is the Community Action Agency for Philadelphia and the largest in Pennsylvania.