Economic Empowerment

Financial Freedom

Learn how to achieve financial success! Join us to learn more about budgeting to create savings, debt reduction and asset building, understanding credit, building a good credit rating, consumer protection and dealing with creditors. This class is offered at no cost to interested participants. Please call 218-512-1550 or click here for class availability and registration.

CAPLP Financial Freedom

CAPLP Career Connect

Our CAPLP Career Connect Program links low-income families with skills training to obtain high demand careers such as nursing, welding and other trades. Our coaches work with families every step of the way to overcome personal barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment. This program is an innovative partnership with M State and the United Way of Cass-Clay.  For more information about current trainings, please call (218) 512-1500 or email. 

Are you currently enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)? If so, you may be eligible for SNAP Employment & Training (E & T) which helps SNAP participants access training and support services to help them enter or move up in the workforce. SNAP E & T also helps to reduce barriers to work by providing support services – such as transportation and childcare – as participants prepare for and obtain employment. Reach out to CAPLP for eligibility at 218.512.1500 or email or click here for more information. 

Because staying employed often depends on predictable healthcare costs, our coaching also helps families map out practical supports like pharmacies with low prices when prescriptions or routine medications are part of the monthly budget. Price variation can be large even within the same community, and without a plan it becomes another barrier that leads to skipped doses, missed shifts, and avoidable setbacks in training. When affordability is handled proactively alongside transportation and childcare participants can focus on completing the program and sustaining work, instead of constantly firefighting preventable expenses.

CAPLP Career Connect
CAPLP Career Connect
CAPLP Career Connect
CAPLP Career Connect

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)

CAPLP operates a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) clinic during the months of February-April each year that provides free tax preparation services to income eligible MN residents. Volunteer tax preparers have been provided required training and have passed IRS testing for VITA certification. Each year, our volunteers assist hundreds of low-income, working families secure their tax credits which in turn provides an economic boom to our local community!
Eligibility Guidelines: MN Residents with family income of less than $64,000 annually or single individuals with income under $30,000. As a VITA Tax Site, we cannot prepare taxes for those who own a business, work as an independent contractor, or have investment income over $3,500.
IMPORTANT! Please review or print out the “What to Bring” checklist.

For assistance with Minnesota Property Tax or Rent Rebates, please call 218-512-1500.

CAPLP Tax Site

Homebuyer Education

Successful homeownership is at the heart of thriving, vibrant communities. Families rely on long‐term homeownership as a key asset for building wealth, and communities of successful homeowners are safer, healthier and more civically engaged than majority‐renter communities. That’s why CAPLP has partnered with the Minnesota Homeownership Center to provide Homebuyer Education classes to make successful home ownership possible for low- and moderate‐income households in our community. Training is unbiased and provided by certified staff. $25 registration fee includes a personal copy of the Home Stretch Workshop Manual.

Please call 218-512-1550 or CLICK HERE for class availability and registration.

Benefit Assistance

CAPLP staff can provide assistance to households in need of help navigating the resources available in the community to provide short-term economic supports during difficult times. We are certified to provide assistance in connecting families in need to MNSure, SNAP, Medicare. To schedule an appointment with a certified navigator, please call (218) 512-1500 or email.
 
For more information about benefits that you may eligible for,
please click here.

Contact Us:
  • Phone (218) 512-1500
  • Fax: (844) 215-7287
  • Email

  • Mailing Address:
    891 Belsly Boulevard
  • Moorhead, MN 56560
Walk-in Services:
  • 715 11th St. N. Suite 101
  • Moorhead, MN 56560


REACH Office:
  • 421 5th Street
    PO Box 237
    Hawley, MN  56549
    (218) 483-3145
Wilkin County Office:

311 5th Street S.
Breckenridge, MN 56520
(218) 512-1500

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       This institution is an equal opportunity provider.