Client Self-Sufficiency
While LIHEAP was established to help pay home energy costs for low-income households and provide energy efficiency measures, historically grantees have attempted to expand that role by providing services that help clients attain energy self-sufficiency, thereby reducing dependency on LIHEAP. These services, often conducted in coordination with energy vendors or other low-income programs, have included energy-efficiency education and energy case management. The 1990 reauthorization of LIHEAP included two new provisions, The Residential Energy Assistance Challenge Program (REACH), and Assurance 16, which provide funding to assist grantees in helping clients attain energy self-sufficiency.
Tables
- State's Use of Assurance 16 -- FY 2013
- History of REACH Funding
- State REACH Grant Summaries: 2012, 2010 (2nd round), 2010 (1st round), 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
Toolkit
- Assurance 16 Services in FY 1995 & FY 1996: Opportunities for measuring the Results of LIHEAP Services (May 1997)
- REACH
- Residential Energy Assistance: Effectiveness of Demonstration Program as Yet Undetermined, U.S. General Accounting Office, (August 2001)
- REACH Background
- Detailed REACH Program Descriptions
- REACH Program Evaluations
- Alaska 1998
- Georgia 2002
- Massachusetts 2002
- Montana 2000
- Montana 2010
- New Hampshire 2003
- Rhode Island 2002
- Washington 2000
- Wisconsin 2003
- REACH Program Evaluations Summaries (Full reports may be available from the Clearinghouse.)