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 2009

History of REACH Funding

State REACH Grants: 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	Pennsylvania 2000
Georgia 2002	Rhode Island 2002
Massachusetts 2002	Washington 2000
Montana 2000	Wisconsin 2003
New Hampshire 2003

REACH Program Evaluations Summaries
Full reports may be available from the Clearinghouse.

Alaska 2001	Maryland 1996
Alabama 2000	Massachusetts 1996
Arizona 1998	Nebraska 1996
Connecticut 2004	Nebraska 1999
Indiana 1998	Oregon 1999
Illinois 1998	Oregon 2004
Iowa 1999	Pennsylvania 2000
Kentucky 1997	Utah 1998
Kentucky 2002	Washington 2003
Maine 1998

 

Energy Efficiency Education and Case Management

Client Education / Case Management Programs: A Selected Resource List (1996)

An Annotated Bibliography of Research-Verified Energy Education Programs (July 1994)

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