Community Action Partnership in downtown San Diego operates as a division of the County of San Diego's Health and Human Services Agency, administering federal anti-poverty programs from 1255 Imperial Avenue, Suite 720. The agency channels Community Services Block Grant and LIHEAP funding into direct assistance for low-income households, connecting families to utility-bill relief, weatherization upgrades, and workforce-development referrals through the same regional intake system used by 211 San Diego. CAP San Diego aligns its programming with the county's Live Well San Diego framework, which organizes public health and social services across six geographic regions — Central, North Central, East, North Coastal, North Inland, and South — to match interventions to each community's poverty profile. The Resident Leadership Academy trains community members in high-poverty neighborhoods to become facilitators and advocates, building a pipeline of local leaders who feed data back into the agency's biennial community-needs assessment. That ground-level intake work connects CAP to a network of downtown service providers addressing overlapping needs in housing, food access, and family stability, including Rachel's Women's Center, which provides daytime shelter and case management for women in the surrounding blocks. The agency's most complex annual undertaking is the community-needs assessment itself — a multi-month data-collection and stakeholder-engagement process that determines how federal block-grant dollars are allocated across San Diego County's competing service priorities.