Page for the Office of Human Affairs, Newport News, Virginia

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(Left to Right) Doug Baskin (Planning), Cynthia Haggins (Children Services), Audrea Lambert (Finance/Personnel), Lisha Shannon (Assistant to the Executive Director), Robert D. Ayers, Jr. (Executive Director), Ethel Snead (HeadStart), Emmagene Slade (Housing Services), and, W.H. Lester, Jr. (Community Services and Information Systems)

Celebrating our 39th Year!

The Office of Human Affairs, established as a community action agency in 1965, provides many diversified service programs designed to assist low-income residents. The mission of OHA is to plan, develop and implement programs that foster self-sufficiency through educational, social, physical and economic development. This is accomplished by supporting, supplementing and coordinating efforts with other agencies to develop programs, and to offer a variety of services designed to assist low-income persons in their endeavors to improve their quality of life and to become self-sufficient. For thirty-six years, OHA has provided various programs funded by federal, state and local sources to promote self-sufficiency among less fortunate residents of Newport News, Hampton and Poquoson, Virginia.

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