Impact Areas

United Way of Henderson County
Community Impact Areas
2010/2011Funded Programs

Nurturing Children & Youth

Instill character and self-confidence to successfully meet life’s challenges by providing a safe, comfortable learning environment and positive opportunities for our children.

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentors children who are primarily from single parent families.
  • Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Boone Council: A year-round program to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices throughout their lifetime.
  • Boys & Girls Club: The program targets at-risk youth to inspire and enable them to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens.
  • Children & Family Resource Center: The Child Care Resource & Referral program provides comprehensive behavior intervention services designed to address the needs of young children enrolled in early childhood education programs (day care and preschool).
  • Girl Scouts Peaks to Piedmont: Provides character-building activities for girls in a safe and positive environment.
  • Helping Hand Development Center: Provides quality child development services for children ages 3-5, with a unique commitment to serve those who are physically, emotionally, and educationally challenged. Coordinates specialized instruction and therapies for developmentally delayed children.
  • Park Ridge Hospital’s PREP Program: Provides developmental screenings, referrals, and follow-up intervention for children ages 3-5 with developmental delays and provides training for parents and child care providers.
  • Henderson County Family YMCA: Summer Day Camp Scholarships provide low-income children a safe environment and positive opportunities during the summer months.

Strengthening Families

Provide opportunities to strengthen families through education, trained intervention, legal advocacy, and financial support. 

  • Children & Family Resource Center: The Adolescent Parenting Program provides services aimed at strengthening parenting skills for first time pregnant and parenting adolescents; goals include encouraging them to finish high school, become self-sufficient, access quality healthcare service, and enhance self-worth.
  • Children & Family Resource Center: Parents as Teachers is a parent education and support program recognized for preventing child mistreatment while enhancing child development and school achievement.
  • Dispute Settlement Center: The Family Mediation Services program provides a setting and structure for family members to address conflicts and disagreements and to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions to the dispute.
  • Dispute Settlement Center: The Community Mediation program provides a setting and structure for residents to address conflicts and disagreements and to arrive at mutually agreeable solutions to the dispute.
  • Pisgah Legal Services: The Henderson Family Assistance Project provides free emergency legal services so that victims of domestic violence and their children can safely live apart from their abusers.
  • Henderson County Family YMCA: The Family/Youth Scholarship program provides memberships for low-income families and individuals to have access to fitness and recreational programs.

Promoting Health & Wellness

Promote health and well being by subsidizing medical and dental access and treatment, providing support for end-of-life health care needs and to those with long-term illnesses or disabilities, and promoting good health care awareness.

  • American Red Cross: The Blood Services program ensures that Henderson County has an adequate medical-use blood supply available.
  • American Red Cross: The Health & Safety program provides critical life-saving training that prepares Henderson County participants to effectively respond to emergency situations.
  • Blue Ridge Community Health Services: The Dental Services program provides general and urgent dental care for low-income families.
  • Blue Ridge Community Health Services: The Indigent Medications program provides medications for acute illnesses and chronic diseases to the indigent population.
  • Four Seasons CFL: The Heart Songs program provides counseling and support services for children who have lost a loved one.
  • The Free Clinics: The Medi-Find program assists chronically ill individuals in need of long-term prescription medications they cannot afford.
  • The Free Clinics: The Adult Dental Extraction Clinic provides free dental extraction for adults who are low income and uninsured.
  • Park Ridge Hospital: The Kid Power program offers nutritional education, behavior modification counseling, and cardiovascular exercise to overweight children.
  • WNC AIDS Project: The HIV Prevention and Wellness program provides case management and support for those living with HIV/AIDS, and provides community and client education to reduce the number of new HIV infections.

Providing Crisis Intervention

Support organizations that provide emergency food, clothing, shelter, and emotional support to citizens in crisis situation.

  • American Red Cross: The Disaster Preparation & Relief program ensures that any county resident left suddenly homeless due to fire or other disaster will have access to emergency shelter, food and clothing for up to five days.
  • The Children’s Clothing Closet: Provides new clothing to low-income children.
  • Mainstay: The Family Support program provides individuals and families in domestic violence crisis with therapeutic, educational, and support services.
  • Mainstay: The Emergency Shelter Program provides a safe environment and educational and therapeutic services to victims of domestic violence and their children.
  • MANNA FoodBank: The Food Distribution program meets the basic needs of low-income families by distributing food and groceries to over 18 local food pantries.
  • The Healing Place: The Victim Support program assists victims and increase the awareness of sexual assault and child abuse.
  • The Salvation Army: The Emergency Assistance program provides comprehensive assistance to families in crisis.

Delivering Elder Services

Promote programs in our community that preserve and enhance the dignity and human potential of our elder citizens.

  • Council on Aging: The Meals on Wheels program provides the delivery of hot, nutritious meals and access to social services to the elderly residents who are homebound.
  • Pisgah Legal Services: The Elder Law Project provides free legal assistance to older, low-income adults to enable them to live independently.

Developing Self Sufficiency

Build self-reliance by providing support, developing fundamental life skills, insuring access to legal advocacy, and promoting a safe and healthy environment.

  • Blue Ridge Literacy Council: The Basic Literacy program teaches low-literate adults basic reading, writing and oral communication of English.
  • Blue Ridge Literacy Council: The English as a Second Language program reduces language barriers by teaching adults English.
  • OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling: The Financial/Housing Counseling program creates financial stability by providing professional, confidential, local counseling to individuals/families in financial crisis.
  • OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling: Financial Literacy Education provides financial education, credit counseling, access to credit reports, and tax preparation assistance.
  • The Healing Place: The Sexual Abuse Awareness program educates children to help them develop an awareness of emotions and skills, which can help prevent abuse.
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: The Home Repair program assists low-income, elderly, or handicapped homeowners with home repairs.
  • Housing Assistance Corporation: The Housing Counseling program promotes home ownership, self-reliance, wealth building, and foreclosure prevention.
  • Pisgah Legal Services: The Legal Services for the Poor program provides legal assistance to low-income, disabled or working poor adults to help them meet their basic needs.
  • Pisgah Legal Services: The Justice for All program provides free legal assistance to the growing immigrant population to help them meet their basic needs.
  • Vocational Solutions: The Adult Developmental Vocational Program Transportation program transports mentally and physically disabled adults to workplaces.
  • Vocational Solutions: The Adult Developmental Vocational Program provides training and income generating work opportunities for mentally and physically disabled adults.