Impact Areas

United Way of Henderson County
Community Focus Areas
2011/12 Funded Programs

EDUCATION
VISION: We envision a community that values diversity and prepares children and adults for success in education, employment, and life.

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters—Henderson County Program: Mentors children who are primarily from single-parent families and are experiencing behavioral academic or social development issues.
  • Blue Ridge Literacy Council—Literacy Program: Provides adults the English communication and literacy skills needed to reach full potential as individuals, parents, workers, and citizens.
  • Boys & Girls Club—Education & Social Development 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—Adolescent Parenting Program: Works one-on-one with first time teen moms to complete their high school education, acquire job skills, improve parenting abilities and prevent future pregnancies.
  • Children & Family Resource Center—Behavior Intervention Program. Provides comprehensive behavior intervention services designed to address the needs of young children enrolled in Henderson County child care facilities.
  • Children & Family Resource Center—Child Care Resource & Referral Professional Development Program: Provides one-on one and group assistance to staff of licensed child care facilities who wish to advance their education in Early Childhood.
  • Children & Family Resource Center—Parents as Teachers Program: A parent education and support program recognized for preventing child mistreatment while enhancing child development and school achievement.
  • Dispute Settlement Center—Youth, Family Mediation & Conflict Resolution Program: Provides family groups, youth, and others with the opportunity for experiential learning in problem solving and a structured approach to resolving difficult issues.
  • Helping Hand Development Center—Developmental Day Program: 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.
  • Henderson County Family YMCA—Summer Day Camp Program: Provides safe, affordable, supervised and engaging activities for children ages 5-12 during the summer months.
  • Park Ridge Health Foundation—Preschoolers Reaching Educational Potential (PREP) Program: Provides free developmental screenings, referrals, and follow-up intervention for children ages 3-5 with developmental delays and provides training for parents and child care providers.
  • The Healing Place—Sexual Abuse Awareness Program: Presents materials on cyber safety, sexual abuse, sexual assault, healthy relationships and boundaries, and local resources to students in 7th, 8th, and 9th grades.

BOARD DIRECTED GRANTS

  • Boy Scouts of America, Daniel Boone Council—Scouting Program: A year-round program to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices throughout their lifetime.
  • Girl Scouts, Peaks to Piedmont—Leadership Experience Program: Provides character-building activities for girls in a safe and positive environment.

INCOME
VISION: We envision a community working together to create and provide the opportunities and the resources necessary for people to achieve and maintain economic self sufficiency.

  • Housing Assistance Corporation—Home Repair Program: Provides home repair services that alleviate mobility, livability, and health and safety issues for very low income and mostly elderly homeowners.
  • Housing Assistance Corporation—Housing Production Program: Develops new housing units for rent or purchase by low income households.
  • OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling—Financial/Housing Counseling Program: Provides professional, confidential, local counseling to individuals/families to help people become economically self sufficient.
  • OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling—Financial Literacy Education Program: Provides the knowledge and management skills to help residents move toward self sufficiency.
  • Pisgah Legal Services—Homeless Prevention Project: Helps low income families and individuals by providing free legal assistance to help them avoid homelessness.
  • Pisgah Legal Services—Justice for All Program: Program provides free legal assistance to the very low income Henderson County immigrant population to help them meet basic needs and obtain legal work status.
  • Western Carolina Community Action—Preparing, Learning, Achieving Now (PLAN) Program: Promotes the development of local strategies to enable participating families to increase earned income and financial literacy, and reduce or eliminate the need for welfare assistance.
  • Western Carolina Community Action—The Ride Program: Provides public transit passes to nonprofits for distribution to low income individuals.

HEALTH
VISION: We envision a community that embraces wellness and prevention and provides access to comprehensive, affordable, quality healthcare.

  • Blue Ridge Community Health Services—Community Health Access for the Underserved: Provides medical, dental, and behavioral health services for the medically uninsured and underserved.
  • Four Seasons CFL—Hospice Program: Provides integrated, holistic, and compassionate care for patients at the end-of-life that focuses on pain and symptom management.
  • Four Seasons CFL—Palliative Care Program: Provides medical care and support to patients with serious illness and their families with a focus on relieving suffering and improving quality of life.
  • Henderson County Family YMCA—Membership Scholarship Program: Provides memberships for low income families and individuals to have access to fitness and recreational programs.
  • Housing Assistance Corporation—Fall Prevention Program: Provides fall prevention education materials and home modifications for individuals at risk of falling to them to remain living independently, safely, and with a sense of security.
  • Mainstay—Mental Health/Substance Abuse Treatment Program: Provides enhanced services to shelter and outreach clients experiencing mental health and/or substance abuse issues co-occurring with domestic violence.
  • Medical Loan Closet—MLC Program: Provides free loan of medical equipment to assist individuals in recovering from illness, accident or surgical procedures.
  • Park Ridge Health Foundation—Kid Power ENERGIZE! Program: Provides a free 10-week comprehensive weight management and behavior modification class designed to prevent childhood obesity.
  • Pisgah Legal Services—Elder Law Project: Provides free legal assistance to older, low income adults to enable them to live independently.
  • Sixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehabilitation Partners—Clubhouse Program: Provides individuals with access to and navigational assistance of behavioral and primary health care services, and links them to community housing, education, employment and transportation.
  • The Free Clinics—Adult Dental Extraction Clinic: Provides free dental extraction for adults who are low income and uninsured.
  • The Free Clinics—Medi-Find Program: Assists low income, uninsured, and chronically ill individuals access the critical prescription medications they need.
  • The Healing Place—Evidence Based Behavioral Health Services: Provides mental health treatment to victims of sexual violence.
  • WNC AIDS Project—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.

REBUILDING LIVESVISION: We envision a community that collaborates effectively and ensures fulfillment of basic needs.

  • American Red Cross—Rebuilding Lives After Disaster Program: Offers immediate emergency response to provide shelter, food, clothing, emotional counseling, and medications to victims of fire or other disaster.
  • Children’s Clothing Closet—Clothing Program: Provides new clothing to low income children.
  • Mainstay—Case Management Services Program: Provides women and children in the agency’s emergency shelter and transitional housing facility with case management services.
  • Mainstay—Domestic Violence Crisis Services: Provides a safe environment for women and children while overcoming barriers that prevent them from establishing and sustaining safe and self sufficient independence.
  • MANNA FoodBank—MANNA Packs for Kids Program: Provides supplemental nutrition assistance to identified children and youth at risk of hunger.
  • Pisgah Legal Services—Domestic Violence Prevention Program: Provides free emergency legal services so that victims of domestic violence and their children can safely live apart from their abusers.
  • The Healing Place—Children’s Advocacy Center Program: A child-focused, facility-based program in which law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, medical, mental health, and victim advocacy representatives collaborate to conduct interviews and make team decisions about child abuse cases.
  • The Salvation Army—Crisis Assistance: Program provides comprehensive assistance to families in crisis.
  • Vocational Solutions—Adult Developmental Vocational Program Transportation: Transports adults with disabilities to and from their homes to the Vocational Solutions facility, to volunteer opportunities, and on educational field trips.