Our Community Investment Priority
To provide opportunities to develop positive social and cognitive skills and to educate and support parents and kids to build stronger families.
What's next?
United Way will invest in strategies that support our Community Investment Priority. This means investing in programs and services that focus upon:
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Youth engagement
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After-school programs
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Mentoring
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Children's social and cognitive skill development
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Individual and family supports
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Parent (caregiver) education and support
What are the Intended Outcomes?
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Windsor-Essex County youth and 'at-risk' youth will participate in programming that promotes active community engagement and improvement through philanthropy, decision-making and governance
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School-aged 'at-risk' youth in under-serviced areas of Windsor-Essex County will participate in after-school programs where they will improve social-cognitive skills, improve school engagement and/or academic performance, and develop healthy habits by promoting positive choices and opportunities for leadership
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Youth 'at risk', ages 7 to 18, will develop long-term positive trust relationships with adults that promote choice, positive decision-making and empowerment
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Existing youth support/service skills to providers will have increased skills and knowledge regarding how to strengthen the social and cognitive development of youth
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Individuals, seniors and families in crisis have timely access to the immediate social and cognitive supports they require, and are effectively connected with sustainable community-based support networks and opportunities that build on existing individual and family strengths.
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Access to parent supports and effective child-parent (caregiver) attachment opportunities that build on the existing skills of parents (caregiver) and their children
To learn more about our New Direction and our Community Investment Priorities,
click here.
Through this transition period, United Way continues to fund the following
programs.
