United Way's Focus Issues

EARLY CHILDHOOD SUCCESS

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

All Saints Early Learning & Community Care Center • Challenge Enterprises of North Florida, Inc. • Community Connections of Jacksonville, Inc. • DLC Nurse and Learn, Inc. • Episcopal Children’s Services • Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of North Florida, Inc. • Jacksonville Speech and Hearing Center, Inc. • Jewish Community Alliance • Methodist Children’s Village • New Heights of Northeast Florida, Inc. • United Way Success By 6 Initiative • YMCA of Florida’s First Coast

Community Partners in Early Childhood Success:

Child Mental Health Stakeholders Task Force • City of Jacksonville • Commission on Special Needs Children • The Community Foundation in Jacksonville • Early Learning Coalition of Clay, Baker, Bradford, and Nassau Counties • Early Learning Coalition of Duval • The Fifth Generation Foundation • Florida KidCare Coalition • George M. Baldwin Foundation • Healthy Start Coalition • Human Services Council • Jacksonville Children’s Commission • Jacksonville Early Learning Partnership

HELPING STUDENTS ACHIEVE

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Florida • Boys & Girls Clubs of Northeast Florida • The Bridge of Northeast Florida, Inc. • Child Guidance Center, Inc. • Children’s Home Society of Florida, Buckner Division • Communities In Schools of Jacksonville, Inc. • Communities In Schools of Nassau County, Inc. • daniel • Full Service Schools of Jacksonville • Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, Inc. • Girls Incorporated of Jacksonville • Hubbard House, Inc. • Jewish Family and Community Services • PACE Center for Girls Jacksonville • The Sanctuary on 8th Street • United Way Achievers For Life Initiative • Youth Crisis Center/The Safe Place

Community Partners in Helping Students Achieve:

AMIkids Jacksonville, Inc. • The Community Foundation • Duval County School Board • Family Support Services • Florida Department of Health • Florida Department of Juvenile Justice • Florida Department of Children and Families • The George M. Baldwin Foundation • J. Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Foundation • Jacksonville Children’s Commission • Jacksonville Kids Coalition • Jacksonville Public Education Fund • Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative • Juvenile Justice Comprehensive Strategy • LEAP Advisory Council • Learning to Finish Collaborative • Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust • New Town Success Zone • Northeast Florida Community Alliance • State Attorney’s Truancy Arbitration Program • Strengthening Families Coalition • St. Vincent’s Mobile Health Care Advisory Board

SENIOR ENGAGEMENT AND INDEPENDENCE

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

All Saints Early Learning & Community Care Center • ElderSource, the Area Agency on Aging for Northeast Florida • Jacksonville Speech and Hearing Center, Inc. • Jewish Community Alliance • Nassau County Council on Aging, Inc. • United Way Life: Act 2 Initiative • Urban Jacksonville

Community Partners in Senior Engagement and Independence:

Baker County Council on Aging, Inc. • City of Jacksonville • The Community Foundation in Jacksonville • Florida Council on Aging • Florida Department of Children and Families • The George M. Baldwin Foundation • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Core Issues

FINANCIAL STABILITY

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

Barnabas Center, Inc. • Catholic Charities Bureau • Children’s Home Society of Florida, Buckner Division • Clara White Mission • Clay Behavioral Health Center, Inc. • Community Connections of Jacksonville, Inc. • Family Foundations • The Help Center, Inc. • Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Inc. • Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce • Jacksonville Urban League, Inc. • Jewish Family and Community Services, Inc. • Lutheran Social Services of Northeast Florida, Inc. • Northwest Behavioral Health Services, Inc. • Real$ense Prosperity Campaign • The Salvation Army • Sulzbacher Center

Community Partners in Financial Stability:

AARP • Blueprint for Prosperity • Child Cancer Fund • City of Jacksonville • Clay FEMA Board • Emergency Services and Homeless Coalition • Florida Department of Children and Families • HabiJax (Habitat for Humanity of Jacksonville) • Internal Revenue Service • Jessie Ball duPont Fund • Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative • Learn To Read, Inc. • LEAP Advisory Council • Nassau FEMA Board • Northeast Florida AIDS Network, Inc. • Northeast Florida Community Action Agency • River Region Human Services • WorkSource

COMMUNITY SUPPORT NETWORK

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

American Red Cross, Northeast Florida Chapter • Greater Jacksonville Area USO • HandsOn Jacksonville • Jacksonville Community Council, Inc. • Mental Health America of Northeast Florida • Nassau County Volunteer Center, Inc. • United Way 2-1-1

Community Partners in Community Support Network:

City of Jacksonville • Duval County Emergency Preparedness Division • Emergency Preparedness for Special Needs Citizens • Florida Alliance for Information and Referral • Human Services Council • National Alliance for Information and Referral • Northeast Florida Information Network • Social Workers Assistance Team

INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

American Lung Association of Florida • The ARC Jacksonville • The ARC of Nassau County • Hope Haven Children’s Clinic and Family Center • New Heights of Northeast Florida, Inc. • Pine Castle, Inc.

Community Partners in Independence for Individuals with Disabilities:

Angelwood, Inc. • Arthritis Foundation, Northeast Florida Chapter • The dePaul School of Northeast Florida • Florida Department of Children and Families • Goodwill Industries of North Florida, Inc. • Mental Health Resource Center, Inc. • Morning Star School • National Multiple Sclerosis Society, North Florida Chapter • ODI/Independent Living Center of Northeast Florida

POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

Boy Scouts of America, The North Florida Council • Girl Scouts of Gateway Council, Inc. • Jewish Community Alliance • OneJax • YMCA of Florida’s First Coast

Community Partners in Positive Youth Development:

First Coast Girls Initiative • Jacksonville Children’s Commission • Jacksonville Kids Coalition

PREVENTING AND ADDRESSING ABUSE

Agencies with programs receiving United Way funding:

Children’s Home Society of Florida, Buckner Division • Family Foundations • Hubbard House, Inc. • Jewish Family and Community Services, Inc. • Quigley House, Inc.

Community Partners in Preventing and Addressing Abuse:

Child Welfare Reform Steering Committee • City of Jacksonville • Duval County Child Abuse Prevention Task Force • Florida Department of Children and Families • Mayor’s Network for Strengthening Families • Mayor’s Victim Assistance Advisory Council • Northeast Florida Community Alliance