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When you support your community through gifts to United Way of
Southeast Alaska, your contributions are invested right here in our
community. Your dollars are strategically allocated to 38 partner
agencies, providing immediate crisis relief and long-term
preventative solutions.
We identify which programs and services to fund by examining and
prioritizing needs. When the needs change, we change. The United Way
always puts your dollars to work where they make the biggest impact.
That's a smart investment.
An investment of $1 per week . . .
- Will provide 26 home-delivered meals for seniors.
- Will provide three families with food baskets.
An investment of $3 per week . . .
- Will provide 80 hours of safe, healthy childcare to help
low-income working families stay on the job.
- Will help stabilize a homeless individual by providing 8
nights of emergency shelter.
- Will clothe a family of four.
- Will buy three stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs.
An investment of $7 per week . . .
- Will provide three weeks of safe shelter, food and
counseling for a battered woman and her children.
- Will provide two weeks of adult day-care services.
- Will provide 21 hours of substance-abuse counseling for
pregnant or parenting women. As a result 98% of babies born to
women in treatment will be born drug-free.
An investment of $10 per week . . .
- Will provide training for two blind or visually impaired
individuals so they can increase their self-sufficiency and
reduce the risk of living in a restricted environment.
- Will pay for four weeks of home visitation and follow-up in
the Health Families program.
- Will provide five legal self-help clinics for elders on
end-of-life issues.
- An investment of $20 per week . . .
- Will provide emergency services to 73 individuals made
homeless by fire or other disasters.
- Will help 13 children increase their capacity for scholastic
achievement by providing each of them with 40 hours of summer or
after-school programs.
- Will provide 15 hours of legal representation to victims of
domestic violence.
- Will a fund a week of camp programs and leadership
development for boy and girl scouts.
- Will bring a Big Brother or Big Sister into the life of a
child.
An investment of $25 per week . . .
- Will provide 26 hours of counseling services to improve
parent/child communication and reduce the possibility of
abuse.
- Will provide 20 hours of crisis intervention, advocacy,
and specialized short-term therapeutic services to survivors
of sexual abuse and assault.
- Will fund three months of residential substance abuse
treatment, giving an addicted individual a chance to start a
new life.
- Will provide adults with 1,000 hours of tutoring to
assist with English literacy, GED preparation, or job
searches.
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