Here is just a sample of some of the results we've seen in our region.
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Children & Youth
- Partners for Kids continues to be a role model for positive community collaboration around children and youth and expanded into the Catholic School District and two junior high schools.
- 8,300 backpacks full of supplies were provided to children in need to ensure they have the classroom tools required to succeed in school this year.
- More than 750 students continue to enhance their personal skills and strengths thanks to hundreds of volunteer mentors from our community.
- After school programming in Edmonton, Fort Saskatchewan and Leduc are developing thousands of our community’s future leaders.
- More than 400,000 hot and nutritious lunches are served in Edmonton schools each school year, providing students the opportunity to better focus on learning.
- More than 300 parents learned the value and started reading to their babies to improve their early childhood learning and start in life.
- Success By Six® published the 2009 Report on Edmonton’s Children and Youth and presented recommendations to the House of Commons Committee on Finance in an effort to influence long-term policy with respect to children and youth.
Families
- Nearly 1,500 families continue to receive education, family support, information and referral services and early childhood development support.
- United Way’s Coats for Kids and Families collected, cleaned and distributed nearly 18,000 winter coats to families in need this past winter.
- A home and support is being provided to help 25 youth have a better opportunity to live a successful life.
- United Way contributed to the success of Homeless Connect’s provision of services and supplies to more than 2,000 people who are homeless.
- More than 87,000 meals were provided to seniors in need.
- Each month more than 10,000 Alberta Capital Region families in need access food hampers distributed through United Way funded food banks and 160 other community agencies, churches and food depots.
- The Distress Line fielded nearly 11,000 calls from people dealing with issues such as suicide, child abuse, family violence, loss and grief.
Neighbourhoods
- 50,000 people were provided easy access to the support they required through the 211 Information and Referral line covering Edmonton, Strathcona County, Parkland County and Leduc.
- In Strathcona County an additional 11,000 referrals were made and 1,000 people where linked to local volunteer opportunities.
- The Neighbourhood Empowerment Team (N.E.T.) concept continues to play an integral role in community policing in Edmonton. As a shared project of Edmonton Police Service, City of Edmonton Community Services, The Family Centre and United Way of the Alberta Capital Region, N.E.T. teams are championed as a means of applying nontraditional policing response to common and recurrent community issues. A police officer, civilian community capacity builder and youth intervention worker comprise this multi-disciplined team.
