University of Louisville
Metro United Way Campaign 1996
Where Does Your Contribution Go?
The following is a partial listing of some of the agencies which the Metro
United Way funds through your donations.
American Red Cross, Clark County Chapter
Offers CPR, first aid, Health in the Workplace on-site safety training, AIDS
workplace education, and other health courses. Provides disaster services and
service and leadership development.
Allocation: $88,620
Big Bothers/Big Sisters of Kentuckiana
Provides a one-to-one relationship with a mature adult volunteer for youth
from one-parent families. Services include training volunteers, child abuse
prevention training, counseling and matching the child's needs with the right
adult. Also provides mentors to pregnant or parenting teens.
Allocation: $218,100
Bingham Child Guidance Center
Provides evaluation, treatment, referral and research services to emotionally
disturbed children, youth and their families. Programs include emergency
care, individual, group and family outpatient treatment, short-term inpatient
care and day-hospitalization. Allocation: $127,000
Blue River Services
Provides vocational, developmental, residential and transportation services to
adults and children with disabilities. Child care programs are also available
for children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years. Allocation: $26,700
Boy Scouts of America, Lincoln Heritage Council
Provides community-based youth development programs that aid in family
understanding; teaches self-reliance, citizenship, responsibility and physical
fitness and provides vocational exploration for young men and women.
Available to a broad cross section of community youth including those with
disabilaties. Allocation: $586,300
The Boys and Girls Clubs
Provides quality programs and experiences which emphasize social, vocational,
cultural, spiritual, health, and physical development. These services enhance
character and self-esteem, are educational and fun, and contribute to youth
realizing their maximum potential. Special concern is directed toward those
youth who are from disadvantaged circumstances. Allocation: $447,825
Bridgehaven
Provides therapeutic rehabilitation (outpatient) for adults with mental
illness. Services include social and living skill development; individual and
group counseling; pre-vocational training; crisis, psychiatric and medication
intervention and involvement in community activities. Allocation: $211,000
Bridgepointe Center
Promotes independence by providing rehabilitation to persons with disabilities
and supportive services to persons in disadvantaged situations. Services
include: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, audiological evaluations,
day care, preschool and early intervention, employment and training services,
and physicians services. Operates five Goodwill stores in southern Indiana.
Allocation: $268,000
The Cain Center
Provides opportunities for adults with physical disabilities to live
independently in accessible, affordable apartments or in a group home
setting. The Jim Cain Home houses nine individuals and provides them
opportunities to obtain independent living skills. The Cain-Bingham
Apartments accommodate eight families, while twenty-four families live in the
Brown-MacKinnon Apartments. Allocation: $52,500
California Area Family Development Center
Provides quality chilcare and development programs, before and after-school
programs and a complete summer program for infants, toddlers, pre-school and
school-age children. Allocation: $110,000
Center for Lay Ministries
Provides immediate emergency food, helps with utility bills, prescriptions,
rents, emergency lodging and travel; classes in nutrition and budgeting;
serves as a clearinghouse for giving Christmas baskets; furnishes supplies for
jail ministry. Inter-agency referrals and donations to other agencies.
Allocation: $18,160
Center for Women and Families
Develops, maintains, and promotes quality services and programs to meet the
special needs of women and families in the community. Programs include
R.A.P.E. Crisis Program, Domestic Violence Program, and Creative Employment
Program.
Allocation: $464,200
Central Kentucky Community Action Council
(Retired Senior Volunteer Program)
Opens the door to volunteering for persons ages 55+ to utilize their life
skills, talents and interests while addressing the full spectrum of community
needs. Allocation: $9,000
Cerebral Palsy KIDS Center
(Kentuckiana Institute for Developmental Services)
Program provides early intervention for children with cerebral palsy and
similar disabilities through a multi-disciplinary approach. Services offered
include: direct medical services, occupational therapy, physical therapy,
speech therapy, and support services for the entire family. Allocation:
$396,250
Clark County Healthcare Clinic
This primary care facility is staffed by a full-time nurse-practioner and
fifteen volunteer physicians. 30-40 medical specialists also see patients in
their offices. The clinic is open to low-income, uninsured residents of Clark
County, IN. Sliding scale fee. Hours: Monday and Friday 8am-4:30pm; Tuesday
and Thursday evenings. Allocation: $ 14,725
Clark County Youth Shelter
Provides 24-hour residential care for adolescents in crisis situations.
Programs includes youth and family counseling, family preservation services,
crisis intervention, respite care, independent living skills, tutoring, and
recreational activities. Allocation: $8,000
Communicare
(Kids Care Development Program)
Assists physically disabled and developmentally delayed infants by providing
early intervention programs along with speech, physical and occupational and
visual therapy. Allocation: $25,000
Community Chest of Oldham County
Provides emergency assistance to individuals and families who are in need of
food, shelter, clothing and other basic needs. Also offers aid to stranded
families.
Allocation: $24,000
Community Coordinated Child Care
The region's resource for early childhood information and training. Provides
comprehensive information used in community planning regarding the supply and
demand for child care services, technical assistance to child care providers
and employers, assists parents looking for child care or in need of financial
assistance in paying for child care. Offers early intervention with delayed
development or disabilities. Allocation: $194,300
Community Living
Assumes life-long responsibility for specific persons with mental
retardation. Provides for residential needs and overall welfare by
establishing and maintaining supportive homes and relationships. Allocation:
$50,000
Council for Retarded Citizens
Offers services to people with mental disabilities and their families through
counseling, residential, citizen advocacy, recreation programs ans parent and
public education. Allocation: $235,000
Crisis & Information Center
(Program of Seven Counties Services)
A 24-hour telephone crisis hotline for individuals experiencing suicide or
mental health crises. Provides comprehensive information, referral, and
follow-up services, accessing referral information through a computerized
database of community resources. The center serves eight counties in Kentucky-Bullitt, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby,
Spencer, and Trimble counties-and three counties in Indiana-Clark, Floyd, and
Harrison. Allocation: $181,600
Custom Manufacturing Services
A manufacturing and service company that, in partnership with local industry,
provides training and long-term employment for persons with mental
retardation.
Allocation: $50,000
Dorman Preschool Center
(A Service of of Shelby Council for Retarded Children, Inc.)
An early intervention, integrated, center-based program, serving preschool
at-risk children, who are in need of multiple support services due to delays
in areas of physical and/or mental, and social development, with a support
system for parents.
Allocation: $71,000
ElderServe Senior House
Provides services to the elderly including information and referral, social
services outreach, health promotion, recreational and educational programs,
transportation and volunteer opportunities. Also offers Senior Companion,
HomeCare Services and Telecare to frail, older persons and consultation on
Elder Care issues to employees at participationg companies. Intergenerational
programming is offered at the Oak and Acorn Center. Programs offered
throughout Jefferson County. Allocation: $242,500
Family and Children's Agency
Provides family, marital, individual, and group counseling for parenting
concerns, marital problems, child abuse, sexual abuse, spouse abuse, drug and
alcohol abuse, stepfamily issues, and other personal and family problems.
Also provides educational workshops on family issues, training for other human
service professionals, and employee assistance programs for employers on a
contract basis.
Allocation: $1,158,900
The Family Place: A Child Abuse Treatment Agency
Strives to break the cycle of child abuse and heal the wounds it causes
through prevention, intervention, education and treatment. Comprehensive
family-based therapeutic intervention designed to treat the issue of child
sexual abuse utilizing individual, group and family modalities. Accredited
therapeutic child care for pre-school children exposed to family violence;
crisis nursury for children at risk of abuse; individualized assistance for
abused children in selected community child care centers. Public education on
child abuse and child sexual abuse. Allocation: $147,600
Family Service Bureau
Provides extensive information and referral services for Floyd County;
emergency financial assistance; seasonal assistance with loan of fans, air
conditioners and heaters; Adopt-A-Family and clearinghouse at Christmas;
Representative Payee Program that serves Clark and Floyd Counties, IN.
Allocation: $71,500
Floyd County Youth Services Coalition
Serves as the STEP AHEAD Coordinator. Provides a neutral forum for
collaborative and strategic planning and comprehensive service coordination to
improve services to youth and their families. Allocation: $7,000
Four-H Council of Hardin County
With emphasis on "learning by doing", this youth-serving organization provides
young people an opportunity to make new friends, learn new skills, and develop
the necessary self-confidence to become productive and contributing members to
society. Allocation: Did not request funding.
Four-H Council of Oldham County
Develops programs centered on the 4-H model for both urban and rural youth.
The 4-H programs are preventive programs that help develop lifelong skills in
leadership, communication and responsibility. Allocation: $10,000
Fresh Air Camp Fund
Provides scholarships for four accredited camps operated by Boy Scouts, YMCA,
Wesley Community House and Jewish Community Center. Allocation: $10,200
Goodwill Industries of Kentucky
(Beargrass Division)
Helps people with disabilities and disadvantages to achieve their highest
employment potential. Provides jobs, work services, literacy remediation,
counseling, vocational evaluation, work adjustment training services and
computer programming training. Work areas include the used goods program,
industrial contracts, and placement in competitive settings. Allocation:
$50,000
Harrison County Community Services
Provides a number of programs to assist low income families, including a food
pantry, clothes, Santa Shop, transient assistance and crisis intervention.
Allocation: $24,500
The Healing Place
(An Outreach of the Jefferson County Medical Society)
Provides medical care, sobering-up center, food, clothing, emergency shelter,
and a chemical dependency recovery program to homeless people. This social
and medical outreach program for alcoholics and addicts provides a continuum
of training in independent living skills, enhanced relationships, social
responsibility; adult education; job training, couseling and networking. In
this healing community, people in recovery serve as role models for emergency
shelter residents still using alcohol and drugs. Services are available to
men, women and families. Allocation: $48,000
Helping Hand of the Heartland
Provides temporary emergency assistance to families and individuals in Hardin
County, south of Routes 220 and 434, who are in need of food, housing and
utility assistance, clothing, and other basic needs. Also offers aid to
stranded families and individuals in the form of bus ticket, gasoline
overnight shelter, and food.
Home of the Innocents
Provides three major services for children: services to medically fragile
children whose
families are unable to provide the 24 hour a day skilled
nursing care which their children require; services to children who require
emergency care because they have been abused, abandoned, neglected, or are
temporarily homeless due to a family crisis; and services
to homeless, pregnant
or parenting teens and their family members providing case management,
education, parenting and independent living skills. 485 E. Gray St. 40202,
561-6600. Allocation: $358,500
Hoosier Hills PACT
Provides a Community Mediation (dispute resolution) program and a program to
assist crime victims. Allocation: $8,000
Hoosier Valley Economic Opportunity Corporation
Offers a wide range of programs and services, including outreach, referral,
commodity distribution, family day care, emergency shelter, and job training.
Hoosier Valley Economic Opportunity Corporation-Haven House
Haven House is a multi-purpose shelter for the homeless which provides a
temporary residence while assisting the residents in becoming
self-sufficient. Operated seven days a week, 24 hours a day. Allotment:
$56,400
Hoosier Valley Economic Opportunity Corporation-Clark County Help Line
Provides a 24-hour emergency phone-referral service for all Clark County
residents. This number connects Clark County residents to human service
agencies, police departments, and hospitals as a collaborative effort to
centralize the availability of services. Allocation: $1,940
Hope, Inc.
Hope, Inc. provides prevention/intervention programming after school and
during the summer for 7-14 year olds and promotes family unity and parenting
skills with special family events. Allocation: $7,000
Hospice of Central Kentucky
A comprehensive health care program for terminally ill patients and their
families in their homes, hospital, or nursing home. Services include nursing;
medical social work; home hospice aides; medication, equipment, and supplies;
counseling; respite care; volunteer services; bereavement care; and
specialized cancer support services. Allotment: $40,000
Hospice of Southern Indiana
Provides comprehensive care to the terminally ill and their families in home,
hospital, and nursing home settings. Bereavement services available for all
ages. Pediatric and AIDS patients served. State and Medicare certified
agency. Hospice services are available 24 hours/day, 7 days/week to Floyd,
Clark, Harrison, Scott and Washington counties. Allocation: $66,820
Interfaith Community Council
Offers the following: Hedden House, transitional housing for recovering women
alcoholics; Child Development Center; Retired Senior Volunteer Program; Senior
Day College for Leisure Time Education; Dare to Care emergency food pantry;
convalescent sitter training and referral; Dial-a-Care reassurance phone
calls; case management for those at risk of being homeless; Parent program;
seasonal programs, Clothe-a-Child and Operation Santa Claus. Allocation:
$83,500
Iroquois Child Care Center
Provides quality child care and development programs for infants through
pre-school age children. Sliding fee scale available; special programs
offered throughout the year include gymnastics and music. Allotment: $82,500
Jefferson Alcohol & Drug Abuse Center, (JADAC)
(A Program of Seven Counties Services)
Offers Concerned Persons and Children of Alcoholics programs. Provides
education, intervention and counseling programs for adult family members and
friends and for children of chemically dependent people. Provides impatient
detoxification and rehabilitation, DUI outpatient counseling, intensive
oupatient, and other outpatient services for chemically-dependent
individuals. Allotment: $71,200
Jewish Community Center
Provides social, educational, cultural and physical activities for all ages.
Includes day and overnight camps, physical fitness, adult education, teaching
of lifetime skills for all ages. Senior Citizens program includes telephone
reassurance, workshops, long range services, food co-op, family life program,
short range counseling, wellness program, and meals on wheels. Also offers
swim and dive lessons, First Aid/CPR and Life Saving Classes, classroom
driver's training, and extensive community service programs. Allocation:
$238,000
Jewish Family & Vocational Service
Provides individual, family and group counseling to preserve and strengthen
family life. Offers educational and vocational counseling and testing, career
guidance and career effectiveness training program to assist individuals in
attaining their maximum potential in education and vocational development.
Sponsers Family Business Center, workshops, consultations and networking
opportunities for family businesses. Provides family life education workshops
on parenting, stress, children or divorce, etc. Provides full range of
services to older adults, including counseling and home health care under RN
supervision. Allocation: $316,900
Kentucky Food Bank
Provides food to 36 counties in central Kentucky. Donations to the Food Bank
are by the makers of the food. KFB gives it to agencies who serve those in
need. Allocation: $40,000
Kentucky Youth Advocates
Kentucky Youth Advocates is an independent, non-profit children's advocacy
organization that represents the interests of all Kentucky's children by
vigorously promoting positive changes in programs and policies that affect
children every day. Allocation: $56,450
Kling Center
A senior center serving older persons both directly and through linkages with
other service providers. Service include outreach, counseling, health-related
services and nutrition. Allocation: $55,700
Legal Aid Society
Offers legal advice and representation in civil cases to clients who meet
poverty guidelines. Special outreach programs are provided to victims of
domestic vilence, the homeless, people living with HIV/AIDS, and senior
citizens. Serves Jefferson and the following surrounding counties:
Breckinridge, Bullitt, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson,
Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Trimble and Washington. Allocation: $210,200
Lincoln Trail Domestic Violence Program
Provides shelter in a secure facility for adults experiencing spouse/partner
abuse and their dependent children. 24-hour crisis line. Counseling
available to residents and non-residents. Medical and legal advocacy
provided. The program serves the eight counties of the Lincoln Trail Area
Development District. Allocation: $40,000
Louisville Central Community Centers (LCCC)
Multi-purpose family services centers which support self sufficiency of
individuals and families primarily in the historic Russell neighborhood by
providing youth development activitie, adult/older services and programs,
family support services, self-employment training programs, after school
programming, neighborhood revitalization and development and volunteer work.
Allocation: $441,700
Louisville Central Community Centers
Mini-Versity Child Development Center
A state-licensed center that provides quality child care and developmental
programs for infants to school age children. Allocation: $106,000
Louisville Diversified Services
Develops community-based vocational opportunites for adults with mental
retardation in Jefferson County. Provides a job development and placement,
on-the-job training and on-going support. Day services for adults with severe
and profound mental retardation include physical care, recreation and personal
skills development in small neighborhood settings. Allocation: $65,000
Louisville Urban League
A community services organization that assists African-Americans and
disadvantaged persons to achieve social and economic equality primarily
through education, employment, housing, family development and community
development. Services benefit individuals and employers (labors and
management). Services include computer and office skills classroom training,
occupational and career counseling, skills development and job placement,
comprehensive housing assistance, education and youth development.
Allocation: $318,100
Maryhurst
Offers treatment programs for neglected, abandoned and/or abused teenage
girls, moderately to severely emotionally disabled, ages 13-18. The
residential program provides structered group living, clinical therapy and an
on-campus school. Community-based programs offer transitional and aftercare
services, independent living and family treatment homes. Allocation: 240,150
Multi-Purpose Community Action Agency
Provides services to the elderly and low-income clients in Shelby, Bullitt,
and Spencer counties. Elderly programs include social functions, nutritional
programs, outreach, information and referral, health promotion, monthly
newspaper, arts and crafts, and Adult Day Care Center and a Home Care program
with homemaker, respite, chore, home repair and Personal Care services.
Low-income programs provide emergency assistance with fuel, utilities, food,
medicine, etc. Administers the Low-Income Heating Assistance, Family Self
Sufficiency, Weatherization, Wintercare, and Homeless Programs. Also offers a
Family Preservation Program to families at risk of having a child removed from
the home. Allocation: $51,000
YMCA of Greater Louisville
Provides health enhancement, fitnessm adult and youth sports, housing for
homeless, day care, before and after-school care, resident and day camping and
aquatics program for youth and adults. Also offers family enrichment programs
and emergency shelter/counseling for teens. Allocation: $615,200