Supporting Families
The younger a person is, the more likely they are to live in poverty. Research shows that prevention is more cost-effective than fixing problems later. United Way invests in families with young children. reducing the long-term financial and personal costs like lost potential, emotional hardships, and lower quality of life. United Way funds evidence-based strategies to reduce risk factors and strengthen protective factors around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). These include household stability, building essential skills, and strengthening relationships.
Strengthening Relationships
This helps them improve academically, attend school regularly, and develop social-emotional skills while connecting them with caring adults to reduce risks like mental health issues and addiction.
Building Essentials
This boosts literacy, problem-solving, and parent involvement - key defenses against poverty, neglect, and conflict. This also helps build confidence, strong relationships, and skills that help prevent stress, neglect, and abuse, leading to happy, healthy children.
Boosting Household Stability
This helps to ensure family safety and stability for long-term planning and offers assistance by helping access work, groceries, healthcare, and essential services, while removing transportation barriers.
You Create Stability & Unlock Potential!
Because of generous supporters, United Way invests in programs that create safe, stable, and nurturing environments - helping children build the essential skills they need for a strong, healthy start in life - and they can dream about their futures!
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If you’d like to contribute to our annual campaign via mail, please download our pledge form, fill it out and mail it to United Way of Greater Stark County.
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Want to help the children of our community year-round? Join the Brighter Futures Society for only $10 a month. You’ll help us reduce childhood poverty and Adverse Childhood Experiences in an on-going, sustainable way of investing in the future of Stark County’s children.
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