Tri-City Area United Way

Greetings! 

Did you also know that our community has a shortage of skilled labor?  Read below about what Tri-City Area United Way is doing about it.

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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why"?

I dream things that never were, and ask "Why Not"?

Robert F. Kennedy

• Did you know 20% of the children in our communities live in Poverty?
• Did you know that a disadvantaged child starts school at least 2 years behind in pre-reading skills?
• Did you know that if a child is taking a multi-vitamin it can increase the child's concentration, academics and athletic success?
• Did you know a healthy child has a better chance to educational success?

TCAUW is taking the lead in organizing and mobilizing the community with our Educational Success Cradle to Career intiative.

This year we piloted a Kindergarten Countdown with the Menominee School District which has proven itself successful. 

• 46 % of those in attendance were Head Start students, which served to meet TCAUW objective of reaching disadvantaged children.
• 23% of the participants either learned or improved upon targeted skills.  This exceeds the 10% expectation of growth in those skills.
• 92% of the parents participating in the parent orientation.

TCAUW partnered with Peshtigo and Oconto Pharmacy in FREE VITAMIN program for 1 year.  Each child in the family received 1 bottle of vitamins, each month for 1 year.  This year we have over 1500 children signed up.

 TCAUW partner with NWTC to provide a FREE Back to School Health Screening for children in grades pre-k to 12th.  This event provided the following services:

• Dental, vision, hearing, and spinal checks
• BMI, nutritional advice, healthy activities
• 76 families with 127 children were served
• 26% did not have insurance that would cover all of these services
• 27% use this health screening for the child's health evaluation for school

 Link to Educational Success 

You can direct your contribution to one of the action areas-Education, Income and Health-or choose all three. As always, we will also process a restricted contribution to qualified 501 (c) 3 organizations.

 

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Volunteer to Read to a Child 

To achieve this vision we need to see education as a journey that is much more inclusive than what happens in the schoolhouse alone.  Education is a lifelong experience that begins well before a child ever sets foot in a classroom and continues long past a cap-and-gown commencement.

Tri-City Area United Way is in the beginning stages of developing this vision with community partners.

Link to the Strive Vision