Act as one.

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Act as one.

• The case for giving to the United Way

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Issues of highest concern

• Violence unsafe neighborhoods
• Poverty low income
• Support for nonprofessional caregivers
• Adequate food, clothing, shelter
• Low graduation rates
• Domestic violence child/elder abuse

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• No single cause
• No single solution

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Children born at low-birth weight to teenage
parents

• Encounter blocks to literacy
• Lack medical care
• Spend early years with unskilled parents
• Enter school unprepared
• Fall behind feel unsuccessful

• Drop out or graduate unprepared
• Drop-outs less economically self-sufficient
• Drop-outs more inclined to delinquency

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• 44 of all violent acts
• committed in Rochester
• last year
• involved high school drop-outs
• (Mayors Office)

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• Every time a child fails

• We all share in the cost of that failure

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University of PittsburghThe costs of failure

• Remediation costs to treat dysfunctions of a
  failed childhood

• Maintenance costs to support those not
  economically self-sufficient

• Costs of public protection security

• The lost opportunity cost lost contributions
  child could have made

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Harvard UniversitysCenter on the Developing
Child

• No single program approach or mode of service
  delivery has been shown to be a magic bullet
• there are a number of ways to promote the healthy
  development of children

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Harvard UniversitysCenter on the Developing
Child

• Intensive supports for first-time moms
• Help working parents living below poverty level
• Reduce brain-damaging toxins
• Provide services for children at risk of abuse
  neglect

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Provide intensive supports for first-time
MomsNurse Family Partnership

• Evidence-based
• Nurses provide home visits thru pregnancy
  childs second birthday
• Offer parenting skills, well-child care
• Home visits reduce child abuse neglect 75 in
  1st two years
• UWs 175,000 leveraged state , 21

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Help working parents living below poverty
levelC.A.S.H. Initiative

• C.A.S.H. (Creating Assets, Savings, Hope)
• UW-led initiative to help working poor earn
  Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)
• Before 1,200 served
• After 12,500 served 9M in EITCs
• Now administered by Empire Justice

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Reduce toxins that cause brain damagePrevent
Lead Poisoning

• UW helped convene 30-member Coalition to Prevent
  Lead Poisoning
• Goal eliminate childhood lead poisoning by 2010
• Secured passage of city ordinance requiring lead
  testing
• Since 05, 1,000 cases to 550

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Provide services for children at-risk for abuse
Healthy Children Collaborative

• 500K to prevent abuse neglect
• 5,000 cases in Monroe County in 07
• Collaborative includes County, SPCC, U of R, Mt.
  Hope Family Center
• UW s leveraged state funding, 21

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• The
• community
• fund
• responds to
• most pressing needs

• Donations are undesignated
• Invested primarily in prevention
• Volunteer oversight ensures outcomes are being
  achieved

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• The
• community
• fund
• magnifies the power of
• your gift

• Responsiveness
• Accountability
• Reach
• Leverage
• Impact

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Act as one.

• Please
• Consider a gift
• to the
• community fund
• Thank you!