Focus Areas

Education, income and health are the building blocks for a good life.  Education is essential to getting and keeping a job with a livable wage and health benefits.  An income adequate to pay for today's necessities and save for the future provides families some sense of financial stability.  Access to quality health care keeps children on track in school and adults productive at work.  Remove any one of these building blocks and the other two topple.

Working with many partners, United Way continually looks for the most effective ways to help people gain access to educational, economic and health-related opportunities.  To achieve further progress, it is now necessary to measure where we stand in these areas and look ahead to where we need to be as a country.

EDUCATION
HELPING CHILDREN AND YOUTH ACHIEVE THEIR POTENTIAL THROUGH EDUCATION

•  Improving access to quality, affordable child care and early learning opportunities
•  Partnering with schools and parents to improve graduation rates
•  Providing after-school and mentoring programs for at-risk youth

INCOME

HELPING FAMILIES BECOME FINANCIALLY STABLE AND INDEPENDENT        

•    Supporting basic needs while increasing financial education
•    Helping hardworking people obtain job training and family-sustaining wages
•    Increasing affordable housing for seniors and families

HEALTH

IMPROVING PEOPLE'S HEALTH

•    Increasing access to critical healthcare services
•    Reducing substance abuse, child abuse and domestic violence
•    Increasing health education and preventive care

Be part of improving the health, education and income of people in Frederick County. Because united we stand.  United, we elevate.  United, we can change what we see in our world.