2012 Agency Programs Supported by UWMC Funding
American Red Cross:
Crisis Program. To provide prompt, effective, and compassionate emergency relief to anyone in Mahaska County impacted by disaster.
Agency on Aging:
Capacity Building. Funds will be used to repair the agency's roof and help with insurance and other operational expenses.
Crisis Intervention Services:
Survivor Assistance Program. To provide survivors and their families short-term assistance with basic living needs including food, clothing, rent, utilities, transportation/gas, uniforms for work, college books, changing locks, changing vehicle registration, accessing mental health services, and a variety of other needs to help stabilize their situation.
Crisis Program. To help decrease the effects of trauma on victims of domestic violence and sexual assault, to offer betterment opportunities to those victims also suffering from poverty/homelessness, and to implement violence prevention programs.
Ecumenical Cupboard:
Food & Hygiene. To provide qualifying people in Mahaska County with food and hygience products.
End of Month Meals. To provide milk for families attending the End of Month Meals provided by community churches and members of their congregations.
Food Bank of Southern Iowa:
Food Assistance. To provide a food warehousing and distribution center for the food banks of Southern Iowa, including Mahaska County.
4-H Foundation:
Youth Development. To provide youth with extraordinary opportunities to learn skills and gain knowledge through hands-on activities and interactions with caring adults to share and use thoughout their lives.
Imagine the Possibilities:
Outreach Services. To bring a more complete and fulfilling life to people with disabilities and allow people with disabilities to be active members in their community. Example: has provided the opportunity for individuals to compete in Special Olympics or to participate in Challenger League.
Iowa Legal Aid:
Mahaska County Advocacy Project. To improve the lives of low-income and other vulnerable persons through the provision od free civil legal assistance.
Kids' Corner Child Care:
Scholarships. To provide a discount on childcare services to qualifying area families.
Capacity Building. Funds will be used for the purchase of new infant cribs and for a Financial Feasability Study regarding the future construction of a new Early Childhood Education Center to absorb Kids' Corner, SIEDA Headstart, and the preschool/childcare program at the YMCA.
Love In the Name of Christ:
Basic Needs. To help qualifying individulals and families with basic needs such as rent, mortgage, utilities, gasoline, and donated furniture/appliances.
Capacity Building. Funds will be used for staff training/development and to host "Managing Your Money" classes.
Mahaska County Homelessness Coalition:
Homelessness Prevention/Resolution. To prevent homelessness by helping individuals and families sustain/obtain a solid housing solution and to help resolve the obstacles to obtaining housing facing those already suffering from homelessness.
Mahaska Hospice:
Palliative Care. To assist Hospice or near-Hospice patients to be able to stay in their home setting while maintaining a better quality of life and care by offering professional nursing and aide services.
North Mahaska Elementary School:
Tutoring: For students who are not proficient in reading comprehension on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills and are in need of additional services beyond classroom instruction and interventions.
New Hope Community Center:
Nest Program. To promote heelthy families through parent education and healthy life choice incentives and to help provide for basic child-rearing needs with an incentove plan.
Youth Program. To provide safe, affordable, and supervised development opportunities for children of low-income families before and after school.
Oskaloosa Free Medical Clinic:
Medical Services. To provide basic healthcare services to those without insurance through volunteer physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, at no cost to patients.
South Central Iowa Center for Independent Living:
"U Can Succeed" GED Program. To help individuals develop transerfable employment skills, particularly, to obtain a GED.
YMCA:
After School Fun Club. To ensure that enrolled youth are: able to feel safe, supported and connected to caring adults; in a high-quality learning environment supporting needs in math, reading comprehension, and science; able to participate in exercise activities and have access to healthy snacks/meals every day.
Capacity Building. Funds will be used for the purchase of new infant cribs, the maintenance of an air handler unit, the purchase of a bus and the painting of two buses, and for instructor certifications.
