EDUCATION + INCOME + HEALTH
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 and a local community. For this reason, United Way launched an effort to identify and track troubling social issues.
| EDUCATION | INCOME | HEALTH |
|
Helping Children/Youth
Achieve their potential |
Promoting Financial
Stability and Indepemdence
|
Improving
People's Health |
| AREAS TO MEASURE: | ||
| School Readiness | Greater Financial Stability |
Maternal Health and infant
well being |
| Academic Achievement | Increased Income |
Health Care Coverage
and Prevention |
|
Productive and
Engaged Youth |
Increased Savings |
Healthy Youth
and Adults |
|
Financial Assests for Long-
Term Stability |
Advancing the common good is less about helping one person at a time and more about changing systems to help all of us. We are all connected and interdependent. We all win when a child succeeds in school, when families are financially stable, when people are healthy.
United Way's goal is to create long-lasting changes by addressing the underlying causes of these problems. Living united means being a part of the change. It takes everyone in the community working together to create a brighter future. Give. Advocate. Volunteer. LIVE UNITED.