FUNDED PROGRAMS
United Way of Licking County has completed multiple community assessments to continue identifying community needs and priorities. The number of programs we fund has increased to 45 programs via 24 agencies, including five of our original partner agencies we have been supporting since 1933.
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Prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
Phone: 740.349.9442 Website: https://www.redcross.org/
PROGRAM: Blood Services
MISSION: To ensure Central Ohio hospitals have adequate and sufficient blood and blood products to treat all patients.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
PROGRAM: Disaster Services
MISSION: To provide direct assistance to disaster victims and to better prepare Licking County residents on how to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Services to the Armed Forces (SAF)
MISSION: Helping military members, veterans, and their families prepare for, cope with, and respond to the challenges of millitary services.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
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Prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
Phone: 740.349.9442 Website: www.redcross.org/
PROGRAM: Blood Services
MISSION: To ensure Central Ohio hospitals have adequate and sufficient blood and blood products to treat all patients.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
PROGRAM: Disaster Services
MISSION: To provide direct assistance to disaster victims and to better prepare Licking County residents on how to prevent, prepare for, and respond to disasters.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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To improve and save lives by serving the healthcare needs of those who experience mental illness and/or addiction related conditions.
Phone: 740.788.3400 Website: https://www.bhcpartners.org/
PROGRAM: Courage House
MISSION: Safe, secure and supervised housing is provided for adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Spencer House
MISSION: Safe, secure and supervised housing is provided for adults with severe and persistent mental illness.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Adolescent Substance Abuse Disorder Program
MISSION: To improve and save lives by serving the healthcare needs of those who experience mental illness and/or
addiction-related conditions.IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: School Intervention Program
MISSION: Designed to help students with significant emotional and/or behavioral disturbance by providing a school-based behavioral health worker who is assigned to work exclusively with the students in that district.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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To put Christian principals into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all.
Phone: 740.345.9622 Website: https://bvfymca.org/
PROGRAM: All-For-One Camp
MISSION: An inclusive summer day camp serving children with developmental disabilities in an atmosphere of intellectual, social, emotional and physical development, providing a fun and educational experience.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Before & After School Program
MISSION: To provide critical wrap-around services bridging the gap between school and home by building on character development and healthy eating/physical activities. The program provides safety and supervision while linking students to mentors.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
PROGRAM: Preschool
MISSION: To provide children ages 3-5 access to high quality early learning education and interventions as well as wrap-around services to improve physical health and emotional well-being.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
PROGRAM: Safety Around Water
MISSION: To teach children at risk of drowning, critical water safety skills.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
PROGRAM: Summer Camp
MISSION: To provide an environment where campers, ages 5-16, can grow physically, mentally and spiritually through challenging, safe and fun activities in both small and large groups. Activities include swimming, environmental learning, physical fitness, and field trips.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
PROGRAM: Y Healthy Kids Network
MISSION: To provide backpacks of nutritious food on the weekends during the school year to students in kindergarten through 5th grade, resulting in positive change in academic performance.
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To provide 400+ Licking County children the opportunity to attend summer camp at no cost to their families.
Phone: 740.345.8295 Website: http://campobannon.blogspot.com/
PROGRAM: Camp O’Bannon
MISSION: To increase self-esteem and overall human development by: providing the opportunity to learn new skills, improving behaviors with positive reinforcement, fostering positive relationships with others in a safe, caring, “family” environment.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
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To improve community access to healthy, local food and promote economic development rooted in the county’s history, culture, and local bounty.
Phone: 740.527.0420 Website: http://www.canalmarketdistrict.org/
PROGRAM: Food Access For All
MISSION: To improve community access to healthy, local food and promote economic development rooted in the county’s history, culture and local bounty. To improve the livelihood of local food producers and entrepreneurs, and encourage development of new food-related businesses and jobs.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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Advances the potential and human dignity of individuals and families by providing essential and compassionate social services and advocating for people in need.
Phone: 614.857.1230 Website: https://www.colscss.org
PROGRAM: Support Services
MISSION: Supportive Services Licensed Social Workers provide info and referral, crisis intervention, linkage to services, and ongoing case management assistance to adults (age 60 or older) in Licking County.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Transportation Services
MISSION: To assist senior citizens and veterans with affordable access to non-emergency medical services, thereby helping them to remain independent in their community while handling the struggles associated with poverty.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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Licking County Children and Families First Council’s (CFFC) mission is to build community capacity, coordinate systems and services, and engage and empower families.
Phone: 740.670.8844 Website: https://lcfamilies.org
PROGRAM: Community Support Teaming
MISSION: To coordinate and integrate treatment services and family supports to maintain youth (birth to 21) with complex needs safely in the community.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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To improve the health and well-being of individuals by assuring access to reproductive health care services for low income, uninsured/under-insured women and men.
Phone: 740.344.9291 Website: www.fhseco.com
PROGRAM: Reproductive Health and Wellness
MISSION: To provide clients preventative healthcare services including screenings for certain kinds of cancer, infections, blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol, and sexually transmitted diseases, and to provide treatments/evaluations when appropriate.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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To raise funds and provide volunteer support for the Licking County Library.
Phone: 740.349.5500 Website: www.lickingcountylibrary.org/services-and-research/for-parents-and-teachers/dolly-parton-imagination-library/
PROGRAM: Imagination Library
MISSION: An affiliate of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library Program providing age appropriate books in the mail every month from birth to age five. The program fosters a love of reading and enhances early life skills.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
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The Girl Scout mission is to build girls with courage, confidence, and character, which make the world a better place.
Phone: 740.454.8563 Website: gsoh.org
PROGRAM: Girl Scout Leadership Experience
MISSION: To build leadership and life skills in girls, which lead them to choose healthy behaviors.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
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To improve the quality of life for Licking County Senior Citizens by contributing to their independence and healthy lifestyles.
Phone: 740.345.0821 Website: http://lcap.org/
PROGRAM: Center for Visual Improvement
MISSION: Provides professional eye care services with assessment, counseling, examination, and glasses to all county residents, ages birth-59, who qualify residentially and financially.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Nutrition
MISSION: To provide nutritious meals to senior citizens of Licking County who are unable to prepare a meal for themselves and have no one available to assist them on a regular basis.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
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To provide community education and abstinence-based treatment for individuals and families experiencing alcohol and drug related issues.
Phone: 740.366.7303 Website: http://lapp.cc/
PROGRAM: Licking County Alcoholism Prevention Program (LAPP)
MISSION: To provide effective, confidential, cost efficient treatment to individuals and families who experience challenges caused by alcohol and/or drug abuse or dependence.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
To provide the highest quality of service to the Courts, community, and offenders, ultimately initiating positive changes and enhancing public safety.
Phone: 740.670.5732 Website: https://lickingcounty.gov/depts/adult
PROGRAM: Re-Entry Program
MISSION: Coordinated entry services will provide expanded programs and services to offenders who have been released, resulting in the creation of law-abiding responsible citizens.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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To be a healthy, growing, spiritually vital, risk-taking center for making and equipping disciples of Jesus Christ for the purpose of transforming the world.
Phone: 740.618.2300/614.323.9561 Website: www.lickingcountyhope.org
PROGRAM: Rockin’ Cool Freedom School
MISSION: To provide summer enrichment through a research-based, multicultural curriculum that supports children and families.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth, & Families
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The Mission of Mental Health America of Licking County is to promote and continually reinforce mental health and wellness through education, prevention and advocacy, and eliminate the stigma of mental health issues in our community.
Phone: 740.522.1314 Website: http://www.mhalc.org/
PROGRAM: Bridges Out of Poverty
MISSION: Bridges Out of Poverty (BOP) is a book and an approach that helps employers, community organizations, social-service agencies, and individuals address and reduce poverty in a comprehensive way. People from all economic classes come together to improve job retention rates, build resources, improve outcomes, and support those who are moving out of poverty.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Compeer
MISSION: The mission of Compeer is to reduce the isolation and stigma for individuals who experience mental illness, with a commitment to enhance mental health recovery and holistic wellness and increase their community reintegration and inclusion through friendship, meaningful involvement and service.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Grit Integrity Presence (GIP)
MISSION: To act as a prevention and early intervention program for middle school girls who are at risk of not graduating high school by meeting needs not met in the classroom/home.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
PROGRAM: Parent Support
MISSION: To teach parents and other caregivers how to develop healthy and positive relationships with the children in their home. The program also aims to teach effective communication skills and how to utilize appropriate discipline measures and serves as a hub of community resources that will help in creating a happy, healthy and safe home for children and their families.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
PROGRAM: Suicide Prevention
MISSION: To provide depression and suicide prevention education to middle and high school students. The program teaches students to recognize the signs of depression in themselves and classmates, discusses the link between depression and suicide; and provides resources for help.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: YES Club
MISSION: To act as a prevention and early intervention program for youth who are in need of mentoring and life skills coaching with emphasis on community service.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
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Pathways of Central Ohio is a gateway to services which empower the community to achieve success. Pathways is a private, non-profit social service agency serving Licking, Knox, Richland, Muskingum, Perry and Morgan Counties. Pathways was established in 1968 and incorporated in 1970.
Phone: 2-1-1 or 740.345.6166 Website: http://www.pathwaysofcentralohio.com/
PROGRAM: 2-1-1 Crisis Hotline & Information Center
MISSION: The 2-1-1 Crisis/Hotline and Information Center of Pathways of Central Ohio offers confidential 24-hour, 7-day- a-week telephone crisis services for issues involving mental health, suicide, alcohol and drug use/abuse, and intellectual disabilities. Information and referral services include assistance in linking callers with resources such as temporary housing, financial help, medical care, counseling, victim assistance, domestic violence resources, suicide prevention, and resources for senior citizens. The center also is the main point of contact for community emergencies or disasters, sponsors a Recovery Line for persons recovering from mental illness, and provides after-hours coverage for many Licking and Knox County social service agencies.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Center for Prevention Services
MISSION: To provide a systematic approach to mental, emotional and behavioral health disorders through promoting personal growth and self-reliance for individuals, families and communities, and coordinating services; providing training and offering technical assistance resources to individuals experiencing concerns regarding substance use/abuse, bullying, suicide and/or violence.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Parent Education Center
MISSION: Individualized parent skills programs are brought to their home, empowering parents to become advocates for their children.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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To provide professional behavioral health therapy to children, adults and families through horses, counseling and nature.
Phone: (740) 924-7543 Website: http://www.pbjconnections.org
PROGRAM: CONNECT Program
MISSION: To provide equine assisted psychotherapy to individuals and families as an alternative model of mental health counseling that helps those struggling in a traditional setting.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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The Salvation Army, an International movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
Phone: 740.345.8120 Website: http://neo.salvationarmy.org/northeastohio/Newark
PROGRAM: Emergency Assistance
MISSION: The program addresses immediate crisis needs by providing a safety net of services including providing emergency shelter for up to 90 days, providing financial assistance to clients who are behind on their rent or utilities, providing meals at its soup kitchens, school supplies and summer feeding program for children, and gifts and food for Christmas.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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The Simon Kenton Council is one of the largest councils in the nation serving 17 counties in central and southern Ohio and Greenup County in northern Kentucky. The council is staffed by more than 40 professional and administrative Scouters with more than 6,500 adult volunteers delivering the Scouting program to more than 18,000 youth.
Phone: 614.436.7200 Website: https://skcscouts.org/
PROGRAM: Traditional Scouting
MISSION: The program encompasses the Cub Scouts, serving youth in grades 1-5 through family-oriented programming; Boy Scouts, serving youth from grades 5 through ages 18 in youth led, self-directed programming that teaches life skills, STEM, citizenship, and develops leadership skills; and co-ed programming for youth age 14 to 20 where participants focus on a common interest, usually a high-adventure activity like canoeing, shooting sports, camping or rappelling, while developing the same life skills, service orientation and leadership skills.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
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To work with people in need of shelter.
Phone: 740.214.1816
PROGRAM: St. Vincent de Paul, St. Teresa of Calcutta Program
MISSION: To assist with payment for motel time for people who are in need of shelter, funds for deposits for people who have been evicted, or funds for rent for people who are in eviction.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
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To provide food, education, training and work opportunities for the residents of Licking County and to improve the quality of life for those who may be living in poverty.
Phone: 740.504.7351 Website: http://www.togetherwegrowgardens.org
PROGRAM: Community Gardens
MISSION: To provide opportunities for growing spaces in gardens all over Licking County, which will not only feed the growers, but will provide enriching educational experiences, improved self-confidence and job training for all residents.
IMPACT AREA: Poverty
PROGRAM: Here We Grow Gardens
MISSION: The program integrates adults with developmental disabilities into our community and introduces them to therapeutic gardening and vocational skills that could help them become more self-sufficient, leading to employment opportunities.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
PROGRAM: Power of Plants Education Program
MISSION: The program teaches students, from a very early age, that gardening is fun, therapeutic, rewarding, and can be a huge part of feeding their families. The program hopes to improve the quality of life for those who may be living in poverty.
IMPACT AREA: Children, Youth & Families
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To provide safe recovery housing to women committed to fighting their disease of addiction; offer education and awareness to families and communities regarding the stigma of addiction; and serve as a connector between various community services to assist women in recovery seeking help.
Phone: 740.919.6629 Website: http://www.wholelivingrecovery.org
PROGRAM: Whole Living Recovery Homes
MISSION: To provide provide sober community living for men, women and children. Recovery
housing exists to provide housing support while residents adjust to sobriety and the responsibilities of
everyday life. Recovery Residences are distinct in that they are neither addiction treatment nor mutual-aid
groups (such as AA). They seek to focus beyond the individual to create a space where personal recovery
can flourish.IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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Our mission is to respond with integrity and compassion to people facing challenges.
Phone: 740.349.7066 Website: http://www.thewoodland.org/
PROGRAM: Center For New Beginnings
MISSION: To respond with integrity and compassion to people facing challenges.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Expect Respect
MISSION: To respond with integrity and compassion to people facing challenges.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
PROGRAM: Outpatient Department
MISSION: To respond with integrity and compassion to people facing challenges.
IMPACT AREA: Behavioral Health
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Program: CPR and Fire Prevention Trailer
