73 Pageviews Read Stories
Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: Promote the social welfare of the total community
Programs: Caring communities - promotes the coordination and cooperation between social service providers, churches, the business community and the people of the community to become more self-reliant and responsible. Some programs included under caring communities: - healthy baby parenting classes - parents working - children ready to enter school - children and youth succeeding in school - children and families healthy - children safe in their families - families safe in their communities - youth ready to enter productive adulthood - teen pregnancy prevention - promote healthy lifestyle for youth and adults - nutrition and physical activity - icare(individual cancer assistance relief effort) which provides direct assistance to individual cancer patients.