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- EIN 38-6158533
- info@nccscares.org
- 231-924-0641
- PO Box 149 Fremont MI 49412 USA
- www.nccscares.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Human Service Organizations, Human Services
Mission: Our mission: nccs (dba truenorth community services) serves as the communities' crossroads where caring people come together to restore, reshape, and enrich lives. Truenorth community services will continually improve a fluid and flexible array of services to ensure our communities are prosperous destinations for all their members. Our vision: nccs (dba truenorth community services) believes everyone should have a voice, nutritious food, a healthy environment, a place to call home, quality education, employment that supports a living wage, services to build resilient youth, engaged citizens and the opportunity to experience the cultural arts. Truenorth's four core competencies include ensuring our youth thrive, addressing rural poverty, building vibrant communities, and providing innovative rural nonprofit leadership.
Programs: Truenorth's housing and family services department provides housing, homeless prevention, family support services, children's services, health and nutrition programs and family support services. A continuum of care plan is established for each family which focuses on establishing attainable goals and providing case management to assure our families are moving toward self-sufficiency and a stable family environment. Our programs and services are focused on a hand up not a hand out and working to ensure that we improve lives for a lifetime.
truenorth's youth development, cultural enrichment, and camp newaygo departments - provides comprehensive youth programs including environmental, experiential, and developmental areas. Big brothers and big sisters provides community based and site based mentoring for at risk youth. Boys and girls club provides afterschool programming that includes healthy eating, homework help, and healthy exercise. Youth transitions provides intensive case management for adjudicated youth providing services in the youth's community avoiding expensive out of state placement. Camp newaygo provides opportunities for youth and adults to experience environmental, cultural, and leadership programs.
21st century community learner centers - our school based out-of-school time programs provide before-school, after-school, and summer-time programs for all children within the hesperia, baldwin, white cloud, walkerville, and hart public schools systems. The elementary and middle school programs are entitled focus (for our children's ultimate success) and the high school programs are entitled pace (partnerships, academics, community, excellence). Activities focus on homework help, academic improvement, healthy eating, life long learning skills, academic remediation and drop out prevention, disguised learning, and adventure based outdoor activities.
community enhancement - provides volunteer services for newaygo county residents.