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Programs: United way of acadiana granted $676,240 to 38 community organizations to support programs and initiatives in education, earnings, and essential focus areas. These programs reached approximately 96,568 people. United way of acadiana is working to increase the number of young people who graduate from high school on time; to help hard working, low-income families become more financially stable by building and sustaining appreciating assets; and to help residents meet their basic needs after temporary financial setbacks or wide-scale disaster. Dolly partons imagination library (dpil) provides a new, age-appropriate book each month to enrolled children up to 5 years of age. There is no cost to the recipient family to participate in this program. Research shows that the best way to help children learn to read is to read to them; yet most homes in poverty have only 4 or fewer books. Dpil helps families give their children an environment that is rich in educational experiences and encourages parents to spend time reading with their children, as of december 2017, more than 22,000 children have been served through dpil. In 2017, the cost of books for this program was $263,731. To help more students read on grade level by 3rd grade, uwa launched united way readers in october 2011. The program pairs struggling readers in the 1st and 2nd grades with trained volunteer tutors who provide a minimum of 30 minutes of additional reading practice at least once a week. During the 2017 school year, 225 volunteer tutors spent over 2,273 hours helping 373 students improve their reading skills at 17 schools in lafayette, acadia, and st. Martin parishes. United way of acadiana is helping to implement franklincoveys the leader in me program in all interested schools in our service area. Based on steven coveys the 7 habits of highly effective people, the leader in me is a school-wide process that transforms the culture of the school and instills students with the key skills that businesses and educators have identified as vital for success in the 21st century. As of school year 2017-18, the leader in me reached more than 28,000 students in 45 schools in the uwa service area. Studies have proven that implementation of the leader in me, even in high-poverty schools leads to increased student attendance and decreased discipline issues, with the end result being higher academic performance. The earn. Save. Succeed. (ess) initiative aids individuals and families become more economically secure by helping them to increase their income, improve their financial skills, and develop savings plans to purchase appreciating assets. The first phase of ess focuses on increasing awareness of the earned income tax credit (eitc) and increasing access to free volunteer income tax assistance (vita). In 2017, the 12 partnering vita sites assisted 1,001 people claim over $1. 7 million in eitc. United way of acadiana, several prominent community banks, and lafayette consolidated government support a collaborative initiative called bank on lafayette that offers special deposit accounts to unbanked and underbanked individuals in lafayette parish who may not qualify for traditional bank products. These accounts and the additional supports available through bank on lafayette are designed to provide the skills and mentoring needed to learn how to maintain a deposit account successfully, thus enhancing those individuals' chances of future financial success and stability in their lives and in the lafayette community. Census data reveal that nearly 30% of households in lafayette parish are unbanked, meaning no checking or savings account, or underbanked, meaning the household relies on nontraditional services such as payday loans or check-cashing services. Statistics show that during a lifetime, an unbanked worker can pay more than $40,000 in check-cashing fees. The initiative aims to address these needs and connect more of the local community to mainstream financial institutions. Uwa distributes familywize discounted prescription cards for medications not covered by insurance, medicaid, medicare or other benefit plans. The familywize card is accepted at most pharmacies in our area and can be used by anyone free of charge that does not have health insurance or prescription benefits coverage. In 2017, a total of 4,793 prescriptions were filled in our service are with discounts from a familywize card resulting in a total saving of $215,866 or approximately 42% of the prescription costs. Donors to uwa may designate that their gift be directed to a united way serving another community in louisiana or another state or to any 501(c)3 organization provided that organization meets the requirements of the usa patriot act of 2011. Uwa forwarded $909,294 to other not-for-profits including other united ways per these donor designations.

through a federal grant awarded by the administration for children and families, department of head start, the united way of acadiana operates an early head start program serving 103 children ages from birth (6 weeks) to three (3) years of age and pregnant women. The program operates two (2) early childhood education centers; one in abbeville serving vermilion parish and the other in lafayette with emphasis on the 70501, 70503, 70506 and 70507 zip code areas in lafayette parish. The overall goal for the program is that all children attending a complete program year show 85% improvement in one or more essential domains to become school ready. The program utilized teaching strategies gold assessments and ages and stages questionnaires to assess and screen all children completing a complete year. The data indicated an 87% improvement in one or more of the essential domains of social emotional, physical, language, literacy, cognitive and mathematics development. This percentage exceeded our school readiness goal of children showing an 85% improvement. Additionally, 29 children showed 100% improvement in social emotional domain and 43 children showed 100% improvement in the essential domains of cognitive, literacy mathematics. In 2017, both centers obtained proficiency ratings from our third party toddler class observations.

louisiana volunteer organizations active in disasters (lavoad) has become increasingly vital to the states efforts in identifying needs, deploying assets, gathering information and coordinating disaster response and recovery efforts through an organized statewide network of community-based organizations. Uwa continues to serve in leadership positions for lavoad and the local acadiana voad (avoad). Uwa staff led the organizations efforts in activating resources to impact acadiana parishes in response to disasters. Uwa also participates in the emergency food and shelter program (efsp) programs in acadiana. The efsp is governed by a national board, chaired by the federal emergency management agency. The program helps meet the needs of hungry and homeless people throughout the united states and its territories by allocating federal funds for the provision of food and shelter. Through local boards responsible for determining which organizations will receive funds and which services are funded, the efsp distributes funds to human service agencies. Uwa serves to provide governing support to the local board located in acadia parish, with uwa staff serving as local board chair in acadia parish. In 2016-17, funds allocated to acadia parish were distributed directly to the assist agency and second harvest food bank of greater new orleans and acadiana.