School-based Family Resource Centers

United Way’s network of School-based Family Resources centers works with schools to handle problems outside the classroom so teachers can teach in the classroom.  Last year alone, over 1,700 students received services from 6 family resource centers in schools across Nashville. 

Residents of at-risk neighborhoods face multiple barriers to being able to lead stable, healthy and productive lives.  Some of these barriers are high poverty rates, high rates of unemployment and under-employment, low academic achievement and high levels of crime, teen pregnancy, single-parent households and rent burden.

School-based Family Resource Centers and Lead Partners

• Bordeaux/Northwest FRC - Advisory Council Fund (PENCIL Foundation)
• Cole FRC (Conexion Americas)
• Fall-Hamilton FRC (United Neighborhood Health Services)
• Maplewood FRC (PENCIL Foundation)
• Napier FRC (Family & Children’s Service)
• Pearl Cohn FRC (Vanderbilt University)

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