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Neighborhoods

Improving quality of life in Nashville’s most at-risk communities by engaging neighborhood groups and stakeholders

With transportation often a major barrier for this population, more neighborhoods need health and human services made available locally.

Seven disadvantaged communities in Nashville now have Family Resource Centers available.  Last year alone over 28,000 people got face to face services in their own neighborhoods, helping them break down transportation barriers and get the services they need.

Neighborhoods Focus Areas

By focusing on Building Strong Neighborhoods and Community based Family Resource Centers, United Way of Metropolitan Nashville helps at risk neighborhood residents get the services they need to lead stable, healthy and productive lives through programs that address barriers such as high rates of poverty, unemployment, under-employment, crime, teen pregnancy, single parent households, lower education levels, and high rent burden. 

Many of the programs supported through the focus areas of education, income and health are offered to our neediest citizens through a community-based Family Resource Center.

Neighborhood Program Partners

  • East Nashville Community Organizing Program (Neighborhoods Resource Center)
  • Future of Nashville Coalition Project (Neighborhoods Resource Center)
  • Nashville Prevention Partnership - Community Coalition Development and Action (Oasis Center, Inc.)
  • Nashville Prevention Partnership - Neighborhood Bridges Initiative (Oasis Center, Inc.)
  • North Nashville Community Organizing Program (Neighborhoods Resource Center)
  • Organized Neighbors of Edgehill (ONE – Organized Neighbors of Edgehill)
  • South Nashville Community Organizing Program (Neighborhoods Resource Center)
  • Southeast Nashville Latino Services (Catholic Charities of Tenn. Inc)
  • West Nashville Community Organizing Program (Neighborhoods Resource Center)
  • Community Based Family Resource Centers (Lead Agencies)
  • Bethlehem Family Resource Center (Bethlehem Centers of Nashville)
  • Cayce Family Resource Center (Martha O’Bryan Center, Inc.)
  • Edgehill Family Resource Center (Organized Neighbors of Edgehill)
  • McGruder FRC (Walker Comprehensive Health Center Inc.)
  • Northeast Family Resource Center (Salvation Army)
  • South Nashville Family Resource Center (Vanderbilt Center for Health Services)
  • St. Luke’s Family Resource Center (St. Luke’s Community House)

 

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