Community Impact Family Resource Centers and the Senior Patrol - In one inner-city neighborhood, the elderly get…
Family Resource Centers
United Way’s network of Family Resource Centers is the one-stop-shop for health and human service needs in neighborhoods.
- Family Resource Centers (FRCs) serve 28,000 low income residents annually.
- In 2008, FRCs deliverd over 115,000 meals/food boxes and provided holiday assistance to more than 5,000 children, seniors, and families.
- Overall, 958 individuals were served through the various adult education programs offered
- Over 1,450 senior services were offered by FRCs last year.
- Youth services provided at all FRCs resulted in more than 3,000 youth being active in tutoring, mentoring, recreation and enrichment activities.
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.
Community based Family Resource Centers and partner 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)
Mary’s Story
Mary Jones and her two children fled her abusive husband and eventually found themselves at the YWCA’s domestic violence…
Read More »