Through this Targeted Care Area, United Way of Palm Beach County is helping children and youth achieve their potential.

Below is a list of just some of this Care Area's programs and partnerships that are having a measurable impact on residents in Palm Beach County.

Quality Child Care Programs
United Way is committed to funding quality childcare programs that provide education/training of staff, High/Scope curriculum, low-teacher child ratios and parent involvement. Society saves $7.16 for every $1.00 invested in children who receive quality childcare. This is a result of reduced need for special education programs, increased tax revenues because these children will earn more when they reach adulthood, low welfare usage and lower involvement in criminal justice system (State of the Child, 2002).

Prosperity Centers
Prosperity Centers offer Palm Beach County residents a one-stop source of services, including a matched-savings program for home ownership, help in resolving credit issues, money management assistance, benefits assistance and access, education and job assistance, plus free income-tax filing services. Prosperity Centers are a key component of the Prosperity Campaign.

Read more about the Prosperity Campaign

The Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre™
This program trains social, health care and education workers on how to teach cooking and nutrition classes to diverse communities. Trainers are taught culturally appropriate and nutritious meal preparation. They then go out to community organizations and churches to teach individuals. This is a program through the Palm Beach County Community Food Alliance, an initiative of United Way.

Read more about the PBC Community Food Alliance

This Targeted Care Area funds the following agencies: 

Achievement Centers for Children and Families
Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County
Children's Home Society of Florida, South Coast Division
CILO (Coalition for Independent Living Options)
Communities in Schools
Easter Seals Florida
Florence Fuller Child Development Centers
Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida Jeff Industries
Jupiter Pre-school, Thelma B. Pittman
Literacy Coalition of Palm Beach County
New Hope Charities
NOAH
PACE Center for Girls of Palm Beach County
Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA)
Transition Youth Council
YWCA of Palm Beach County
 

For more information on this Targeted Care Area and its projects, please contact United Way of Palm Beach County at (561) 375-6600.

If you are in need of services or assistance, please contact 211, an information and referral line funded by United Way of Palm Beach County. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 211 provides quick and easy access to the public to the more than 5,000 programs in Palm Beach County that provide services locally. The programs, projects, and services United Way supports are registered with 211.

Just dial 2-1-1, or (561) 383-1111, to get access to the many services offered in our community. You may also visit  211's Web site at www.211palmbeach.org