UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL LOUISIANA INC

The goal of financial stability programs is to increase financial mobility and socioeconomic status of individuals and families. The focus is on alice (asset limited, income constrained, employed), building stronger families, vita (volunteer income tax assistance), lapri (louisiana prisoner reentry initiative), 2-1-1 program, disaster preparedness, and power to care. The organization also provides community investment grants to support agencies that align with the organization's focus and create partnerships to improve the community. Alice programs assist households that earn above the federal poverty level but cannot afford the basic cost of living.building stronger families programs provide knowledge and opportunity for a financially stable future through a scheduled training program, financial incentive and savings match and success coaching.vita provides free person-to-person tax help for individuals.lapri creates safer neighborhoods and better citizens by implementing a seamless plan of services and supervision developed with each returning citizen from imprisonment through transition, reintegration and aftercare in the community. Every prisoner returns to their community with the tools & resources needed for success.the 211 program is a free confidential service that offers convenient community connection to information and resources provided by trained, experienced staff 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This resource provides fast access to a database of community services in order to provide information about food, shelter, utility assistance, emergency and disaster relief, employment, education, veterans services, health care, addiction prevention and rehabilitation programs, support groups for mental illness or special needs, and a safe, confidential path out of physical and/or emotional domestic abuse.

Other program services include basic needs. The goal of this program is to provide community investment grants to support agencies that align with the organization's focus and create partnerships to improve the community.