UNITED WAY OF MCLEAN COUNTY

Community partnerships: programs to assist in building bridges between service providers to close gaps for a service-based approach for residents. In 2023, two initiatives came online that promote literacy and/or access to services. The dolly parton imagination library is a partnership between uwmc and the dollywood foundation and provides a book per month, free to the families, for any eligible child (under 5) in mclean county. Nearly 2,600 kids have signed up at this point. United way, along with other investors, helped carle bromenn purchase a brand new mobile medical unit that operates throughout mclean county to provide access to medical services, with a particular emphasis on reaching neighborhoods and communities that experience the greatest disparity in positive health outcomes.