United Way Of Hall County Inc

The compass center (the center) is an initiative designed to connect families in the local community with services to assist them with hunger relief,affordable housing, health care,educational resources,counseling or workforce development.

The purpose of the one hall program is to break the cycle of poverty in hall county by seeking to understand poverty from the perspective of our most vulnerable citizens. We work side-by-side with local churches and public, private and non-profit sectors to tackle the root causes of poverty in a holistic and sustainable manner. We study existing statistics and work directly with those experiencing poverty to develop strategies that must be understood and addressed at a high level by the community-at-large.

Read learn succeed is an internal initiative that encourages reading from birth. Research shows that the most critical brain development occurs before the age of three and that third grade reading level is a leading indicator of graduation success. The organization's goal through this initiative is that children enter pre-k and kindergarten ready to learn thus increasing graduation rates.

The mental health justice collaborative (mhjc) is a program that provides funding to enable qualified mental health counselors to assist law enforcement officers as they respond to situations where mental illness is considered to be a factor. The counselors act as liaison between the officers and the community, providing a coordinated community policing response including access to a variety of agencies.