United Way Of Monterey County

Early care and education: uwmc supports a family, friends, and neighbors (ffn) program in providing home-based, low-cost, high-quality early childhood education to help ensure children are academically, socially, and emotionally prepared to enter kindergarten. Program grants supported 119 ffns through 143 playgroups, trainings, workshops, and home visits. 11 preschool service corps americorps members provided language and literacy tutoring to 104 children at 9 sites throughout monterey county. Stuff the bus provided school supplies to students experiencing homelessness, generating 4,892 backpacks filled with supplies and distributed by school district homeless liaisons.

211 monterey county: uwmc connects people to services by providing referrals to health and human services via phone, internet, and text. Services provided by bilingual call specialists with interpretation available in over 300 languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We made 18,349 referrals to 13,040 callers and had 53,594 website searches. In addition, 1,469 bi-directional referrals were made through uwmcs smart referral network (srn). It allows case managers, other front-line workers, and residents to make closed loop referrals to enroll in needed services with a network fo 83 agencies.