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Community Impact
United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes funds 44 programs through 15 local non-profit organizations (funded agencies) on an annual basis. The programs provided by these agencies collectively assist approximately 24,000 residents in the City of Kawartha Lakes each year.
We are committed to building safe, caring, and sustainable communities. Each fall, a group of dedicated volunteers (Campaign Cabinet) devote their time and effort to help raise funds to support the vital programs provided by our funded agencies. Upon completion of the campaign, a "Citizen Review Panel" is convened, which consists of local members of the community. They review and assess the needs of the community and priorities of United Way in order to make decisions regarding the distribution of funds to the agencies. This investment of your financial support assures that the programs will be available from the agencies throughout the year.
Pontypool Cleanup
UNITED WAY FOR THE CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES
FUNDED AGENCIES AND SUPPORTED PROGRAMS
2007-2008
A PLACE CALLED HOME
* Emergency Hostel's On-Call Program
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KAWARTHA LAKES - HALIBURTON
* Couples match
* In-school mentoring
* Traditional one-to-one match
* Big Bunch
* Kids N' Kops
* Co-op in school mentoring
* Intergenerational mentoring
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KAWARTHA LAKES
* Core Funding
* Subsidized before & after school programming and transportation in Lindsay and the outreach communities of: Bobcaygeon, Coboconk, Dunsford, Fenelon Falls, Kirkfield, Manvers, Omemee, Woodville.
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - KAWARTHA LAKES BRANCH
* Trusteeship support program
CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
* Registration & referral
* Rehabilitation teaching
* Vision rehabilitation
* Orientation & mobility
CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY
* Disaster Management
* RespectED
COMMUNITY CARE CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES
* Falls prevention
* Specialized transit
* Meals on Wheels
* Respite Care
* A Time for ME
COMMUNITY LIVING KAWARTHA LAKES
* Community Connections - Caregivers Registry (respite care)
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF KAWARTHA LAKES & HALIBURTON
* Core funding
* "Straight Talk" - A preventions & intervention program in youth self management.
LEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF PETERBOROUGH - CITY OF KAWARTHA LAKES SERVICES
* Core funding
LIFELINE TELECARE
* Core funding
* Crisis phone-line
* Reassurance calls
ONTARIO EARLY YEARS CENTRE
* Rural Outreach Mobile Program
* Parent education program
ST. JOHN AMBULANCE
* Community service unit/brigade
* Cadet program
* Therapy dogs
VICTORIA COUNTY CAREER SERVICES
* Volunteer and community information program (www.fourinfo.com)
WOMEN'S RESOURCES
* Amy's Next Step Housing - Fenelon Falls
What is Community Matters?
Community Matters is a program which involved 17 of the smallest United Ways in Ontario funded by the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
United Way asked these four simple questions which allowed United Way for the City of Kawartha Lakes to enhance the impact of its funding and to build healthier, stronger communities:
1. What works well in your community?
2. What challenges does your community face?
3. What factors led to these challenges
4. Do you have any solutions?
We came to a community near you! Community Matters Discussion Groups have already taken place in Bethany, Bobcaygeon, Bolsover, Coboconk, Dalrymple, Fenelon Falls, Kinmount, Kirkfield, Lindsay, Little Britain, Omemee, Pontypool, and Woodville
Download the Community Matters Report here.
