LOCAL UNITED WAY SUPPORTED BY WIDE VARIETY OF AGENCIES

Listed are United Way agencies that support the community. (Dollar amounts are allocations for 1994)

American Heart Association: $23,205. Conducts research and provides educational material and programs to all residents.

American Lung Association: $11,000. Does research and offers educational material and programs to all residents.

American Red Cross: $60,000. Provides classes in CPR, first aid, aquatic safety, and other educational programs; conducts blood drives and provides disaster relief.

Association for Retarded Citizens: $35,000. Offers services for mentally retarded\developmentally disabled and handicapped.

Boy Scouts: $34,000. Serves youth and families by providing a program to develop citizenship, character, and outdoor skills.

Cancer Research: $4,039.

Cape Senior Center: $10,000. Helps provide meals delivered daily to home bound elderly citizens.

Cape County 4-H: $2,000. Helps prepare young people for future by offering a variety of program opportunities.

Civil Air Patrol: $700. Offers aerospace education to young men and women.

Civic Center: $39,000. Provides facilities and programs for "at risk" low income youth.

Easter Seal Society: $20,000. Provides special training for handicapped children at early learning center.

Family Learning Center: $30,000. Works with children who have significant emotional\behavioral problems and their families.

Gibson Recovery Center: $31,000. Social detoxification services are provided to residential and outpatient clients.

Habitat For Humanity: $4,500. Offers a program to build homes for low income families.

Hoover Eldercare Center: $4,000. Offers organized day time activities for elderly residents.

Jackson Ministerial Alliance: $2,250. Provides short term support for local and transient people in need of housing, medicine, food, utilities, gasoline, etc.

Jackson R-2 Schools: $2,500. Maintains fund to provide children in need with school supplies, shoes, clothing and medical and dental needs.

Jackson Senior Center: $8,550. Helps provide meals delivered daily to home bound elderly residents.

Lutheran Family and Children's Services: $14,000. Offers various types of counseling and family life education.

Otahki Girl Scout Council: $34,000. Provides program to prepare girls in citizenship and for adult life.

Radio Information Service: $2,000. Provides closed circuit radios for citizens with impaired vision.

Safe House for Women: $15,000. Offers emergency shelter and food for women and children and a 24-hour hotline.

Salvation Army: $44,900. Offers variety of services including assistance in food, rent, utilities, emergency and transient lodging, clothing and prescription drug assistance.

V.I.P. Industries: $5,000. Employs handicapped workers.

USO: $499. Offers support to service men and women and their families.

FISH Volunteers: New for 1995. Assists transients and residents with emergency services, food, utilities, medication, transportation, etc.