Partner Agency Programs

United Way Community Partner Agencies receive funding from the Community Impact Fund to deliever programs that create an impact in the Harrisonburg Rockingham County community.

United Way of Harrisonburg Rockingham County currently partners with 32 different agencies and funds 40 programs provided by the Community Partner Agencies.

Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Day Care Center: Sliding Fee Scale - Providing affordable day care for children in a safe and nuturing enviornment no matter the family income. 540.434.5268

Healthy Families of the Blue Ridge: Parent Education Program - Providing high-risk, first-time parents with parenting education, support, and referrals in order to give their children the best start inlife. 540.564.5982

MTC Foundation: Project 4T - Overcoming the educational barriers of teen parents and their preschool children to enable the parents to complete school. 540.879.2833

MTC Foundation: IMPACT: Intergenerational Modeling: Parents & Children Together - Empowering parents and thier pre-school age children to break the cycle of illiteracy, poverty, and dependency. 540.879.2833

Smart Beginnings of the Shenandoah Valley: Quality Rating and Improvement System - Improving the quality of care at local child care centers through mentoring and educating professional providers. 540.568.8968

Plains Area Daycare Center: Daycare Scholarships - Providing low income working parents with afforedable quality childcare. 540.896.4622

Office on Children and Youth: Gus Bus Early Literacy Program - Providing a free book bag exchagne program to children entering school and early literacy opporunities targeting the most at-risk children and families. 540.568.7083

Roberta Webb Child Care Center: Bridging the Gap - Enabling parents to be employed and productive with the knowledge that their childis in a safe, stimulating enviornment. 540.434.8699

Generations Crossing: Child Day Care Scholarships - Enabling children from infancy through age twelve in lower income working families to benefit from our intergenerational enviornment. 540.434.4901

Big Brothers Big Sisters: Community-Based Program - Providing activities and positive relationships by pairing at-risk youth in a one-to-one relationship with a screened and trained, caring adult mentor. 540.434.8886

Big Brothers Big Sisters: Hispanic Mentoring Program - Providing activities and positive relationships to at-risk Latino youth by paring them in a one-to-one realtionship with a culturally competent, trained, adult mentor. 540.434.8886

Child Care Connection: Parent Education and Support - Improving parenting skills and strenghtening fmailies through a teen-parent training program focused on positive and nuturing behaviors.  540.433.4531.

Hand-in-Hand Rescource Mothers Program:Hand-in-Hand Rescource Mothers Program - Reaching pregnant and parenting teens in our community and connecting them with rescources that will ensure a healthy pregnancy and child. 540.433.4340

Office on Children & Youth: Youth Data Survey - Compiling current data on high risk behaviors of local youth to deteremine trends and set priorities for funding and programs. 540.568.7083

Office on Children & Youth: Teen Pregancy Prevention - Providing information and teaching skills to help teenagers make healthy choices and avoid risky behaviors such as sxaul activity, drug, and alcohol use. 540.568.7083

Second Home: Before & After School Care - Providign a safe, afforadble place where academic enrichment, character building and recreational activitiesare offered to at risk children so that they will not be home alone before and after school. 540.432.6430

Collins Center: Child Victims of Sexual Assault Therapy - Providng scholarships for mental health treatment by licenced counselors to vicitims of sexual assult and their families. 540.432.6430

Emergency Services:

American Red Cross: Disaster Services - Providing emergency services to vicitims of local disasters, especially those displaced by a house fire. 540.886.9151

Elkton Area United Sercies: Emergency Assistance - Aiding families and individuals who are in immediate need of food, shelter, clothing, and utilites.

Collins Center: 24-Hour Crisis Sercies - Providing rescources to victims of sexual assault to help them manage at the time of crisis. 540.432.6430

Way to Go: Mobility: The Key to Self Sufficiency - Assuring that low-income working families have safe, affordable, and legal transportation to work and other essential destinations. 540.289.7171

First Step: Emergency Shelter for Survivors of Domestic Violence - Providing a safe environment for those facing hardship as a result of domestic violence. 540.434.0295

HARTS: Thermal Shelter - Providing safe, temporary emergency shelter to the homeless population during extreme weather conditions. 540.578.3868

Our Community Place: Educating and empowering indivudals towards self-sufficiency in a nuturing community. 540.441.7727

Empowerment Services:

New Bridges Immigrant Resource Center: Empowerment service - Empowering immigrant families with resources and assistance for self-sufficiency. 540.438.8295

Blue Ridge Legal Services: Legal Assistance to Low-Income Families - Providing funding to help make legal assistance available in civil matters of critical importance. 540.433.1830

Harrisonburg-Rockingham Free Clinic: Chronic Care Clinic - Providing comprehensive health care to uninsured, low-income adults with multiple chronic diseases. 540.433.5431

Mercy House: Safe at Home - Helping families gain skills and knowledge that will assist them in their process toward self-sufficiency. 540.432.1812

Skyline Literacy: ESL for Parents and Employees - Providing small group instruction in English for foreign-born adults who cannot easily attend ESL classes. 540.433.0505

Way to Go: A Way to Work - Providing down-payments on affordable vehicles for low-income working families. 540.289.7171

Center for Marriage & Family Counseling: Counseling the Under/Noninsured Population - Providing affordable, professional mental health services including individual, group, and family counseling for the low-income population. 540.433.1546

Fairfield Center: Community Mediation for Families - Empowering parents in crisis to listen, talk, and make plans cooperatively in the best interest of their children and families. 540.434.0059

Caregivers Community Network: Respite Program - Enabling low-income caregivers of frail, elderly or disabled adutls to have times of respite. 540.568.6682

Friendship Industries: Transportation Servcies - Providing transportation of persons with disabilites to and from training and employment. 540.434.9586

Blue Ridge Legal Services: Legal Assitance to Low Income Older Adults - Funding a half-time elderly service attorney to make legal assistance more accessible to low-income older adults. 540.433.1830

Valley Program for Aging Services: Meals on Wheels - Providing hot meals to the homebound elderly who are unable to secure adequate nutrition. 540.568.5687

Generations Grossing: Adult Day Care Scholarships - Giving frail, elderly, and disabled adults a safe, supervised and stimulating enviornment while their caregivers can continue their employment. 540.434.4901

Rebuilding Togehter: Community Matching Grants - Assisting low income elderly and disabled with home repairs in an effort to help them stay in their homes. 540.830.7759

The Arc: The Op Shop - Providing educational, cultural and social activities for adutls with intellectual and other developmental disabilites. 540.437.9214

Autum Valley Guardianship: Autumn Valley Guardianship - Providing guradianship services to legally incapacitated and indigent adults when no other option exists for the individual. 540.298.8150