United Way of Fairfield County is creating lasting change in our community by focusing on critical issues in three impact areas: Education, Income, and Health.

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EDUCATION: We are ensuring that children and youth achieve their potential by preparing them for success academicallym socially and emotionally. We are committed to: increasing kinergarten readiness, increasing parental involvement, decreasing risk factors among youth and increasing high school graduation rates and career access.

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INCOME: We are supporting services that help families maximize financial stability; increasing accessibility to safe, permanent, affordable housing; ensuring invidividuals and families in crisis have access to emergency food and shelter, are are adequately prepared for disasters and emergencies.

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HEALTH: We are supporting programs that increase that ability of elderly individuals and inviduals with disabilities to complete independent activities of daily living; increasing health care access to uninsured and underinsured individuals and families; and helping residents maintain healthy nutrition and physical fitness.

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Working together with a broad range of community partners, United Way's Community Impact process has identified community conditions that require change. We have developed strategies and goals with measurable outcomes. Local funding is invested of the basis of a program's/agency's ability to help our community succeed in one or more of these areas.