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UNITED WAY PRIORITY PROGRAMS

The United Way of Prince Edward Island helps to finance a great number of programs and services across the Island every year by focusing on community needs. These programs and services represent five population groups: Families, Children, Youth, Seniors and Persons with Disabilities.

             PRIORITY PROGRAMS FOR 2008-2009 UNITED WAY CAMPAIGN

1.  After School Program Adventure Group
The purpose of this program is to provide young children in the Charlottetown area with a safe place to go after school. Many of children have no place to go until their parents/guardians return home from work. This program will also encourage youth to stay in school by providing opportunities to develop skills which will assist them in preparing for their future.

2.  After School ProgramSummerside Boys & Girls Club
After School Transport & Care is a program directed towards children and youth ages 6 to 18 in order to provide supervision and transportation after school. This program installs the vital curriculum of active living in a wide variety of ways so that participants enjoy these times and enhance their bodies through physical recreation.

3.  After School EnhancementCharlottetown Boys & Girls Club
The goal of this program is to deliver an accessible, quality program through intentional, well organized and developmentally appropriate programming for children, youth and their families in our community. The program is offered to elementary school aged children between the ages of 6 and 12 years.

4. Be Smart, Be SafeSenior Active Living Center
Senior Support program responds to the needs of seniors by offering information and education which will enable them to remain independent, happy, and secure in their own homes. The program includes ongoing sessions on medication awareness and costs; sleeping difficulties; adjustments to death of a loved one and preparation for one’s own death.

5.  Breakfast Program - Summerside Boys & Girls Club
The Free Morning Nutritional Breakfast Program provides a nutritional breakfast for those in need, thus allowing them the energy to succeed in their educational curriculum, growth of muscles, reduce opportunities of sickness and countless other benefits. It is directed towards the age group of 6 to 18 years of age.

6.  Breaking Barriers - Summerside Boys & Girls Club
Breaking Barriers is a program, which aims to provide family participants with the knowledge, skills and confidence they need to make life altering changes in their lives in regards to Financial Management and Planning.


7. Credit Counselling - Family Service of PEI
Credit Counselling Service Program helps people to cope with problems with regards to the adequacy and management of their personal and family finances. It teaches people to be responsible for their financial health to make them better citizens.

8. Drop In Program - Summerside Boys & Girls Club
Drop In Program assists hundreds of Summerside children and youth in their daily lives by installing the support systems necessary to become fulfilled individuals and introduce them to the world that exists around them. This program is directed towards the children and youth ages 6 to 18 years.

9. Healthy Living for Life - Canadian Diabetes Association
The goal of this program is to increase Island seniors’ awareness, education and knowledge that their lifestyle/choices in the areas of eating and exercise are contributing factors towards the increase in Diabetes diagnoses in PEI.

10. Independence TrainingCNIB
Independence Training Program aims to provide people with vision loss with the skills/supports necessary allowing them to remain independent and productive members of their families and communicties helping to reduce their feelings of unhappiness or depression.

11.Let's Get Active - Summerside Boys & Girls Club
Let's Get Active Program aims to enhance participation in physical activities for the target group of Families aged 25 to 60 by reducing the barriers and concerns that are affecting Summerside and area families in area of financial & accessibility in regards to healthy living.

12.Peer Support Volunteer Program - CNIB
Peer Support Volunteer Program aims to provide more focus on the emotional well being of Islanders with failing vision. It provides individual and grounp counselling that addressed teh issued of lonliness, unhappniness and depression.


13.Safe SeniorsPEI Seniors Safety Program
The goal of this program is to help Island seniors remain independent, safe and secure in their own homes. This program informs them about home security, personal safety, fall prevention and the availability of community services and how to connect with these services.

14.Seniors Healthy LivingMorell Regional Community Learning Centre
The Senior Healthy Living is a program that will encourage participants to control their health. The goal of the program is to increase knowledge & use of healthy cooking techniques,healthy eating habits, exercise activity and develop a peer group of adults.

15.Social Seniors ProgramMorell Regional Community Learning Centre
Social Seniors Program aims to increase the opportunities for participation in social activities and events for all seniors regardless of their financial situations. It also helps to decrease feelings of loneliness, boredom and isolation in local seniors.

16.Strategies for CaregiversLearning Disabilities Association
This program aims to increase a caregiver’s capacity to identify the triggers of emotional stress, learning disability and to improve the coping strategies for PEI caregivers to achieve balance in work, education and maintaining healthy family relationships.

17.Summer of Fun - Summerside Boys & Girls Club
Summer of Fun program aims to provide fun/safe environment for children between the ages of 6 to 12 by providing a wide variety of summer activities. It provides free recreational programming, resources and support to increase their standard of living and overall wellness.

18.Survival Center for Youth - Charlottetown Boys & Girls Club
The Survival Center for youth program offers the provision of support services to the youth between the ages of 16-29 in the community. It aims to provide youth with a safe place off the streets. It delivers services to youth who are homeless or at the risk of becoming homeless, by providing greater self-sufficiency and by reducing their chances of experiencing homelessness in the future.

19.Vision Loss Education & Awareness ProgramCNIB
The Vision Loss Education Program aims to increase the knowledge and awareness among seniors, health care professionals and youth(Grade 4 Elementary Students) in PEI about eye conditions, eye health care and eye disease prevention techniques.

20.Youth Credit CounsellingFamily Service of PEI
Youth Credit Counselling Service Program helps youth to cope with problems with regards to the adequacy and management of their personal finances. It teaches youth to be responsible for their financial health to make them better citizens.

For more detailed information on the programs, please call: (902) 894 8202 or Toll Free: 1-877-902-4438

United Way of Prince Edward Island
P.O.Box 247, Charlottetown, PE C1A 7K4 Toll Free:1-877-902-4438

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