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Promoting Financial Stability and Independence

Without the ability to earn livable income, parents are unable to provide meals for their children, individuals cannot retain housing, and our community as a whole is left vulnerable. In 2007, the Hampton Roads’ poverty level was estimated at 10.8%*, ranking our region above the state average. United Way recognizes this crisis and is working towards alleviating circumstances that has forced our friends, neighbors, and families to be financially insecure.

United Way of South Hampton Roads maintains a safety net for families and individuals in crisis through partnerships with local human service agencies. We help provide skills training, career development and financial education. Through these efforts, United Way is making our neighborhoods strong, healthy, and safe for everyone.

United, we will promote financial stability and independence.

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Promoting Financial Stability and Independence.

Our Challenge:

In South Hampton Roads, over 15,000 families with minimal incomes pay in excess of 35% of their income for housing. Most are lower-income working families who are not financially stable. Added to this cohort are almost 1,400 documented homeless individuals living in our communities last year.

Our Community
Measurement Areas:

  • Maximize Income: More working families increase their income.
  • Ending Homelessness: Ending Homelessness in South Hampton Roads in 10 years.

Our Programs:

  • Financial Stability Partnership is an initiative aimed at helping individuals and families attain and preserve assets, become more financially stable, and achieve long-term economic independence.
  • South Hampton Roads Earned Income Tax Coalition (SHREITC) provides quality volunteer tax services to eligible citizens, while seeking to educate, inform, and communicate the value of financial literacy to citizens of South Hampton Roads.
  • Project Homeless Connect is an event that takes place in Norfolk and Chesapeake and connects the homeless with: Dental Services, DMV IDs, Eyeglasses, Family Services, Food, HIV testing, Housing Information, Hygiene Products, Medical Care, and much more.

* http://hamptonroadsperforms.org/indicators/economy/poverty.php

 
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