$863K in expenses

Early care and education: UWMC continued collaborating with community stakeholders to improve access to quality child care. UWMC supported family, friends, and neighbors (FFN) program in providing home-based, low-cost, high-quality early childhood education to help ensure children are academically, socially, and emotionally prepared to enter kindergarten. Program grants supported 77 FFNS through 288 playgroups, trainings, workshops, and home visits. 10 preschool service corps americorps members provided language and literacy tutoring to 109 children at 9 sites throughout monterey county. Stuff the bus provided school supplies to students experiencing homelessness, generating 6,705 backpacks filled with supplies and distributed by school district homeless liaisons.

$551K in expenses

211 monterey county: UWMC connects people to services by providing referrals to health and human services via phone, internet, and text, with a large increase in services in response to covid-19. Services provided by bilingual call specialists with interpretation available in over 300 languages 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We made 18,753 referrals to 12,308 callers and had 72,575 website searches. To enhance connections to services, 455 bi-directional referrals were made through uwmcs smart referral network (SRN). It allows users to make closed loop referrals. Case managers, other front-line workers, and residents in need of services use the program to identify needed services in the county 211 health and human service database and more effectively enroll in them.

$435K in expenses

Other: UWMC developed the hope and help network to bring together providers of mental health and substance use disorders to increase access and coordination for community members. UWMC conducts the annual community service awards recognizing volunteers, facilitates the allocation of safety net grants for emergency food and shelter, and continutes to provide community assessments and data from the real cost measure and impact monterey county reports.

$434K in expenses

Asset building: the volunteer income tax assistance service helped 1,305 households file their tax returns and generated $2,470,000 in refunds through 83 volunteers and eight sites throughout the county; provided job placement and case management for 159 calworks customers to build skills and create a path to employment. 35 financial literacy workshops presented to 642 residents below the poverty level.

$401K in expenses

Community impact center the united way monterey county community impact center is located at 232 monterey street, in the heart of downtown salinas. It is a hub for collaboration and innovation amongst community based organizations. We offer conference rooms and meeting spaces to support the work of like-minded nonprofit organizations, schools, and government agencies across monterey county. At 32,000 square feet, it currently houses offices for five service providers and offers five conference rooms for community use. Last year, 195 meetings were held by 34 different organizations involving 3,996 attendees.

$178K in expenses

Housing stabilization: UWMC provides social services in the community as a lead partner to distribute government funding, developing and coordinating countywide programs to support housing stablity. UWMC partnered with 5 agencies to distribute $ 709,566 in deposit assistance and provide housing navigation, closed loop referrals, and case management support for 1,214 households.