Program areas at UWMC
Rent and utility assistance: uwmc provides social services in the community as a lead partner to distribute government funding, developing and coordinating countywide programs to distribute rent and utility assistance for low income tenants affected by covid-19. Supported 920 households with over $6.5 million in direct payments administered through 7 partner organizations (king city, greenfield, hartnell college foundation, city of salinas, city of seaside, housing resource center, city of soledad). Uwmc supported housing stablity of 164 households by partnering with 5 agencies to distribute $24,640 in deposit assistance and provide housing navigation and case management support.
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 72 ffns through 118 playgroups, trainings, workshops, and reflective groups. 15 preschool service corps americorps members provided language and literacy tutoring to 104 children at 11 sites throughout Monterey County. Stuff the bus provided school supplies to students experiencing homelessness, generating 4,500 backpacks filled with supplies and distributed by school district homeless liaisons.
Other: conducting and sharing community assessments such as the communtiy health needs assessment and impact Monterey County, uwmc convenes, shares data, and inspires action for communtiy well being. To enhance connections to services, 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. 72 agencies are participating in the srn who refer clients to each others services. 139 srn programs were made available. 1,694 outgoing referrals were made. 271 referrals were accepted or enrolled. 155 participants attended network meetings.