United Way of the Southern Alleghenies (UWLH)

the United Way of the laurel highlands (uwlh), serving cambria and somerset counties, has most recently been working to build a civic infrastructure around shared community goals, collaborative actions, evidence-based outcomes, and investment and sustainability. They evaluate, measure, and report to the community the positive change that occurs around trgeted social change initiatives. Uwlh's focus is on several long-term community social change initiatives as identified by the 2011 community needs assessment. They are: early childhood development, parental engagement, and youth drug & alcohol prevention. the top three social change initiative goals are: 1. Preparing all children socially, emotionally, and academically for kindergarten; 2. Increasing parental knowledge of child development and care, and; 3. Preventing substance abuse among our youth. Uwlh partners with many diverse local organizations that come together to solve these complex social problems and provide needed services in cambria and somerset counties. Specific evidence-based programming introduced and/or expanded in cambria and somerset counties to address the social change initiatives are: nurse- family partnership, parents as teachers, and botvin lifeskills training.

Emergency food and shelter programs provided funding to various food pantries and shelters in cambria county.

Community outreach services for health and human services that are available to residents in cambria and somerset counties

Community impact the United Way of the laurel highlands works to identify community needs, fund solutions to community problems and measure results of our community impact. Through our fundraising efforts many program and services are supported. Expenses 132,177, including grants of -0-. Revenues -0-. Agency designations achievements United Way of the laurel highlands honors individual donor requests to designate their contributions to any 501(c)(3) agency with health and human service programs. United ways around the United states perform this service for agencies as a courtesy to the individual donors. Expenses 27,833 including grants of 27,833. Revenues -0-.