On Monday, December 12th, United to End Homelessness coordinated a planning session with leaders of the greater Houston County area. 

As part of its Pink Promise United initiative, United Way of Central Georgia has announced a new partnership with Atrium Health Navicent and Houston Healthcare to provide breast cancer screenings and treatment to uninsured and underinsured women in 15 Central Georgia counties.

Hosted by Macon-Bibb Parks and Recreation Department, UWCG's Birdies for Brookdale Golf Tournament returns for its second year on Saturday, November 12th at Historic Bowden Golf Course (3111 Millerfield Road) with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. Funds raised by the tournament will benefit Brookdale Resource Center.

United Way of Central Georgia is committed to improving early childhood education and grade level reading through community partnerships and volunteers.

United Way of Central Georgia has hired Reverend Dr. Jake Hall as the Executive Director of its newest initiative, United to End Homelessness. In this role, Dr. Hall will lead the effort to develop, coordinate, and implement a comprehensive strategy to end housing vulnerability in Central Georgia by working with service providers, community members, funding agencies, and people experience homelessness or housing vulnerability. 

United Way of Central Georgia’s United to End Homelessness initiative is immediately beginning its work to bring together providers of homelessness support services, engaged community members, government agencies, and others to begin developing a county-wide strategic plan to end homelessness. The first strategy sessions to begin developing this plan were held at the Robert Train Building (175 Oglethorpe Street) on Thursday, October 20, from 11:00 a.m.

In 2015, Horace Holmes, Jr. joined United Way of Central Georgia. We spoke with him about his role in providing hope to people seeking assistance from United Way.   

What does a typical day at United Way look like for you? 

Veronica Benitez contacted the 2-1-1 help line to find diapers and found that United Way of Central Georgia offers a variety of family services. 

"It took me awhile to call, but when I received a response from United Way, it was just so friendly, that I felt like I had finally had someone I could turn to," explained Veronica. 

United Way of Central Georgia is proud to announce that Daniel Charles, the program supervisor for Parents as Teachers, has been named the Georgia Home Visiting Supervisor of the Year. Daniel was selected from nearly 40 home visiting programs in the state. Daniel supervises our Parent Educators who provide home visits and family connection meetings to families in our local communities using an evidence-based model for parent education. The program provides parents with resources and knowledge to help their children succeed at school and in life.  

United Way of Central Georgia's commitment to disrupting the cycle of family poverty starts at birth. Children born into poverty have greater odds of not being ready for school than children not born into poverty. Our Parents as Teachers program enrolls families from the beginning of pregnancy until the child enters kindergarten. Over 500 families were served this past year through one of our birth-eight initiatives.