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Step Up delivers compassionate support to people experiencing serious mental health issues, and persons who are experiencing chronic homelessness, to help them recover, stabilize, and integrate into the community. Through dynamic partnerships, we provide positive social and learning environments, vocational training, permanent supportive housing opportunities, and recovery services to empower individuals to cultivate lives of hope and dignity. We exercise innovative leadership and advocacy to increase public understanding, support and acceptance of all people living with serious mental health issues.

Childhelp exists to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children. We focus our efforts on advocacy, prevention, treatment and community outreach

To foster healing for grieving youth, their families and the community through peer support programs, counseling, training, education and outreach.

Jewish Family Services (JFS) has stood the test of time. Founded in 1901 as United Jewish Charities, JFS was one of the founding agencies of United Way of Greater Kansas City. From crisis to chronic challenge, mental to spiritual struggle, physical to psychic pain, birth to end of life, JFS provides a breadth of services: Food, Shelter and Employment, Older Adult Programs, Mental Health Services, Family Life Education, and Chaplaincy. Throughout its over 112-year history, JFS has responded to the needs of all Kansas Citians, regardless of religion, race or economic status; over half of the 5,000 individuals we serve each year are not Jewish.

Kentucky's young people are increasingly being victimized by abuse, neglect and family trauma. The Kentucky United Methodist Children's Homes responds to Christ's call to go into the world by providing quality social services for children and families. We have established a variety of services for children, adolescents and parents to bring healing and hope to often desperate situations. We believe every child is an individual of worth and is deserving of God's gift of wholeness of life. The scope of our services continues to grow and improve as new needs arise.

JFS Orlando's mission is to provide vital, high-quality and innovative social services to people in need. Services are provided to the community regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, age, gender or disability. 

The mission of Thompson Child & Family Focus is to embrace children ages birth to 18 who are at risk for social and academic failure. The agency accomplishes this by providing intensive treatment, protection, specialized education, and stabilized family environments through strategies of healing, teaching, worship and play. Through a variety of intensive programs, abused, neglected and homeless children find hope and healing. The overarching goal for all Thompson programs is that fragile, at-risk children move forward into safety and fulfillment.

The mission of Mental Health Advocacy Services is to protect and advance the legal rights of children and adults with mental disabilities, in order to maximize autonomy, promote equality, and secure the resources needed to thrive in the community. MHAS accomplishes its mission by providing free legal services with an emphasis on obtaining benefits and services, protecting rights and fighting discrimination.

It is our mission to provide support services to special needs children. Enlisting and empowering trained teenage volunteers to help facilitate at the programs, its effectiveness has proven to be remarkable. These volunteers have been able to reach the children in ways that professionals, or even family members, have not. Furthermore, the program has had a profound effect on the teenagers themselves, instilling within them the values of giving and gratitude.

From the website: "HIPS advances the health rights and dignity, of people and communities impacted by sex work and drug use by providing non-judgmental harm reduction services, advocacy, and community engagement led by those with lived experience."

To assist people with brain injury in reaching their highest level of independence through accessible services, family and caregiver support, community awareness and prevention of brain injuries.

Human Options ignites social change by educating Orange County to recognize relationship violence as an issue that threatens everyone, advocating for those affected by abuse, extending a safe place for victims and empowering survivors on their journey of healing.Our Vision: We are committed to a future in which every person and family in Orange County experiences safe, healthy relationships and lives free from fear.