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To pragmatically facilitate the provision of quality health, quality education for children, skill acquisition and training for Women and Young Girls, complemented with life-enhancing infrastructures and social amenities towards improved lifestyles for the Less Privileged in sub-urban and Rural Communities.

MISSION: To support and sustain Illinois' Children Advocacy Centers through leadership in Resource Development, Education and, Collaboration.VISION: The need of children and families are paramount in the public health response to child abuse and Illinois CACs and MDTs are valued and essential partners in that effort.

As a community center Bronx House offers dynamic educational, health, recreational and cultural programs that are enriching and meaningful. Guided by our Jewish communal values and traditions, Bronx House welcomes all people to engage in opportunities to lead a better life.

To support a national network of Parent to Parent programs to ensure access to quality emotional support for families of individuals with disabilities and/or special health care needs. Parenting a child or adolescent with special needs is challenging. Parent to Parent support, the formal "matching" of a parent or primary caregiver with an experienced, trained Support Parent - someone who understands because they have "been there" - has been shown through research to be effective in helping families find the resources they need to navigate health and education systems and to access the support they need to experience the fullness of life in their community of choice.

Empower Yolo's mission is to promote safe, healthy, and resilient communities.Empower Yolo's purpose is to provide:(a) Twenty-four hour crisis intervention, emergency shelter, confidential counseling, training, legal assistance, and other services for individuals and families affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, human trafficking, and child abuse;(b) Resource centers for community services to improve the health, social, educational and economic outcomes of Yolo County residents; and,(c) Community outreach and educational programs about available resources to promote health, reproductive equity, stability, and self-sufficiency for individuals and families.

Knit For Life is a network of volunteers who use the healing experience of knitting to enhance the lives of cancer patients and their caregivers during treatment and recovery. It provides a program of instruction for beginning and experienced knitters and crocheters in a nontraditional therapeutic environment. Through knitting, patients escape isolation as they share their experiences and concerns. They receive both mental and physical support, and they learn about the cancer process in ways that help support thoughtful decision-making and self-advocacy. New friendships are founded and support for each other begins to grow and flourish.

NAC’s mission is to provide innovative high quality services in support of birth, foster, and adoptive families caring primarily for medically complex children. NAC’s mission includes children with severe physical, emotional, and behavioral challenges and developmental disabilities. NAC’s services enable children to remain in or to be returned to their families whenever possible or to be adopted by loving families. Working primarily with children whose birth families live in poverty, NAC’s continuum of services ensures that children’s physical, social, educational, recreational, medical, and mental healthcare needs are met.

Alive Medical Services (AMS) exists to provide and model comprehensive prevention, care, treatment, and support of HIV and other health needs for its clientelle using a holistic approach incorporating education, training, and research to empower them to live a quality life.

Creating an enabeling environment whereby social and cultural integration of marginalized and vulnerable children and women will occur, strengthening them through childcare, protection, skills training, health awareness, schooling and family re-unification resulting in dignity and independence of the individual and the community.

Earth Trust works to give tools to tribals and villagers to farm their land in a sustainable way, to develop responsibility for Primary Health solutions with traditional answers and to give rural children inspiration, skills & passion for revitalising their communities & land. Email: earthtrust@gmail.com

The mission of the Columbus Diaper Coalition is to provide free diapers to babies while supporting families facing financial hardship and experiencing diaper need. We believe access to clean diapers is a basic human need, essential to the health and well-being of children.

The mission of Haiti Child Sponsorship is to provide a quality education, basic health care, and one hot meal per day to the students of The Good Shepherd School / Ecole Baptiste Bon Berger in Pele, Haiti bringing dignity, hope and a future to the community.