Alzheimer's Community
Care
Adult day care can make a huge difference to families who are
dealing with caring for a patient who suffers from
Alzheimer's. ...
When a patient enters day care, immediately the quality
of life improves for the patient and the caregiver....
When you're caregiving
24/7, it's overwhelming. Caregivers suffer from illnesses
related to that stress. By utilizing day care, it not
only puts the patient into a wonderful, nurturing,
therapeutic environment, it gives that patient a social
life again.
And the caregiver can do more normal things in their
life. |
Video clip
Diane Black
interview
4:54 minutes
5.5 MB |
Big Brothers Big Sisters
We found a Big Sister volunteer for a young Indiantown
teenager at a time when she really
needed someone in her life to help her with her
confidence level and that she can become somebody. She's
on the right track and because of having a Big Sister
now, she's been able to make good grades
in school. She's looking to go to college to be a nurse.
She's had some bumps along the way, and the Big Sister
has been able
to help her get counseling when she's needed it. |
Video clip
Gigi Suntum
interview
2:54 minutes
3.3 MB |
Boys and Girls Clubs
Every day [a staff member]
noticed a girl riding her bike back and forth in front
of one of our clubs. ... She said to the girl, why don't
you come into the Boys and Girls Club and see what's
going on. She came as a guest that day, and the next day
her mother came in with her and registered her as a
member. As it turns out, mom didn't have a place for the
girl to go each day and because of that, she wasn't able
to get a job. After she enrolled the girl in the Club,
she was able to go out and get a job, which has changed
her life tremendously. |
Video clip
Stephanie Gray
interview
2:04 minutes
2.3 MB |
Healthy Start Coalition
My family became a client when my daughter-in-law delivered
her baby five weeks early. He was put into ICU, and we
weren't sure if he was going to make it. For the first
time I was put into a world that I
understood because I worked in it, but I saw it from a
whole different side. I was a client, and I was lost in
the world as a
client. And I was so thankful for all of the services
that were there and available to Dylan and to our family
because of United Way's commitment to how they work in
the community and the programs that they support. |
Video clip
Valerie Graham
interview
4:18 minutes
4.8 MB |
Hibiscus Children's
Center
Four young girls were removed from their home by the
authorities because of serious abuse and neglect. They
were ages 2-13 ... and after dealing with these horrible
circumstances, they were put in our shelter in Martin
County. Because of the services we are able to
provide because of the funding that the community and
United Way provides us, these four girls were able to
stay together in one facility -- not get split apart
into other
counties, away from school, away from friends. They're
together, they're safe, they have all their basic
necessities met, they're loved, they're cared for. And I
just found out that they're all getting to go home with
a family member very soon. |
Video clip
Tracy Natiello
interview
3:13 minutes
3.6 MB |
Children's Home Society
I have a story about a girl I'll call Amanda. At 9 years old she was abandoned
by her mother on Christmas Day. The police found her
wandering the
street by herself. She showed them where her house was
and they got there, there was nothing in the house. So
she was
placed in foster care. After a year or two, her mother
came back and wanted her to come live with her again. We
were able
to help that happen. But the mother
succumbed to drugs and abandoned her again. Here's a
child who had her heart broken twice. Since she was 12
years old, she has lived in the Children's Home Society
girls' group home. She's happy there but wanted to be
adopted. She's now 15 and recently matched
with a prospective adopted family. She's living with
them, and we are hoping that turns into an adoption. We
feel happy we have been able to take a child from
abandonment to adoption. |
Video clip
Tricia Jenkins
interview
2:22 minutes
2.6 MB |
| Helping People
Succeed The primary program where United Way
assists is the Early Intervention
Program where we work with families who have babies with
disabilities. Our goal is to equip the parent help their
child to grow and develop to their greatest potential.
... We teach them specific activities they can do to
help their child grow and develop. At the same time, we
can deal with the parents' specific issues about the
emotional part of finding out they have a baby with a
disability or needs special help. |
Video clip
Kathy Derringer
interview
3:35 minutes
4 MB |
| Jesus House of Hope
Our agency helps the hungry and people who are
struggling to work and pay their rent and bills. We have
a lot of low-income seniors. They're only making $500 to
$600 a month, and they're trying to make payments like
everyone else -- not to mention medication when that
comes up. We give them canned goods and help them
monthly, year-round, to help them to live a little bit
better life than they could. |
Video clip
Kathy Carmody
interview
3:30 minutes
3.9 MB |
| Martin County
Literacy Council We work with about 250 to 275
people every year. Most of what we do is individualized
instruction.... It's one volunteer sitting down with an
adult learner, working together to improve their skills.
Many times they are reading, writing, conversing at a
below third-grade level.... What we do, and what makes
our program somewhat unique is not only the one-on-one
attention but our focus on practical skills. Helping
that individual attain things that they can go out into
the community and apply almost immediately. |
Video clip
Russ Overholt
interview
7:32 minutes
8.5 MB |
| Volunteers in
Medicine Clinic My entire staff is volunteers --
volunteer doctors, volunteer nurses, volunteer clerical
staff. Our patients are the working poor... many don't
have benefits and they really have nowhere to go for
health care. So this is what we provide free of charge.
We have a budget of $500,000 and are able to provide
$5.7 million worth of care. For every dollar, you get
about $10 in return. |
Video clip
Mary Fields
interview
5:46 minutes
6.5 MB |
| United Way of Martin
County The 2006-07 local video from United
Way of Martin County features stories about how United Way has
made an impact in people's lives. At the end, Campaign Chairman
Richard Levine makes an appeal to his fellow business leaders
and community members.
|
Video
8:21 minutes
9 MB |
| United Way of Martin
County The 2007-08 local video
features some more of the stories and other projects in
which United Way of Martin County is involved.
|
Video
4:38 minutes
5 MB |
