United Way of Connecticut’s (UWC) service mission is to help meet the needs of Connecticut and its residents by providing information, education, and connection to services. United Way of Connecticut is proud to partner with the State of Connecticut, local United Ways, and many community partners to carry out our service mission through the following: •Through the 211 program, UWC helps people find and access basic needs such as shelter and food, provides suicide intervention services, and helps children and adults in crisis. •Through 211 child Care, Care 4 Kids and 211 Child Development Infoline, UWC provides information about child care, early intervention services, and developmental concerns. •When a natural disaster or personal crisis threatens or occurs, UWC provides people access to essential information before, during, and after the event. •As the statewide association of United Ways, UWC fosters collaboration and provides support for initiatives that benefit and improve our communities. Named one of Hartford Business Journal’s 2023 “Best Places to Work"

From prevention to crisis… The Village does whatever it takes to help children, adults and families transform their lives and achieve real and meaningful change. The Village has been serving children and families for over 200 years. Today, we are one of the most respected child and family serving organizations in the state, helping vulnerable children and families at all levels of need…from children who have severe emotional or mental health problems to those who need support and guidance to stay on a successful path. We have also grown and evolved to better serve the needs of our community by adding mental health and substance abuse services for adults and partnering with primary care service providers to form integrated pediatric clinics. Our mission is to build a community of strong healthy families who protect and nurture children. We believe that families can thrive despite traumatic experiences they may have suffered in the past or adversity that may overwhelm them now. Our continuum of behavioral health treatment and support services for children and adults allows us to customize programs to treat the whole person – mentally and physically – and help children, adults and families build resilience to overcome challenges that life throws at them. The work we do enables children to be socially and emotionally healthy, thrive in safe and permanent homes and to succeed academically. We help adults to be effective, nurturing caregivers, and be able to manage and prevent crises. Our work also builds strong, stable communities. That’s good for everyone – in every community. To learn more – and meet some of our clients and dedicated staff – visit www.thevillage.org or call 860-236-4511.

Meeting Street is where children of all abilities - birth to age 22 - receive individualized services from highly trained and dedicated educators, therapists, and allied professionals who work as a team to bring out the best in each and every child. We are a place of hope and possibilities for families, partnering to help parents and children achieve goals once thought impossible. Although we're known for helping children with profound special needs, we are a resource for all families interested in building strong foundations - nutritionally, educationally and emotionally - for their child. At Meeting Street we believe in the power of inclusion and foster it in all we do. Our goal is to create an environment, and ultimately a world, where individuals of all abilities learn, play, work, and live together. Meeting Street is driven by its values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity and excellence.

Children's Friend, a non-profit organization founded in 1834, is Rhode Island's oldest child welfare organization and a leading provider of child welfare, family support, mental health, and child development services. With centers in Providence, Pawtucket and Central Falls, Children’s Friend serves more than 30,000 of Rhode Island's most vulnerable children and their families each year.

Founded in 1903, Klingberg Family Centers is a private, nonprofit multi-service agency providing help to thousands of persons across Connecticut each year. Our goal is to extend hope and healing to children and families whose lives have been traumatized by abuse and/or neglect in its various forms, severe family problems and mental health issues. Through an array of group care, special education, foster care and community programs, children and parents are given the encouragement and skills they need to function more effectively at home, in school and in their community. Our main campus is located in New Britain, Connecticut. We also offer a wide range of community services from our office in Hartford.

In December of 1965, Cranston Community Action Program (CCAP) was incorporated as a Community Action Agency under the Economic Community Act and was charged to mobilize all resources toward the elimination of poverty and to provide participation of the poor and underserved in program decisions that affected them. At that time CCAP served Cranston, Coventry, Scituate and Foster. As many of our programs grew to include additional cities and towns outside that catchment area, we decided to change our name. In September of 1994 we officially became Comprehensive Community Action, but still CCAP. CCAP’s Mission Statement is quite simple: to empower all people and communities, challenged by poverty as well as social and cultural barriers, through advocacy, education, and access to high quality health and human services. Today, CCAP serves more than 20,000 Rhode Islanders with programs in Cranston, Warwick, Coventry, Providence, Pawtucket, Scituate, and Foster. Programs include: counseling services, health centers and dental care, food, housing and fuel assistance, weatherization, family support and services, Headstart, day care, emergency assistance, education, and job training.

Founded in 1972, Way Finders builds and advocates for a thriving and equitable region by improving the stability and economic mobility of families and individuals, together with developing and managing a wide range of housing to support strong communities. The largest nonprofit housing provider in Western Massachusetts, Way Finders provides housing counseling, financial education, employment training, affordable housing development and management, rental assistance, homelessness prevention services, neighborhood revitalization, and community building.

The Mission of the Guild of St Agnes is to provide families with quality, affordable early childhood education and school age programs in a safe, nurturing environment for children four weeks to twelve years. Welcome to the Guild of St. Agnes, a long standing, educational, private, non-profit child care agency founded in 1913. As the largest early education and care agency in Central Massachusetts, the Guild serves approximately 1,600 children at 8 child care sites, 125 licensed family homes and 11 school age programs. All of these services are licensed by the MA Department of Early Education and Care and our Centers are accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the premier designation in the United States for identifying high quality child care services.

Horizons' mission is to create and sustain person-centered opportunities for people with special needs where they live, learn, work and play.

THE ARC OF BLACKSTONE VALLEY is a medical practice company based out of 500 PROSPECT ST, Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States.

Kennedy-Donovan Center, Inc. (KDC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1969 on the principle that all individuals have the right to participate and thrive in their community. Kennedy-Donovan Center supports people with developmental delays, disabilities or family challenges to pursue their personal potential and success in the community. We fulfill our mission through a number of programs, which we offer in several regions: Early Intervention (EI), Early Intervention Partnerships, Healthy Families, KDC School (a 240-day developmental day school), Day Habilitation Services, Family Support Services/ Respite Care, Intensive Foster Care, and Transitional Job Support, as well as various residential support programs: Shared Living, Adult Family Care, Supported and Supervised Living, and Individual Support. Each year, our diverse and dedicated staff of 600+ employees and 300 respite home care providers and foster parents, serves over 10,000 children, adults and families with (or at risk for) developmental disabilities or delays, and their families. We meet the needs of disabled individuals and their families throughout their life – from pregnancy, infancy, and childhood, into adulthood and the senior years. We operate a range of programs, including many in-home services, from eight community offices and 10 residences, to families in 160 communities across eastern and south central Massachusetts. We cover over 50% of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.