United Against Poverty
Helping families and individuals with a Hand UP
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Our work is shaped by the understanding that, we can create lasting change to combat poverty. Our approach is centered on helping people help themselves; offering hope and a hand UP rather than a hand out. And together we can bring about that change.
Our Mission
&
Vision
United Against Poverty was incorporated in 2003 with the vision of helping communities where every family and individual has access to basic needs, nutritional food, crisis care, education, and employment training, and where everyone has the opportunity to achieve a future filled with hope and possibilities.
Our Purpose: To empower families and individuals to lift themselves to sustainable economic self-sufficiency.
Our Mission: To serve families and individuals by providing crisis care, case management, transformative education, food and household subsidy, employment training and placement, personal empowerment training and active referrals to other collaborative social service providers.
Our work is shaped by the understanding that, together, we can create lasting change to combat life’s most difficult challenges.
Our Values
Dignity. Integrity. Respect.
Compassion. Empowerment.
Responsibility. Collaboration.
Holistic Approach.
Programs
UAP offers programs to help stabilize the foundations of our communities and foster the confidence needed to lift them to sustainable economic stability.
Lifting Lives
Our approach is centered on helping people help themselves; offering hope and a hand UP rather than a hand out. Today, our UP Centers annually serve more than 59,640 unique households through our programs and services, with a monthly average of 450 families receiving assistance. Our UP Centers serve those whose household income is at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.
Positive
Impact
Read through our Success Stories to learn more about the individuals we’ve helped on their journey to self-sufficiency.
