What a great summer we had and an eventful year here at United Way.
At the end of 2013, United Way, the Kitsap Community Foundation and the Suquamish Tribe became partners with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in a program called Building Community Philanthropy (BCP). This past year our work centered on how we could best invest $1 million dollars from a grant to help break the cycle of poverty within families.
The answers were derived from a survey taken by the Kitsap Community Health Priorities (KCHP), which helped identify the most important issues that need to be addressed. KCHP’s original members, United Way of Kitsap County, the Kitsap Health District and Harrison Medical Center invited the Kitsap Community Foundation to join the partnership. Working together with BCP, they zeroed in on the importance of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and how they impact a child’s ability to learn. The focus moving forward is to help children overcome ACEs and build resiliency. Additional KCHP priorities identified include: mental health, affordable housing/homelessness, community health, youth substance abuse and prevention and living wage jobs.
[For more of this story, written by David Foote, go to http://www.centralkitsapreport.../news/277820831.html]
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