United Way of Door County

United Way of Door County Mission Statement:
United Way of Door County exists to build a community where all people can achieve their full potential through education, financial stability and healthy lifestyles.

United Way of Door County Vision Statement:

Strengthening our community one life at a time.

Our Method
…Our stakeholders include donors who entrust us with their dollars; volunteers who contribute time and talent; partner organizations who provide direct services; and the members of our community whose lives are improved, directly and indirectly, by our presence. Our goal is that our presence reflects and balances the needs and expectations of our stakeholders. Our aim is to use our expertise to add value to Door County through assessing community needs; collaborating with and ensuring accountability of partner organizations; and identifying and raising funds.

To meet this vision we will:
Listen: we are in a unique position to bring together diverse voices and to balance diverse perspectives
Facilitate: we will sometimes lead, sometimes guide, sometimes push, and sometimes stay out of the way.
Protect our stakeholders interests.
Encourage innovation, recognizing that this will require taking risks and making mistakes
Respond to the changing needs of the work place, industry and society
We recognize the value of the lessons of the past; however, we face many challenges. We will be flexible, open and adaptable.

Door County’s Impact Goals to be facilitated by United Way of Door CountyBasic Needs:

Helping to meet basic needs for food, transportation, housing, safety, and jobs.

1. Work to insure that the Door County average unemployment rate is less than the State of Wisconsin average unemployment rate throughout the year.
2. Decrease the number of food insecure among those who are at or below 250% of the federal poverty level.
3. Decrease the number of individuals in unsustainable housing, based on calls/reports made in 2015Make Door County safer for vulnerable populations (older adults, victims of domestic and sexual violence, mentally and physically challenged, shut-ins, and the families of these specific populations) by enhancing the safety services available to them by 10% by 2015.
4. Provide access to public transportation services to 15% more individuals than in 2015.
5. Increase access to mentoring/job coach/technical education programs for all, beginning with high school age students.

Community: Enhancing neighbors, individuals, and families to continue to build strong relationships in caring for each other and understanding the roles and challenges each faces.

1. Encourage healthy relationships among youth and young adults and encourage responsible choices by decreasing the occurrence of teen pregnancy, teens needing treatment for STD’s, and teen violence.
2. Identify and advocate for “3rd places” in communities that are safe and nurture “family” members.
3. Increase the availability and effectiveness of abuse (emotional, physical, financial) prevention programs measured by the decreased use of reactionary services.
4. Increase educational resources available to “caregivers” of adults by 5% annually.
5. Increase educational resources available to parents/guardians by 5% annually.
6. Increase the hours of available childcare for weekend, extended hours, sick, and/or summer programming by 5% by 2016 in any of these areas.
7. Increase opportunities for children to obtain school supplies and payment of school fees.
8. Maintain and/or increase the level of low or no cost “family” events based on those offered in 2016.
9. Maintain affordability of licensed childcare centers.
10. Promote personal financial stability and literacy.

Health Care: Encouraging healthy lifestyles, access to dental, hearing, mental, primary, and vision health care.

1. Ensure the provision of affordable, accessible, and available mental health care (measure reduction in waiting lists).
2. Ensure the provision of affordable, accessible, and available primary health care including vision and hearing.
3. Increase available hours of affordable dental care for adults and children in Door County.
4. Increase healthy lifestyle knowledge base of Door County residents.
5. Increase the knowledge base of early intervention methods for primary health care.
6. Promote/advocate for Door County residents to increase their healthy behaviors.
7. Reduce the stigma around mental and emotional health issues in order to encourage community acceptance and integration.

Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse (AODA): Challenging the community to embrace change in the culture involving alcohol and other drug use.

Advocate for zero tolerance for drunk driving and other behaviors associated with AODA.

Increase the knowledge base related to the effects of alcohol and other drug use.

Promote/advocate for community dialogue to define healthy, responsible, and appropriate alcohol and other drug use.

Promote programs to support individuals and their families recovering from substance abuse.

Focus on the impact of AODA and the role that it plays in such behaviors including but not limited to: inappropriate sexual behaviors, violent acts, impaired mental and physical functioning, and inappropriate role modeling.

Support local and statewide legislation that promotes cultural change in alcohol and other drug use.