American Red Cross, Pikes Peak Chapter
- Provides relief to victims of disasters
- Helps prevent, prepare for and respond to emergencies by providing international, national and community-based programs
- Assists worldwide military and their families with emergency communication
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Care and Share Food Bank
- Provides emergency and supplemental food to the hungry
- During the 2011-12 fiscal year (July to June), Care and Share distributed 17,623,945 pounds of food through our two Southern Colorado warehouses. That is the equivalent of 14,686,620 meals.
- Supports nutrition programs for children, the elderly and chronically ill
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Ecumenical Social Ministries
- Prevents families from becoming homeless and/or jobless and helps them meet basic life needs
- Assists with payment of prescription medications and medical needs for low-income and indigent clients
- Offers on-site mental health services and long-range planning for economic stabilization
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Griffith Centers For Children, Chins Up Youth & Family Services
- Provides crisis respite care, and long-term and therapeutic foster homes
- Offers family preservation programs, shared family care and case management
- Recruits and trains qualified, caring foster and adoptive homes
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Marian House, Catholic Charities
- Serves the elderly, disabled, working poor and homeless
- Provides daily nutritious, hot meals at the soup kitchen
- Offers on-site and mobile client services including food and gas vouchers, emergency services, clothing and supplies
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Mercy’s Gate
- Strengthens families by assisting with short-term crisis and community referrals
- Provides assistance with rent, utilities, medical costs and transportation
- Offers counseling, legal and tax return assistance and programs for children
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Partners In Housing
- Helps homeless families and individuals achieve self-sufficiency, not just housing
- Provide services such as case management, life skills training, budget counseling and therapy
- Operate 70 transitional housing units
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Peak Vista Community Health Centers
- Largest provider of primary medical and dental care for low-income, uninsured families in the Pikes Peak region
- Provides family health, prenatal, birthing, dental, specialty and immediate care
- Offers critically needed specialty care to indigent patients and eye care to seniors
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Pikes Peak Community Action Agency
- Stabilizes families in crisis by providing basic life needs and child-care assistance
- Provides personal development programs, job training and budget counseling
- Offers clients matched savings accounts for housing, education and small business investment
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The Salvation Army
- Offers social services, rehabilitation and outreach to families, youth and seniors
- Provides transitional housing to help aid in self-sufficiency
- Operates the region’s primary homeless shelter
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Silver Key Senior Services
- Committed to helping the elderly age safely with dignity and independence
- Assists with housing, medical needs, personal care and home improvements
- Delivers meals, provides transportation to elderly and offers companionship
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Southeast Family Center Armed Services YMCA
- Serves military families in enlisted ranks with crisis prevention and stress reduction
- Provides low cost or no cost memberships and programs for families of deployed military
- Offers programs and classes on budgeting, parenting, healthy cooking and wellness
- Partner with military morale, welfare and recreation programs
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Tri-Lakes Cares
- Supports families and the disabled with resources to keep them in their homes
- Assists the jobless or laid off and the mentally or physically disabled
- Operates a free medical clinic for the uninsured and underinsured
- Makes referrals for areas of acute need, and physical and mental health services
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Urban Peak
- Serves homeless and runaway youth by encouraging them to turn their lives around
- Offers drop-in services, street outreach and intensive case management
- Stabilizes youth by helping them acquire skills to obtain education, jobs and housing
- Has a transitional housing program with supportive, expanded services in the community
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Westside CARES
- Help working poor on the west side of El Paso County remain self-sufficient
- Provides emergency assistance with rent, utilities, food, clothes, bus passes, eye exams and glasses, school supplies and laundry
- Offers nursing care, medications and guidance for congregational health programs
- Assists with referrals for services not provided in-house
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