The following programs are currently funded through the United Way of North Idaho, Kootenai County Community Care Fund.
CDA Food Bank
The Coeur d’Alene Food Bank serves as a safety net designed to provide stability and security for elderly and disabled individuals and those faced with critical needs associated with unemployment, serious or chronic medical conditions and other life emergencies.
Community Action Partnership
Firewood Home Heating
Senior clients need help with firewood, primarily when it is their only source of heat, as well as wheelchair ramps, railings and grab bars. Providing seniors with information and referral assistance is an added benefit during interaction.
ElderHelp of North Idaho
Family Promise Day Center
“Where Everybody Knows Your Name” day center at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church is a home like setting for families to work toward sustainability. They meet several times a week with the Family Service Coordinator to define and track goals. Families have the technology and support they need.
Family Promise of North Idaho
Fresh Start
Fresh Start has three key programs: a drop-in day center, a free medical clinic, and emergency overnight warming center. Clients can receive free showers, laundry, mail service, phone service, food, clothing, and financial help for obtaining identification cards and prescriptions, and information on employment opportunities.
Fresh Start
Domestic Violence Assistance
The ILAS Domestic Violence Program is designed to meet the civil legal needs of low-income victims of domestic violence by providing them attorney representation, primarily in domestic relations court cases involving divorce, child custody, and, in rural areas, civil protection orders. We The ILAS Domestic Violence Program also offers a toll-free statewide advice line.
Idaho Legal Aid
Relatives as Parents
Approximately 1 in 10 local children are being raised by caregivers other than their natural parents. These children face increased emotional, legal, and financial challenges. Part of the solution to these challenges lies greatly in the advocacy, advice and services provided by Relatives as Parents.
Kootenai Alliance For Children and Families
Senior Companions
Sixty-four volunteers of Panhandle Health District’s Senior Companion Program will be trained to go into the home of a homebound senior and provide friendly ongoing visits, advocacy and education of local resources, access to transportation for food and healthcare, and light assistance with day to day in-home activities allowing seniors to remain independent in their own home. Panhandle Health
Grocery Rescue Program
The Grocery Rescue Program is the collection, processing and distribution of food products for the direct benefit of those we serve. It includes the safe handling of food and requires vehicle fuel and facility utility energy consumption for compliance with food safety regulations to help in providing hunger relief.
Post Falls Food Bank
Meals on Wheels
Continue to service those seniors that need Meals on Wheels. The specific activities of this project will be to help purchase food, trays, heated bags, and snacks for our Meals on Wheels program.
Post Falls Senior Center
Emergency Shelters
Three emergency shelters for the homeless in Coeur d'Alene: 16-bed Men's Emergency Shelter, 12-bed Women and Children's Emergency Shelter, and a one bedroom house used as a family emergency shelter. Clients can stay up to 30 days, receive two free meals a day and receive the necessary empowerment services to help them stabilize.
St. Vincent de Paul of North Idaho
Work Ready Program
Work Ready is a specialized vocational training for at-risk youth to become productive and contributing members of our community through a five phase program focused on developing valuable skills within the agricultural and hospitality industries. At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to compete and be successful employees within these two industries.
Volunteers of America Crosswalk North Idaho
Truck Fuel
We’ve Got Stuff provides household items for people moving into transitional housing, people who have to set up new households to escape domestic violence and for returning veterans. The program serves 40 to 50 families a month, primarily through deliveries. United Way funding provides fuel for delivering goods to clients and picking-up large donations from donors.
We've Got Stuff
