Why Self-Sufficiency Matters?
Self-sufficiency requires having a job, quality child care, job skills, affordable housing, transportation, a safe environment, education, health care and the ability to attend to critical family issues. Crises are threats to self-sufficiency such as illness, divorce, joblessness, death in the family, natural disasters, or disability.
More than 30% of our employees are classified as "troubled employees" or those having short-term family crises, depression, substance abuse, other mental health issues or stress. Stress costs businesses over $200 billion annually.
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7 out of 10 of us will have lived or are living in poverty by the age of 85.
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Currently, one in five of our children live in poverty.
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4 out of 10 of us will develop or die from cancer.
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47% of industrial injuries are related to alcohol.
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70% of all adult drug users are employed.
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The divorce rate is 55%, leaving 37% of those children depressed.
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Our unemployment rate in Weld County is 5.6% which matches the percentage of home foreclosures.
United Way of Weld County proudly partners with various agencies on self-sufficiency issues
A Woman's Place, American Red Cross, Catholic Charities Northern, Consumer Credit Counseling, Eldergarden, Greeley Transitional House, Island Grover Regional Treatment Center, Meals on Wheels, Med-Aid, North Range Behavioral Health, RVNA, Hospice & Palliative Care, RSVP, Suicide Education and Support Services, Weld County Legal Services, Weld Food Bank, Connections for Independent Living, Envision, and the ARC of Weld County.
For more Information see the United Way 2-1-1 pages.
United Way of Weld County and its partnering agencies are doing what matters to assist community members through crisis and increase self-sufficiency:.
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Over 11,400 of our friends and neighbors received food, shelter, health care and medicine.
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Almost 2,000 of our elderly or special needs friends and neighbors were able to stay in their homes or get jobs.
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Nearly 1,600 of our friends and neighbors caught in the cycle of violence/substance-abuse were kept sage and/or give the skills to break the cycle.
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