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Each year, the Catawba County United Way has funded partners in its large RFP grant cycle, submit a mid-year report at the end of July.
These reports share current program achievements and challenges along with demographic information.
Below are highlights and the link to the full mid-year report.
Adult Life Programs
All participants are actively engaged in services and are enjoying newly formed group activities and community based outings. During January – June 2024 we conducted 53 service intakes, hosted 21 trial visits, and enrolled 14 people into service.
Patrick Beaver Learning Resource Center
From pretest to posttest, on a nationally normed individual reading inventory, our students recognized 33% more words accurately and answered 44% more comprehension questions correctly. Additionally, our students read an average of 27 words per minute faster.
Catawba Valley Healthcare
Patients who receive state funding for behavioral healthcare do not receive funding to help them with primary care. We are also able to use other grant funding and donations to assist patients with medications and/or lab work.
Children's Advocacy and Protection Center
This spring our team participated in the successful prosecution of a criminal case involving two adolescent sisters, both of whom were seen at the CAPC. The girls were sexually abused by their stepfather. The case was investigated by the Newton Police Department.
Council on Adolescents of Catawba County – Healthy Youth Education
Teen pregnancy numbers are still at an all-time low with only 99 teen pregnancies in 2022; a 67% decrease since 2009 when the Healthy Youth Act was passed. We have continued to serve two of the three public school systems and added the third system this past school year.
Council on Adolescents of Catawba County – Lunch Buddy Mentoring
The Program Coordinator successfully recruited and matched 84 students with 84 mentors across all three school systems. Several Catawba County 6th grade programs were also added.
For the second year in a row, the main challenge we faced was the high turnover with in-school contact staff, so we had to constantly re-introduce and promote the Lunch Buddy Program.
Exodus Homes – Supportive Housing
Exodus Homes continues to improve the program in the midst of our financial crisis. Our Day Program director is providing job coaching services for those employed in the community and we continue to evolve the content of the Day Program to make it more effective in stabilizing our new residents.
Exodus Homes – Medically Assisted Treatment
We are now battling a new opioid like substance in our program called Kratom. Kratom is available all over our community in vape shops and convenience stores. Kratom is considered "legal heroin" and even though it is legal, our residents are not allowed to buy it or use it.
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