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Because 25% of these closed during COVID, UWDC advocates for this.
What is child care?
This annual census in late January is critical for HUD funding.
What is Point in Time Count?
Currently, there are only one of these for every 600 people in Denton County.
What is a mental health provider?
Surprisingly, given no military facility, there are over 42,000 of these in Denton County.
What are Veterans?
For 13 consecutive years, this has increased in our Denton County ISDs.
What are economically disadvantaged students?
Unregulated, they can charge astronomical percentage rates.
What are predatory lenders?
UWDC launched these to improve relationships between Denton County landlords and housing case managers.
What are Housing Navigators?
Texas ranks this out of 51 states for access to mental health care.
What is 50?
There are 102,000 of these earning below a survival threshold in Denton County.
What are ALICE Households?
Nearly 1 in 2 economically disadvantaged third graders are not doing this when leaving third grade.
What is reading at grade level?
Leadership Giving begins at this annual donation amount.
What is $1,000?
This tool on the UWDC website provides an up-to-date snapshot of homelessness in Denton County.
What is the Data Dashboard?
This is the largest in-patient provider of mental health services in Denton County.
What is the County Jail?
UWDC launched this – our 3rd collective impact initiative – to provide every family the opportunity to increase earning potential, succeed, and thrive.
What is the Denton County Workforce Success Leadership Team?
This agency operates a pediatric clinic in a public school.
What is Pediplace?
These volunteers score grants, conduct site visits, and recommend partner agency funding to our board of directors.
What are Community Investment volunteers?
Unhoused is a term to describe this.
What is homelessness?
Denton County recently funded two of these positions designed by the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team to break down the complexity of accessing mental health services in Denton County.
What are mental health navigators?
The majority of ALICE households are Seniors over 65 and these.
What are single moms?
This agency launched a program to increase foster families because currently 7 out of 10 Denton County children are placed outside the County.
What is Cumberland Youth & Family Services?
This UWDC affinity group exists strives to inspire, educate, and motivate women to be positive change agents in our community?
What is Women United?
Rare, Brief and nonrecurring describes the mantra of this group.
What is the Denton County Homelessness Leadership Team?
This is UWDC’s role with the Denton County Behavioral Health Leadership Team (and the other two Leadership Teams).
What is backbone support?
This is UWDC's free tax prep program to help low to moderate income families.
What is VITA?
50% of all economically disadvantaged students are in these two districts.
What are Denton and Lewisville?