STRONG FAMILIES
Monroe County parents will have adequate skills and resources to protect, nurture, educate & support their children
in a family-centered, family friendly atmosphere.
  • unmet needs of 100 Monroe County families a year will be identified and met.
  • Service Delivery System Committee will coordinate with other agencies, individuals, civic groups to aid needy families
  • Work on Service Array Capacity process to assure that "Families have an enhanced capacity to provide for their children's needs"
  • Educate the public about families with children with no cash income living in Monroe County, in West Virginia and the in the United States

 

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The Service Delivery System Committee provides oversight of the FCOC flex fund. The FCOC flex fund is used to identify unmet needs of families in Monroe County and to coordinate a maximum of $200 per year per family to pay for a service identified as an unmet need for the family.  In 2008, this fund helped 106 families of which 30 had no cash income and18 of the 30 families with no cash income had children.  There is no safety net for low income and no income families in the current recession.  The FRN works to help families by coordinating free clothing distributions, SHARE food co-op, free semi-truck loads, tax-aide and Christmas Giving.

Service Delivery System Team:  Dorothy Larew, Dorothy E. Hunter, Shirley Hall, Jeana Comer Carr 

 

Resource Directory

Christmas Giving 2008 served 344 children and provided 250 boxes of food and personal care items to 250 families.

 

2007-2008 Community Plan

 SHARE Volunteers:  Willis Hall, Shirley Hall, Doris McCurdy, Justine Nall, Debbie Jorgensen

 

Healthy People

Free Clothing Distributions Volunteers: Dorothy Larew, Willis Hall, Wanda Turner, Gale Cole

Ready for School

Free Semi-truck load:  serves 30 plus agencies and churches and 100 plus public members 

 

Strong Families

 

Safe Communities

 

 

 

 

 

FCOC (Family Centered Oversight Collaborative) is a flex fund of last resort to help Monroe County families.  The fund was started by the Monroe County Family Resource Network in 1999.  The FRN has received over $100,000.00 from multiple sources since 1999.  Some grant funders include United Way of the Greenbrier Valley and Sister's of St. Joseph.  No state or federal funds have been used to fund FCOC.  Local donations include Lindside Christian Church, Greenville Ruritan dinners, yard sales and individual community members.  

Christmas Giving has become a county wide partnership involving the school system, Ministerial Outreach, The Greenbrier Hotel, Calvary Baptist Church, Union and Greenville Presbyterian Church, and individual community members.

The SHARE Food Co-op is sponsored by the Greenville Ruritan Club once a month and is coordinated by community volunteers.  

Free Clothing/coat distributions partners are The Old Greenville School and local volunteers.  

VITA/AARP tax aide partners are the Monroe Public Library in Union and volunteers.  

Call (304) 772-5960 for more information or to be a part of any of these activities.