“I want my baby’s life to be better than my own.”

The Corner Health Center, a United Way funded agency, helped Amanda Grove give birth to a healthy baby girl. The Corner helped Amanda leave her life on the streets and get pre-natal care, health insurance, a place to live and adequate nutrition for herself and her baby. Now she is working and making a home for herself and Ayla. With The Corner’s help, Amanda says, “I just want to keep up the good work. I want my child’s life to be better than mine.”

Thanks to your gift to United Way, The Corner Health Center helps about 100 young women like Amanda turn their lives around each year. Last year, the Corner saw young people and their babies in 7,290 patient visits.

“I’ve learned how to deal with peer pressure.”

Daniel Reardon became a member of The Corner Health Center Theatre Troupe, a United Way funded agency, to help his peers learn how to avoid high-risk behaviors.

I used to drink a lot,” said Daniel. “Now I don’t drink and I’m trying to quit smoking. My friends in The Troupe give me the encouragement I need to quit.”

Thanks to your gift to United Way, teens are learning how and why to avoid high-risk behaviors. Last year, The Corner’s Theatre Troupe reached 1,750 young people through 47 performances and 64 workshops designed to prevent substance abuse and sexually transmitted diseases.

Saving Lives Matters. When Robert Bowman, a shift supervisor at Georgia Pacific in Milan, heard his cousin Brent complain of persistent indigestion and chest and jaw pain, he knew Brent was having a heart attack. Years of first aid and CPR training by the American Red Cross, a United Way funded agency, told Robert what to do. Robert got his cousin Brent to the hospital quickly and saved his life.

Thanks to your gift to United Way, the Washtenaw County Chapter of The American Red Cross trains 70,000Washtenaw County residents and employees of 3,000 companies in life-saving skills each year.

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“She is my eyes. I am her legs.”

Hazel Miller’s eyes are dimmed by macular degeneration. Her daughter Joyce uses an electric wheelchair. They turned to Neighborhood Senior Services, a United Way funded agency, for help replacing the homemade wheelchair ramp that had been their link to mobility. NSS gave the Millers a safe new ramp and made several other repairs to make their Milan home safer and more livable.

Thanks to your gift to United Way,Neighborhood Senior Services has helped 879 senior citizens live safely in their own homes in the past year.

Impact: When you give to the United Way, you invest in what matters – preserving families’ independence.

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Impact: When you give to United Way, you invest in what matters—preserving a loving family.