LIVE UNITED ®
The United Way of Isabella County exists to address community needs by supporting agencies that support:
* Basic Needs
* Education
* Economic Self Sufficiency
Interesting statistics on families in the 2010 Adopt A Family program:
* 143 families are enrolled, including 595 individuals (342 youth)
* 67.1% have unemployed or underemployed adults
* 37.1% are lead by a single parent
* 15.4% of the parents are students in college or a GED program
* 7.7% report being domestic violence survivors
* 100% of those willing to help a family can still do so through this program
Volunteer of the week
This week’s Volunteer of the Week honor goes out to Yolanda Forney.
Yolanda is a certified Chaplain and has spent the last four years offering
spiritual and emotional support to many people in our community. She
councils and offers support to patients and families that are suffering from illness at Central Michigan Community Hospital. At the Isabella County jail Yolanda offers ministry services and counseling to female inmates. She is also very passionate about the twelve step faith based program she leads each
week. Celebrate Recovery is the program and the purpose of Celebrate
Recovery is to form a fellowship of people committed to being in a safe place where people can be honest about real problems.
Yolanda and her husband lead the weekly group meetings as well as offering mentoring for people in the program. The weekly meetings are held at Potter’s House Church in Mt. Pleasant every Tuesday night. The program offers a great support system for anyone who is dealing with an addiction. Through this program many people have become free from their addictive, compulsive, and dysfunctional behaviors. Yolanda takes great pride in this program as it has been successful in changing the lives of many people.
Yolanda has said that her faith is what led her to the volunteer work that she is doing now. She feels it is important to help others and offers her support and guidance to those that are in need.
Yolanda Forney, we thank you for your dedication to our community. Congratulations on being Volunteer of the Week!> read more
