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    We extend the following programs to qualifying low-income elderly and disabled.    

1.     The Food Distribution Center provides a monthly thirty pound box of food to approximately 225 families equaling about 475 people served, eliminating financial anxieties from dependencies on family or government assistance. 

2.     Caller Check-Up uses senior volunteers to make a daily call to those seniors in frail health for the purpose of checking on their well-being.  Currently we have four volunteers serving 23 clients.

3.      Patient Care Used Medical Equipment collects stores and distributes medical equipment, to provide no cost supplements with at-home freedom for our target populations.  To date we have distributed over one hundred medical items to those in need.

4.     Holiday Meals combines with “Need to Feed” Program to serve between 600-700 meals to all needy persons at Christmas.

5.     Homeless Housing Supply provides donated household items and furniture to target populations.  We have been instrumental in getting housing and furnishings for thirteen families.

6.      911 Cell Phone ERS works in cooperation with Monahans Police Department and Ward Memorial Hospital ER by providing personal registration information for clients issued the used cell phones creating peace of mind for clients and relatives.  We have distributed approximately 300 cell phones to those who qualify.

7.      Adopt a Senior provides a special holiday present from local citizens to persons in the Caller Check-Up Initiative. We provided presents to 23 clients.

8.     Information & Assistance matches clients with over fifty agencies to meet the need and then helps to fill out the tedious paper work or makes phone calls for the individuals. These programs foster self-reliance because they promote healthy attitudes, decrease anxiety and depression from feelings of being alone, and they address the immediate needs of our clients.

9.   Ward County Youth Activities Center  YAC is an after school facility located at 203 S. Alice.  It provides physical activities for grades 1 - 12, tutoring students in math, science and basics, sewing classes for elementary school girls, weight lifting for 7th - 12th grade boys, games, snacks, and personal growth opportunities through Tiger Woods Foundation/4-H/Boy Scouts by retired teachers and with peer assistance.  Summer programs will also be offered including swimming, hiking, sports, camping, and relationship mentoring.

10.    Shack Attack works with Monahans Radio Shack by depicting items for visually impaired and hearing impaired. We have distributed many inexpensive, light weight hearing devices for those persons that can't afford hearing aids. These are the size of a MP3 player.

11.    Angel Tree cooperates with Alco discount store, Family Dollar, Complex Community FCU and Monahans, Wickett, Pyote and Grandfalls ISD to involve the community in providing Christmas gifts to impoverished children.  All children are referred from the school counselors.  2005 provided 300+ presents to 120 impoverished children in Ward County. 

12.    Financial Literacy Initiative is a Dave Ramsey affiliate course designed to target those healthy persons on government assistance with financial literacy.

13.    Newborns In Need uses Seniors that crochet or knit receiving blankets, clothes, booties and cap for those newborns that have nothing to wear home from the hospital or burial clothes for those indigent babies that need decent burial attire.

14.   Special Needs Program for Disabled provides internet service and/or computers to help connect the disabled to daily activities of the world.

15.    CORE (Connect Our Rural Elderly) Program helps to provide transportation for banking, shopping, paying bills and medical appointments.

16.    Greater Works Community Garden educates clients and provides help and equipment to grow fresh vegetables and fruit.

17.    Prayer Blankets -- lap covers for elderly and hospice clients.  Area churches and member churches of the Ward County Ministerial Association have prayed over these lap covers.  These are all handmade by individuals from the community and are in every way an act and expression of love, prayer and healing.

 18.  Mission Room  provides free clothes for the entire family, shoes, linens, audio/video movies, house hold items, and much more. The Mission Room is open each Tuesday from 9:00am to noon, Saturday from 8:00am until 11:00am and allows shoppers to come once a month.  Donations are always welcome.