Parent Resources
Healthy Start/Healthy Families
provides professional home visitor
services to first-time parents of Anderson County whose babies are
identified as being at risk for abuse or neglect. It is not an intervention program;
it is a prevention program. Its purpose is to work with high risk parents to help
them develop good parenting skills, thus drastically reducing child abuse and neglect.
The ARC of Anderson County,
formerly the Association for Retarded Citizens,
is a United Way agency and has been active for more than 50 years.
The ARC serves local children and adults who have intellectual and developmental
disabilities. The chapter also helps to meet the needs of their families.
ARC is an advocacy organization for all persons of all ages with intellectual
and developmental disabilities. Our goal is to be there when there is a need,
to see that these special citizens share in the rights that we all enjoy and to
make sure they are given the opportunity to belong and contribute to society.
Aid to Distressed Families of Appalachian Counties (ADFAC)
is an independent non-profit agency concerned with the social welfare,
including educational, health, housing, and handicapped needs of residents
of Anderson County. ADFAC has made a commitment to distribute limited emergency
aid funds in the most responsible, effective, and caring way possible and to assist
low, and very low, income homeowners in repairing their homes or building new houses.
Anderson County Health Council
serves our community by offering a variety of health programs and partnerships.
In addition to our 5 major programs, we serve our residents by providing critical
health care services and by collaborating with other agencies to develop important
initiatives.
Willow Brook Family Resource Center's
mission is to assist "at risk" children and their families in the
prevention wefand eradication of problems that interfere with their ability
to become fully functioning and independent members of their community.
The Legal Aid Society
gives free civil legal aid to people who have nowhere else to turn.
Its Oak Ridge office serves people in Anderson and seven surrounding counties.
Participants will not be limited to people from Anderson County.
(865) 483-8454 or 800-483-8457
United Way
is a volunteer system designed to identify and anticipate community needs,
develop plans to address these needs, and raise the financial resources necessary
to do so. Volunteers allocate the funds raised each year to local member agencies.
These agencies provide a full range of health and human services representing the
needs and concerns of all age and economic groups. United Way is our community's
largest voluntary organization. It is run by a local volunteer board, which sets
policies and direction for paid staff. The staff guides and coordinates all
volunteer activities, such as allocations, the fundraising campaign, planning
and communications.