EMERGENCY SERVICES
"Working to Help Area Residents in Their Time of Need"
Children's Services | Emergency | Energy | Housing | Self-Reliance
Emergency Assistance provides one-time funding to low-income residents who are experiencing extreme financial difficulties and may lose their home due to late rent or mortgage.
Additionally, assistance is available to pay for past due utility bills to avoid the cutting off of services such as electricity and water. Lastly, the program provides vouchers for food should families not have food in the home.
Carol Honeycutt, RADA Outreach Worker,
assists area residents.
During the 2002-2003 fiscal year, 1,283 individuals in 383 households avoided homelessness and hunger. Primary funding is provided by Federal Emergency Management Agency.
HIP
HIP (Homeless Intervention Program) is another program designed to prevent homelessness by providing one-time emergency financial assistance to households who are in danger of eviction or foreclosure on their homes. Funding sources include the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and United Way of Southwest VA.
RADA assists people in remaining in their
own homes. Committed to this cause are
Bud Phillips, state delegate, and David Gilmer,
RADA housing coordinator, who pose here
with Sherry York, RADA client.
NEW EYES FOR THE NEEDY
New Eyes for the Needy provides fee waivers to individuals whose medical insurance will not cover the cost of eye examinations. Through partnership with and funding provided by New Eyes for the Needy, Inc. based out of South Hills, New Jersey, vouchers for eyeglasses are made available to low-income people who are at 125% of poverty or below. Eye examination vouchers are also available through the United Way of Southwest Virginia Two local optometrists support the program by accepting the fee waivers for examinations.