The Catawba County United Way Youth Council announces the recipients of the 2009 Youth Allocation Grant. 

The Catawba County United Way Youth Council has allocated $5,750 to be distributed to five member agencies – Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club to help fund their life skills education  program; Aids Leadership Foothills Area Alliance (ALFA)  to help fund the costs associated with education and testing for HIV & Aids as it relates to the youth in our community; Exodus Homes, Young Women of Distinction to assist in the production of a community play “ A Child’s  Legacy” which would serve as a vehicle to bring awareness and education concerning the effects of dysfunctional families on the children in our community; Boy Scouts of America, Piedmont Council to aid in the start up of a Piedmont Area high School Model United National Conference and the YMCA Teen Center for funding of a local chapter of “To Write Love on Her Arms”, a program dedicated to young people who are struggling with depression, addictions, self –injury and suicide called “Hold On”

  The Catawba County United Youth Council participants are a group of students from within Catawba County who are individually selected by the principals at their schools.  They attended a training session several weeks prior to the member agencies presentations.  After this training session each of the council members then reviewed applications, took part in group discussions and used a rating system to determine which agencies would receive funding.  The agency selections were made solely by the Youth Council.

 For more information about Catawba County United Way or its Youth Council please contact Sylvia Long, Director of Community Impact at 828/327-6851 or slong@ccunitedway.com