Ensuring Health Safety and Stability
Our Goals:
- Basic needs (food, clothing, shelter, and transportation) are met for all residents.
- Residents are able to live, work, and play in a safety-focused environment.
- Residents are made aware of available healthcare-related resources and encouraged to use these resources to improve their individual and family health outcomes.
- Residents are prepared to handle personal emergency situations that involve an individual or family.
- Children and adults are encouraged to achieve healthy (nutrition, exercise, and smoking cessation) lifestyles.
AveNew is a collaborative effort to provide drug education,
prevention and connection.
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2025 Member Agency Programs
ENSURING HEALTH, SAFETY AND STABILITY
American Red Cross of Northeast Tennessee – Disaster Cycle Services ($105,000) serves people affected by disaster and prepares communities for disaster, response, and recovery, to create a more resilient community.
Appalachian Miles for Smiles – Appalachian Miles for Smiles Mobile Dental Unit ($24,000) provides quality dental care and eye examinations at no cost to uninsured residents of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia.
CASA for Kids, Inc. – Core Program ($47,000) supports and promotes professionally-trained community volunteers to advocate for abused and neglected children’s best interest within the Juvenile Court and ensure safe and stable placements.
Children’s Advocacy Center of Sullivan County – Counseling Program ($38,000) provides trauma-focused treatment to the child victims of sexual abuse and severe physical abuse in a child-friendly environment that focuses on the well-being of the child.
Children’s Advocacy Center of Sullivan County – Victim Services Program ($10,000) provides counseling and assistance to the non-offending parents or caregivers of victims from initial contact and throughout the investigation and intervention process.
Friends in Need – Dental Services Program ($58,200) provides affordable dental care to the uninsured and underinsured across Northeast Tennessee.
Friends in Need – Medical Services Program ($22,000) provides affordable medical care to the uninsured or underinsured across Northeast Tennessee.
Holston Counseling (Frontier Health) – Outpatient Services ($50,400) offers a wide variety of services, including various therapy types, case management, and medication management to those with mental, addiction, or co-occurring conditions.
Legal Aid of East Tennessee – Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Program ($16,500) provides family safety and stability for victims of domestic violence through court orders granting a divorce or order of protection.
Link House (Frontier Health) – Core Program ($41,900) provides food, shelter, crisis intervention, diagnostic and evaluation services as well as counseling to adolescent females who are neglected, abused, runaway, unruly, or delinquent.
Mountain Region Speech & Hearing Center – Speech-Language Scholarship Program ($57,000) provides infants, children, and adults with quality and cost-effective evaluation, treatment, and education for speech, language, and swallowing disorders regardless of their ability to pay.
SAFE House (Frontier Health) – Domestic Violence Shelter Program ($61,350) provides a safe, confidential, and temporary shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. 24/7 services may include crisis services, transportation, advocacy, follow-up, and education.
SUPPORTING AGING WITH CHOICES
First Tennessee Human Resource Agency – Personal Support Services Program ($19,100) promotes self-sufficiency and prevents institutional placement by providing cost-effective in-home care for individuals in threat of harm due to abuse or neglect.
Meals on Wheels of Kingsport – Core Program ($110,000) provides hot, nutritious meals and human contact to isolated, incapacitated senior citizens and, if appropriate, other home-bound, disabled persons to facilitate safe, independent living.