OUR COMMUNITY IMPACT PARTNERS
Through Community Impact Grants, United Way of the Brazos Valley is investing $175,000 each year from 2025-2027 to 18 nonprofit support programs demonstrating measurable impacts in the areas of health, education and financial stability.
THROUGH UNITED WAY…
Our 2025-2027 Community Impact Partners receive funding for:
Men’s Transitional Living Campus
Adult and Teen Challenge of Texas provides yearlong, residential, faith-based recovery programs for men in the Brazos Valley area who are struggling with a life controlling issue, typically substance abuse. While enrolled, residents are provided with re-entry services, helping them become employed in the community.
Great Futures Programs
The Great Futures Programs at Boys & Girls Clubs of the Brazos Valley provide youth from low-income families with healthy meals, cooking classes, academic tutoring and athletic development in a team setting. The programs aim to decrease mental health problems and food insecurity by encouraging well-rounded lifestyles.
Independent Living & Life Skills Training Services
The Brazos Valley Center for Independent Living (BVCIL) helps people live independently. Services for individuals with significant disabilities include: independent living skills training, peer support, individual and systems advocacy, transition services, job placement and support, health and fitness programs, social/recreational activities and accessible transportation.
Substance Abuse Screening Program
The Brazos Valley Council of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (BVCASA)’s fighting for health in the Brazos Valley by offering substance abuse screening, brief intervention and referral services in the community. These services are provided free of charge to low-income adults and youth by a licensed counselor and helps connect them to needed treatment.
Wellness & Rehabilitation Program
The Brazos Valley Rehabilitation Center’s mission is to improve the lives of families in our community by providing medical therapy services to all needing assistance in the areas of physical, occupational and speech therapy services.
Financial Stability & Education Program
Catholic Charities of Central Texas’ Financial Stability program provides housing and utility assistance, financial education, case management and wraparound services to build the well-being of Brazos Valley families.
Job Training Program
Faith Mission & Help Center’s Job Training Program collaborates with numerous organizations to create pathways for higher education and job skills training, fostering opportunities for personal and professional growth.
Housing Services for Low-Income Families
Family Promise of Bryan-College Station’s Guest Families Resources Support Program provides shelter, meals and support services as well as a safe environment where children can remain with their parents while families work toward achieving sustainable independence.
Resource Center
The Grimes Health Resource Center’s goal is to impact the individual/family in a way that will set them up for financial success. Helping people meet their basic needs in a time of uncertainty ensures they can maintain self-sufficiency and allows us to help when clients have nowhere else to turn in a time of need.
Preventative Health Care and Chronic Disease Management for the Uninsured
Health for All works to provide and expand access to free, high quality and comprehensive, primary and preventive health care for low income, medically uninsured individuals in the Brazos Valley.
Transportation Services
OnRamp partners with local charitable, government and religious organizations to bless Brazos Valley individuals and families in need with the gift of reliable transportation to help them on the road to self-sufficiency.
Utility Assistance
The Son-Shine Outreach Center helps families who find themselves unable to pay for reasons out of their control such as job loss, illness and natural disaster, pay their utility bills. We hope that with our help they will transition out of crisis and get back on solid financial footing.
Jack Threadgil Vocational Training Program
Save Our Streets Ministries’ Jack Threadgill Vocational Training Program is a 12-week program that teaches men and women employable trade skills (such as plumbing, welding and commercial driver’s license training) while coaching them individually on how to make wise decisions in life as they lead their families and manage finances.
Health Education to Pregnant Mothers
The Prenatal Clinic provides health education to expecting mothers. The provision of health education during pregnancy has been shown to be a critical aspect of prenatal care. This approach has been associated with a broad variety of maternal and child outcomes including reduced prematurity and low birth weight and increased rates of initiation and continuation of breastfeeding.
Basic Needs Assistance
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul Bryan – College Station helps families meet their needs to prevent homelessness and promote financial stability. They help people with services such as rent and utility assistance, a food pantry and much more.
Rapid Re-Housing & Financial Education
Twin City Mission Rapid Re-Housing (RRH) program provides rental assistance and supportive services to individuals and families who are experiencing homelessness. The RRH program provides rental assistance for up to six months, as well as, food boxes, assistance with job searches, budgeting, eye/dental exams and transportation. RRH is intended to be short-term assistance to help those in need regain self-sufficiency.
Survivor Advocacy Program
Unbound Now’s Survivor Advocacy Program seeks to meet the immediate and long-term needs of survivors of human trafficking. Program advocates run a 24/7 Crisis Referral call line in addition to providing services for counseling, mobility, education, employment, rent and utility assistance and family relationships.