Waypoint Helps Change Lives
Fiscal Year 2011
OUR PROGRAMS
Madge Phillips Center Shelter - Serving homeless women and children with overnight shelter, basic needs, support and information.
Daytime Resource Program – Serving individuals who are homeless or living in poverty with access to food, toiletries, laundry services, guidance and support.
Homeless Prevention Services – Serving individuals who are homeless, nearly-homeless or victims of violence with support to locate and access housing.
Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Intervention Programs – Serving individuals who are survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and their family members with advocacy, 24/7 crisis and support line, emergency safety, counseling, support groups and information.
Prevention Education Services – Serving the community with educational outreach focusing on the dynamics of domestic violence, sexual assault, homelessness, and poverty.
Child Care Services – Serving children age six weeks to twelve years from all socio-economic levels with quality, licensed child care. Waypoint offers financial assistance to qualifying families who could not afford child care services. Programs include:
- Uptown Kids Child Development Center
- Kirkwood Kids Child Development Center
- Waypoint Kids, Inc. - a subsidiary of Waypoint providing child care for Transamerica employees at RiverRdige Kids and ParkRidge Kids Child Development Centers
- School Age Kids – offering ten before and after school locations throughout Cedar Rapids and College Community School Districts
- Summer Adventure Day Camp – serving children who have completed Kindergarten through fifth grade with full-time summer care.
OUR IMPACT
In fiscal year 2011, Waypoint:
- Served 1,722 new victims of violence with counseling, advocacy and support
- Sheltered 228 women, 2 men, and 204 children who were homeless
- Provided basic needs such as food, toiletries and support to 3,153 individuals in need
- Facilitated support groups for 407 survivors of domestic or sexual violence
- Served 19,092 meals to homeless women and children
- Answered the crisis and support line 3,399 times
- Helped prevent homelessness for 743 individuals
- Gave 162 presentations to 2,993 participants about violence prevention
- Served an average of 614 children with quality child care each day
- Provided financial assistance to 129 children so they could receive quality child care while their parents worked or went to school.
FACTS
- One in six Iowans are living in poverty.
- 5,520 individuals were homeless in Linn County last year. 4,591 of them were women and children.
- The average age of a homeless person in Linn County is nine.
- One in four women will be victims of domestic violence in their lifetime.
- One in three women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime.
- One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually assaulted by the age of 18.