Hello Friends,

Please join me in supporting UCC, a 110 year old agency that truly helps families and children in need throughout Fort Worth.

United Community Centers currently provides three critical literacy programs year round to students who attend low-performing schools in FWISD:

Success by Six: a foundational program for emerging readers in Pre-K and Kindergarten students. Focuses on getting children ready to learn when they enter school because they have established the foundational knowledge, skills, and behaviors needed to fully participate in the kindergarten curriculum with their teacher.

Leveled Literacy Intervention: an intensive literacy intervention program to advance the reading levels of high-risk primary grade students significantly below grade level. Rapid increases in reading levels are achieved through powerful, short-term intervention which provides daily, intensive, small-group instruction.

Education Literacy Program: a literacy program for ages 4-13 which supplements FWISD instruction. Uses research-based curriculums Scholastic and Literacy by Design. Emphasizes small group guided reading, daily messages and read aloud, learning centers, word accuracy, fluency, and comprehension. In addition to these programs, UCC also facilitates community outreach at its three neighborhood centers through the Client Assistance and Advocacy program. Through this program our centers provide approximately 27,000 pounds of food to an average of 1,200 clients per month. This program facilitates outreach activities by collaborating with several agencies to enrich communities by bringing needed resources to low-income neighborhoods such as: referrals, emergency groceries and clothing, holiday meals, free tax preparation for low-income families, community resource fairs, and distribution of free school supplies and uniforms.

UCC also holds a monthly Mobile Food Pantry at its Wesley Center, which serves an additional 15,000 pounds of food to families in need on the fourth Saturday of the month.