United Way Support Programs:
2-1-1 TAMPA BAY CARES, INC. - HERNANDO'S RESOURCE CENTER
Connects community members to local resources through the use of a land line, cell phone, and computer. All services, details, and contact information on the non-profits and organizations listed below can be found on 211 Hernando.
Provides individually tailored community and facility based services for individuals with developmental disabilities.
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Community Support Program
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Residential Support Program
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HERNANDO COUNTY
Boys & Girls Club programs help develop young people's capacity to engage in positive behaviors that nurture their own well-being, set personal goals and live successfully as self-sufficient adults.
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School Year Scholarships
Provides social services to disadvantaged families: including adoption, crisis pregnancy support, counseling, elderly care, refugee and immigration.
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Foundations of Life Pregnancy Program
Provides services, including shelter, counseling, & support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
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Domestic & Sexual Violence Victim Services
DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES OF FLORIDA
Provides equal access for Deaf, hard of hearing and later deafened persons, including education, specialized equipment, advocacy, interpreters and other services.
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Communication Access Assistance (CAA)
DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION LIBRARY (DPIL)
EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF PASCO AND HERNANDO COUNTIES, INC.
Dedicated to creating a supportive network to build the necessary foundation for our children to be successful in school and in life.
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Support for School Readiness
Offers a residential shelter program for both men and women with work therapy and life skill programs designed to self-sufficiency. Families receive emergency shelter assistance. Provides Food Barn.
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Food Barn
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Emergency & Transition Shelter Program
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED AND BLIND
To provide persons who are visually impaired and blind skills needed to achieve maximum independence.
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Adaptive Living Skills & Training
MID-FLORIDA COMMUNITY SERVICES
Dedicated to reducing and serving trauma to victims of child abuse and their families.
MID-FLORIDA HOMELESS COALITION, INC.
Promotes partnerships that will reduce and prevent homelessness in Hernando, Citrus and Sumter Counties.
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Mid Florida Information Network (MFIN)
NAMI HERNANDO (National Alliance on Mental Illness)
Provides support, education and advocacy for the mentally ill and their families.
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Education Programs
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Support Services
PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE IN HERNANDO COUNTY
An interfaith community organization organized for the purpose of providing food, clothing, and other basic necessities to impoverished people in Hernando County, Florida.
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Weekend Blessings Program
A faith based organization focused on ending poverty through systemic change.
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Food Pantry
Provides social services to children and families. Services include temporary residential shelter, nonresidential counseling, subsidized childcare, in school early intervention and family preservation.
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New Beginnings Youth Shelter
In Collaboration With:
Their mission is to reach out to families impacted by disability through recreation, education, support, and training (R.E.S.T.).
Provides relief to victims of disaster and helps community members prepare and respond to emergencies
Offers both inpatient and community-based programs, along with a full range of comprehensive mental health and substance abuse services tailored to meet the individual needs of adults, adolescents and children.
Focuses heavily on team building, leadership skills, and volunteerism. Provides programs for boys ages 6-20 such as aquatic safety, camping, education, leadership development and food drives.
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Community Service
Pasco Hernando Workforce Board enhances economic development efforts of our region by providing a well trained, high quality workforce which supports the success of local business and improves the quality of life.
CHIPP (Community Health Improvement Plan Partnership)
CHIPP works to improve health by supporting local activities that address priority areas identified in Hernando’s Community Health Improvement Plan
To improve the health and well-being of the under served and uninsured, to promote health literacy and to establish alliances that serve our community. To provide the best health care that we are able to provide for all, regardless of ability to pay.
DEAF & HARD OF HEARING SERVICES OF FLORIDA
Provides equal access for Deaf, hard of hearing and later deafened persons, including education, specialized equipment, advocacy, interpreters and other services.
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Florida Telecommunication Relay (FTRI) Outreach Distribution
DEVEREUX ADVANCED BEHAVIORAL HEALTH
Deveruex changes lives and nurtures human potential. They inspire hope, ensure well-being, and promote meaningful choices.
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Parenting Journey Program
FIFTH CIRCUIT PUBLIC GUARDIAN CORPORATION
A comprehensive care resource that provides care and/or assistance to those in crisis.
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Public Guardian Program
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IN HERNANDO COUNTY
The Florida Department of Health works to protect, promote & improve the health of all people in Hernando through integrated state, county, & community efforts. The Health Department provides health related services, programs, and focused initiatives that enhance Hernando's health in the household as well as at a county level.
FLORIDA MASTER MONEY MENTORS PROGRAM
Through the University of Florida and Hernando County Extension Office, the Florida Master Money Mentor (FMMM) program provides financial education to rural and low-to-moderate-income Florida families with the emphasis being on one-on-one peer education.
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Mentoring Program
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HERNANDO COUNTY
Habitat works in partnership with God’s people to improve our community building or renovating homes to provide simple, decent, affordable houses for low-income families.
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Home Build
A not-for-profit community-based healthcare organization providing innovative, skilled medical care to patients with life-limiting illness and compassionate support to their family members.
Provides evidence based education, services and community resources for those primarily facing pregnancy and relationship issues in a respectful and compassionate way.
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Epiphany - A project of A New Generation
A multicultural community benefiting single mothers and their children, while teaching a self-reliant and sustainable lifestyle, and becoming a launching point for positive action in the pay-it-forward spirit of giving back to the world.
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Future Life Improvement Plan (FLIP)
PACE CENTER FOR GIRLS HERNANDO
A middle and high school for girls who are struggling but want to make positive changes in their lives.
Premier is a "medical home" based out of Hernando's Health Departments in both Spring Hill & Brooksville. Their services include behavioral health, dental, family medicine, pediatrics, women's health, and community services which include ACCESS, diabetes self-management support, medication assistance, outreach and enrollment assistance, patient care coordination, smoking cessation, and other wellness programs.
STUDENTS AND FAMILIES IN TRANSITION
Operating under the McKinney-Vento act by providing services for registering homeless or unaccompanied youth in schools.
SUNCOAST TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER
Offers free tutoring to adults to help them become academically and economically self-sufficient. GED, English, family literacy, work literacy, reading, math, and language skills.
Provides assistance to individuals with Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities. Programs include day care, therapy, employment, respite and family support.
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Hernando Early Intervention
Dedicated to improving the quality of human life and to helping all people realize their fullest potential through spirit, mind and body.
VINCENT ACADEMY ADVENTURE COAST
Recovery through work programs for those suffering from mental illness and looking for hope and guidance.