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  • Immediate Help. For families and individuals in crisis, UCM provides food, financial aid, counseling, and referrals to other resources.
  • Education and Employment. Services such as job training and coaching, full-day early care and learning, ESL and citizenship classes, and parental education help people achieve stability and self-reliance.
  • Community Engagement. UCM’s neighborhood centers, with after-school programs and leadership training, engage youth and families in skill-building and broader social networks for success.

In Fiscal Year 2015, thanks to generous community support, UCM provided life-changing assistance to 10,200 individuals in 4,000 families in the Alexandria portion of Fairfax County, including almost 5,000 children.

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