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The Guelph Neighbourhood Support Coalition is a network of Neighbourhood Groups, sponsoring agencies and program partners. Each neighbourhood group operates in at the grassroots level to meet the needs of children, youth and families in their community. Through the Coalition, the Neighbourhood Groups bring together their collective resources to share information, provide support, distribute available funding resources and advocate for community issues. We also celebrate the wonderful work happening in our neighbourhoods and the diversity of voices who live in them.

The Amputee Coalition of Canada (ACC) was established in 2008 as a nonprofit organization. Its goal is to improve and advance the quality of life of persons with limb loss. The Amputee Coalition of Canada was created to improve quality of life of persons with limb loss in their communities by providing education and opportunities to gain skills, lessons and coping techniques that increase confidence, connectedness, and sense of belonging. Through the ACC, persons with limb loss are educated on how to best engage in social and physical activities following amputation and how to incorporate these activities into their lives. The ACC relies on structured and validated programs, with the involvement of persons with amputation, to encourage a culture of support, networking, and active participation in life following limb loss.

ASD currently operates four Special Care Facilities licensed by the Texas Department of Health: The Ewing Center, Revlon Apartments, Hillcrest House, and Spencer Gardens. ASD serves an average of 175 men, women and children in 152 total bedrooms within 125 privately configured units. Seventy-six percent (76%) of the agency's resident population are racial or ethnic minorities, 24 percent were women. One hundred percent (100%) of the people served by ASD are significantly below the federal poverty line and are classified either as low- or very-low income. The agency has provided more than 326,000 person/nights of housing to more than 1,100 individuals and family members living with AIDS. Along with a home and a mutually supportive community environment, residents at each facility are provided with a range of services individually tailored to empower them to cope with the cyclical impact HIV/AIDS has on people who are living with a disease that often compromises their complete independence.

Coalition Against Cancer (CAC2) is a collaborative network of organizations and individuals who support and serve the childhood cancer community. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O.The mission of CAC2 is to foster and sustain greater levels of coordinated action, information exchange, learning, and broad-based collaboration through agreed-upon initiatives in four areas: research and treatment, family services, awareness building, and advocacy. CAC2 works to benefit the childhood cancer community - including both its membership and childhood cancer patients, survivors, and their families - through greater levels of coordinated action that leverage the unique strengths and expertise of its members, minimizing waste of precious resources in order to drive better outcomes for childhood cancer patients and their families.

To collaborate, to develop and implement suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention strategies and programs. We do this, in part, through legislative advocacy, statewide education, and collaboration.

The DBCC works to improve breast health in Delaware by increasing awareness, expanding access to screening and care, and supporting patients and survivors through outreach, education, patient navigation, peer mentoring, and financial assistance.

Reduce substance abuse in Lee County by raising awareness of prevention resources through collaboration, education and inspiration