Family service rsvp has served champaign, piatt & douglas counties since 1972

An estimated 600 unduplicated volunteers will serve in this grant period. They will deliver groceries to chronically hungry low-income seniors; provide emergency food to individuals and families at pantries and soup kitchens; provide transportation to medical appointments and home delivered meals for older adults and/or the disabled; deliver library books, provide food, etc to the homebound and frail elderly, provide adult literacy services, tutor in K-12, provide tax-aide services to seniors and the economically disadvantaged, serve veterans and military families and they will work in hospitals, libraries, museums and other non-profit agency offices. Volunteers will serve a network of 100+ stations such as food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries, meals on wheels, faith in action, aarp tax-aide, adult literacy programs, local schools and social service agencies. There will be 185 volunteers serve in our primary focus area, healthy futures. At the end of the 12-month performance period, chronically hungry seniors and economically disadvantaged families will report increased food security; the frail elderly and disabled individuals will continue to live at home and will report increased social ties/perceived social support; low-income tax payers will have increased their knowledge of tax credits and tax law; grade school children will demonstrate gains in school measurements; students will have improved their academic performance, veterans and military families will have received transportation, access to services, comfort and other services; adult learners & ESL learners will have received job skill development services and english skills to increase their employability. Libraries, hospitals, museums, social service agencies and other non-profits will be better able to serve their clients with the assistance of rsvp volunteers. Our federal funding is 52% of our funding while nonfederal is 48%.