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United Way updates supervisors on eviction-reduction work, Community Assistance Network
Summary
United Way of the Virginia Peninsula CEO Sharvala West briefed supervisors on the nonprofit27s regional Community Assistance Network (CAN), eviction reduction pilot and youth employment initiatives, citing local ALICE (asset‑limited, income‑constrained, employed) data and recent assistance figures for James City County residents.
Sharvala West, president and CEO of United Way of the Virginia Peninsula, told the James City County Board of Supervisors on April 21 that the United Way27s Community Assistance Network (CAN) and eviction-reduction efforts are helping to stabilize households and keep people in their homes.
West said the United Way focuses on ALICE households (asset-limited, income-constrained, employed) and reported that 40.1 percent of Peninsula households fall at or below the ALICE threshold regionally and that 30.4 percent of households in James City County are at ALICE or below, according to the United Way27s data citation. She said the CAN centralized phone line and referral network now mobilizes roughly 150 partner…
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