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How We Serve |
| Program Overview |
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| Food Bank |
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| Financial Assistance |
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| Mobile Meals |
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| Caregiving Services |
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| Health Advocacy |
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| Success Stories |
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HOW WE SERVE
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Interfaith Community Services was
founded in 1985 as Northwest Interfaith
Center with three words as the vision -
Love, Cooperation and Service.
At
9:00 a.m. each weekday, all of the phone lines at ICS light up.
It′s
the daily rush of calls from Pima
County residents facing a
variety of problems including hunger and/or inadequate funding for housing or other
necessities.
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Everyday,
ICS helps many local individuals and families obtain the necessities that they
might otherwise be forced to go without.
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Twenty percent of residents in Pima County
are seniors (65 or older) and 25% of them need some help maintaining
independent living. ICS helps them with services such as Mobile Meals, caregiving transportation, and health advocacy home visits.
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Eighteen percent of Pima County
residents, and 98% of our recipients, fall below the federal poverty level.
Many of these are "working poor" families who lack health insurance and
do not qualify for public health care.
Often they live on the edge of homelessness.
For thousands of individuals each year, a modest amount of support
from the ICS Food Bank, Gifts of Love and Emergency Financial Assistance made
the difference in maintaining financial stability.
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