Collaborator, Spring 2002
FRC Campus Use Skyrockets!

Last year in celebrating our tenth anniversary, we developed a graph showing increases in use of the FRC campus.  The trend line, at times at a 45-degree angle, displayed striking growth. Data for year 2001 have just been compiled, and information from FRC agencies shows a continuing trend toward increasing use.

Campus wide, agencies saw 17% more clients than in 2000, an increase of more than 5,000 individuals served. Some of the largest agencies meeting the primary needs of the poor saw increases of 30%. Hopelink, for example, which provides emergency food, shelter  “and hope”  was one such agency, seeing more than a 2,000-person leap in clients served. Eastside Community Health Center’s medical and dental clinic clients jumped 22% at Family Resource Center.

Nearly 35,000 Eastsiders tapped services on the FRC campus last  year, a 94% increase over numbers gathered just six years earlier in 1995, when campus-wide data were first  compiled. (These numbers do not include the additional 10,000 customers served from throughout the State by one agency.)

Eastside agencies report an uphill battle in conveying to funders the needs of our area. The reputation of the Eastside as the home of financially secure suburbanites has been hard to shake. Those who work with the poor can speak first hand about the falseness of this image and also about how easily those in the comfortable middle class can fall into economic disaster.  In addition, many types of base-line services, such as counseling programs or disability support services (just to name two) are needed by those of all economic levels.

The Eastside experienced an estimated growth of 25% over the last ten years (the largest in the County). A larger population means more people with difficulties that may require community services. We are glad to play a key role in ensuring that much needed services are available to Eastsiders.

Pamela Mauk
Executive Director

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