Everyone deserves to live their healthiest life. At United Way of Southeast Mississippi, we help people overcome barriers to good health by improving access to nutritious food and quality health education and services.
Our goals:
- Increase access to healthcare and benefits starting from birth
- Improve access to healthy, nutritious food and physical activity
- Provide trauma-informed care to victims of violence and addiction
Our HEALTHY COMMUNITY initiative:
United Way of Southeast Mississippi partners with SingleCare to provide community members with access to affordable prescription medications, ensuring greater health and financial stability.
SingleCare negotiates fair drug prices directly with major pharmacies like CVS, Walmart, and Walgreens. We pass the savings onto our members, free of charge.
The SingleCare prescription savings card:
- Always free to use by everyone—just show it to the pharmacist
- No registration or eligibility requirements. Use it right away!
- Save up to 80% on 10,000+ prescription medications
- Accepted at major pharmacy chains nationwide
- Sign up on SingleCare.com for additional member savings (earn $1 per eligible script!!)
- Works whether you’re insured or underinsured
- Unlimited uses
How do I get a card?
- Download and print a card on SingleCare.com
- Text “family” to 700700 to receive a card on your phone (Message and data rates may apply. SingleCare Terms and Conditions)
- Download the free SingleCare mobile app from the App Store or Google Play Store.
Our HEALTHY COMMUNITY partners:
The Arc (Association for Rights of Citizens with Developmental Disabilities)
The Arc provides many services to individuals with mental and developmental disabilities and their families.
This organization offers temporary shelter, counseling and a variety of other services to victims of domestic violence, along with prevention programs to the community.
Edwards Street Fellowship Health Clinic
The Fellowship Health Clinic at Edwards Street Fellowship Center is providing free health, dental and pharmaceutical care for the uninsured and underinsured of Forrest and Lamar counties.
Hope Community Collective provides Marion County residents with adult counseling and educational classes that include life skills, anger management, drug and alcohol recovery, parenting education and G.E.D. preparatory classes. Additionally, HCC offers its Spanish division to empower, educate, and enrich the Spanish-speaking population across south Mississippi through community-building programs such as ESL classes, finance courses, mental-health & wellness programs, after-school tutoring, music education & instruction, translation services & more.
La misión de Comunidad Esperanza es empoderar, educar y enriquecer a la población hispana en el sur de Mississippi por medio de programas que ayudan a construir la comunidad. Entre ellos: programas para la salud mental, recursos alimenticios de emergencia, servicios de traducción y programas de bienestar familiar.
Kids Hub Child Advocacy Center
Advocacy services provide children with tools necessary to heal from their trauma and move forward through the criminal justice system feeling supported.
Shafer Center for Crisis Intervention
The Shafer Center provides support, counseling and referral for victims of sexual violence, homicide and families of suicide victims.