The AFL-CIO Labor Engagement Partnership with United Way is focused on creating a safe environment where working families can live, work, and flourish right here at home.

Your full-time liaison and labor agencies link you with United Way of the Ozarks. Your liaison coordinates services for those suffering from natural disasters, financial hardship, illness, joblessness, mortgage foreclosure and other difficulties.

Serving 14 counties in southern Missouri: Barry, Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Hickory, Laclede, Lawrence, Polk, Stone, Taney, Texas, Webster, and Wright.

Your liaison also coordinates volunteers with projects that help young children enter school better prepared to succeed, families to build brighter, more financially stable futures and opportunities for communities and individuals to improve health and receive effective health care that improves quality of life.