This DoMore24, join us in supporting our Emergency Assistance Fund, which provides immediate relief for individuals and families across Delaware facing urgent financial crises. When unexpected hardships arise, timely support can mean the difference between stability and displacement. Together, we can ensure our neighbors have access to the resources they need to remain safe, secure, and supported.

Our Emergency Assistance Fund provides short-term financial support to individuals and families experiencing a crisis. These funds are designed to prevent homelessness, stabilize households, and reduce the long-term impact of financial emergencies. By responding quickly and compassionately, we help families maintain dignity and stability during some of their most challenging moments.

Impact of Your Support

Your contributions during DoMore24 will directly support:

In times of crisis, immediate support matters. Your generosity allows us to respond quickly, meet urgent needs, and provide a bridge to long-term stability. Together, we can strengthen our community and ensure that no family faces hardship alone.

Current Network Connect Programs include:

Community Well-being Ambassadors (CWA) Program

The Community Well-Being Ambassador Initiative is a community-driven, place-based prevention strategy to enhance the capacity of targeted neighborhoods in the Cities of Wilmington and Dover by promoting community well-being and resiliency among their residents across the lifespan. CWAs provide mental health, substance abuse, positive activities, youth support, and essential need solutions.

Key Facts about Community Well-being Ambassadors:
Since 2021, CWA Ambassadors have served over 7000 people in all three counties, connecting them to necessary health support and resources.
In 2025, CWAs distributed 4500 Narcan kits and trained 2350 community members in Narcan delivery.

Recovery Cafe Program

Recovery Café is a community-focused behavioral health program designed to support individuals in recovery through healing resources, engaging events, and a welcoming environment. Located in Dover, Delaware, this Recovery Café was launched in 2024 by Network Connect in partnership with Highmark Health Options and is a member of the national Recovery Café Network. This growing Network of Cafés supports thousands of people on their healing recovery journeys.

 

The Café offers a much-needed, accessible space where individuals can find community, guidance, and inspiration on their journey to sobriety.  Visitors to the cafe can visit up to three times and are then prompted to become members. Membership fosters a deeper connection to the Café and requires members to commit to three principles: pledging to remain drug and alcohol-free, actively contributing to the Café, and attending a weekly community circle.

Wilmington Street Team: Violence Prevention Program

In response to a landscape analysis by the Community-Based Public Safety Collective, the City of Wilmington established the Wilmington Community Public Safety Initiative. This initiative’s implementation team, The Wilmington Street Team, comprises three organizations: Network Connect, The City of Wilmington, and Center for Structural Equity. This group is tasked with monitoring and responding to community violence by providing intervention services and connections to resources.

Dual School Social Change/Environmental Hub

Dual School is a 12-week program that uses social impact projects to empower youth to become changemakers. In cohorts, students take part in design thinking workshops and mentorship opportunities to deeply understand a problem, create, and launch meaningful solutions. The latest Dual School programming includes the Healthcare Hub in partnership with ChristianaCare, focusing on healthcare career training, and a Design Thinking workshop with the YMCA.

Future Culture Creators (FCC) Workforce Development Program

The Future Culture Creator Employment Program provides youth aged 14-19, currently enrolled in school, with enriching, constructive year-round training, employment, and internships through subsidized placement with local creatives, community-based organizations, and non-profit organizations. Each FCC cohort completes 12 weeks of training on workforce development, trauma-informed care, design thinking, financial literacy, and community engagement training, followed by job placement. Students who finish the program are placed in employment opportunities with local employers, and an FFC staff member advises the student for an additional 90 days to ensure they maintain employment.

Key Facts about Future Culture Creators:
Network Connect has employed 107 FCC youth since the program's launch in 2019.

RACE to Wellness Campaign: Mental Health and ACES Awareness Program

The RACE (Reversing Affects of Adverse Childhood Experiences) programs implement the CDC’s six strategies to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences: strengthen economic support for families, promote social norms that protect against violence and adversity, ensure a strong start for children, teach skills, connect youth to caring adults and activities, and intervene to lessen immediate and long-term harms. There are 5 RACE Programs:
Network Connect provides RACE kits, mental wellness packages to youth and families across the state.
RACE Camp is a year-round program that connects elementary and middle school students to recreational, cultural, and creative activities to enhance learning.
RACE After-School Programming offers students an enriching and supportive environment after school hours.
RACE Days are events hosted around the state in partnership with community-based organizations. Events typically involve the distribution of RACE kits or other essential resources for the community like clothing or food.
Safe Passage launched the 2022 school year in partnership with the Community Educating Building. Safe Passage Ambassadors are responsible for monitoring and ensuring the safe passage of children to and from school. The Safe Passage Ambassador is also responsible for maintaining positive and strong community relationships. Safe Passage workers are employed by Network Connect in partnership with the school communities they serve.