UPI works to combat the causes and reduce the effects of poverty in Mercer County by: Promoting self-sufficiency, removing barriers, maximizing participation of our clients in the development and implementation of our programs, testing new approaches to solving basic causes of poverty, supporting self-help groups that promote self-sufficiency, working to better organize services related to the needs of the poor and broadening the resource base of programs directed to the elimination of poverty.
Services include: Emergency Food Assistance, emergency utility assistance, homelessness prevention services, programs to assist individuals in recovery and information/referral to other service providers.