God's Helping Hand
Most men, and women have no where to go to, but to the streets, and back to their old ways, but God's Helping hand has a solution for the house that are boarded up that our re-enty men, and women. That we receive funding from various grants, and some guidance from a gentleman who will be willing with pay to help train our clients to continue rehabing old houses for others to have a positive environment, and to get paid as they train, and we will inturn find out their other interests, goals, dreams, and in turn help them achieve those goals with the help of our grants that coming up in June. We will be needing four boarded up houss to work with, and in the mean time we will have their sleeping quarters, and kitchen, and water, electric, and on and available, but we will finish the house in which they live, and move on to the next houe. We will have on staff, three indivdauls that wiil take turns being in the house to keep a strick, and structure environment to live as successful individuls. One must learn how to discipline one's self when he returns to society. God's Helping Hand will be their to conduct our services in an orderly fashion, because all thing must be done in order. They will also learn how to respect other, and their opinons, and how our action are an important part in being responsible, and our actions have a lot to do with our outcome of our lives. Our client will learn how to distinguish between positive, and negative thoughts, and how to deal with peer pleasure, how to conduct oneself when confronted by adversity. Postive re-enforcement will be taught daily, and other issue will be acessed when one enter God's Helping Hand facilities. There will be rules, and by laws that all have to abid in to continue with this program, called Prepare for the Future!
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Mentoring
- Substance Abuse
- Goaling
- Inititative/program name:
- Prepare for the Future
- Year Established:
- March/2010
- Lead agency/organization name:
- United Way-member
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Not under community corrections supervision
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Victims
- Gang members
- Elderly
- woman, children, teens, homeless, disabled
God's Helping Hand
Contact:
Suzett MoffittFounder
God's Helping Hand
Phone: 317-605-6904
3623 Graceland
Indianapolis, Indiana 46208
suzettmoffitt@yahoo.com
www.godshelpinghand.org
God's Helping Hand
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Children and Families
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Mentoring
- Substance Abuse
- Goaling
- Inititative/program name:
- Prepare for the Future
- Lead agency/organization name:
- United Way-member
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Federal Funding WE are looking for funding from th city of Indianapolis. I will be presenting this to Mayor Ballard.
Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
| Informal Agreement | Formal Agreement (e.g., a written contract or an MOU) with this partner. |
Participants
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Not under community corrections supervision
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Victims
- Gang members
- Elderly
- woman, children, teens, homeless, disabled
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- 04
- Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
- 03
- Total number of people who can be served at one time:
- Open
- If your initiative/program serves people under community corrections supervision, how does your organization work in partnership or work in collaboration with participants’ probation or parole officers?
- We will be seeking help from our Mayor: Mr. Greg Ballard, who has put the re-entry programs into effect. I will be inquiring, and initiating a meeting on the preceedings, for the future of Reflections. I will be seeking grant money for our non-profit organization, and we will share the building with Suzy Q Cleaning Service, which will be used to hire many of our clients, who are intersted in our employment services
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- No
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- We have surveyed many people, institutions, and half-way houses, and have acquanited ourselves with the training of the First Day out program, and we found there are limitations to their client, and what they have to offer, and they have no interest in their well being, but we are the opposite, because there is a need for support, in every element of their lives, families, communities, and as a people of a nation, we are responsible for all Americans, as one body.
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- We will keep track of all our clients progress, and there will be an assestments on a monthly basis. After each month we will acess our progress, and theirs. We will evaluate our clients interest, and options, but most of all employment, counseling, and permenate housing will be available,before one is entered back into soceity. Also, we will continue our services for a year, or when both the client and counselor feel that growth has occurred, and their finances are in order, because many crimes are committed under stresses of finacial issues, and we want to prevent this from happening, with support, and gainful employment, or school.
Activities
- What, if any, activities does your initiative/program include for people while they are incarcerated and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- Our plans is contact the prisons, parole officers, and other facilities, and initiate our services, and our organization commitment to our families, communities, and to help put an end to the revolving door. We will be seeking finacial backing, but we will commit ourselves to this program, and to our families, and communities. The houses will be a place they can call home.
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- We will be in constant contact with the correctional facilities, on how we can assist the individual, on early releasing to our program, or to come home earlier than projected by the state, or judge. We will advocate for the person release into our custody, and the client will be under constant care of their case managers, and their parole officer will be able to visit our houses, and participate in their program accessment. However, if we are convicned the person isn't right for our program. We will be seeking other alternatives, other than imprisonment.
- How are people placed into your program?
- Referral Initiate by counselor, individual, prison, family, other