Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries

Programs: Transitional housing: 1,069 homeless adults and children (a)our transitional housing programs provided housing with social services to 655 different men and women and their children. Homeless people can receive transitional housing for up to two years. Case managers help them develop a personal plan to secure an income source with which to pay for and maintain permanent housing. The following services are provided to help them accomplish that plan: job readiness, housing placement, mental health, medical and dental care, substance abuse treatment and recovery, credit resolution, and ged or adult basic education services. Categories of people who are homeless that we housed were veterans, people with one or more mental illnesses, teen-age mothers attending high school, and adults with developmental or mental disabilities. We helped residents find employment and qualify for income from entitlement programs (such as state supplemental security income and food stamps) 80% of all transitional clients are successfully place in permanent housing. (b)an additional 103 mentally ill and addicted homeless adults received housing in a therapeutically supported living program. (c)311 men returning to the community following release from jail or prison received reentry housing, mentoring and employment assistance. Permanent housing: 132 homeless adults and children (a)drmm's permanent housing for disabled homeless people provided housing with social services to 2 families headed by a disabled adult and their 19 children and another 111 single homeless disabled men. They are eligible for permanent supportive housing for as long as they need or until they are able to move to other housing of their choice. Based on their personal plan (which is designed to help them maintain income, needed services and housing), the following services are provided: mental health, medical and dental care, and substance abuse treatment and recovery services. Among those people we housed, were homeless veterans and people with mental illnesses or developmental disabilities. We helped them find employment and income from entitlement programs (such as state supplemental security income and food stamps). (b)another of our permanent housing programs, working homes working families provided homes in residential neighborhoods to 13 households headed by formerly homeless adults who were homeless despite the fact that they were employed. That program enables the families to live in a private home until the time the deed to the home was transferred to them. At the end of the agreed upon period of time, those who have maintained tax payments, utilities, a savings account for their children's education, and the property itself are given the deed to the home.

emergency food& shelter: 3,931 homeless adults and children 3,931 individual adults and 187 children were given overnight housing and meals for up to three months in our shelter program (or until longer-term housing could be arranged). On any given night we give at least 270 men, women and children a safe, warm place to stay, food, counseling, clothing and showers. The services shelter residents can receive to assure they remained stably housed are mental health, health care, placement in substance abuse detoxification program and transitional housing for homeless individuals or permanent housing with supportive services. In 2013, we took over operation of macomb county's lighthouse outreach center, to provide food and clothing services to 2,700 individuals in macomb county (which includes 260 families)

sub-acute detoxification services: 565 addicted adults medically supervised sub-acute substance detoxification services were provided by a licensed physician to 565 men and women with substance addictions. Medical services include physical assessments of patients, medication monitoring, medical referrals to treatment, treatment for emergency health needs and sick call services. Counseling and referrals for substance abuse treatment, social services and other services are also provided.

substance abuse treatment: 696 addicted men and women 487 men and 209 women received licensed and accredited residential substance abuse treatment services. Twenty children were housed with their mothers who received treatment services. Services include addiction and recovery treatment, case management, individual, group therapy and family counseling, linkage to job training and legal services, medical assessments and referrals, medication monitoring and sick call, psychological evaluations and treatment, and recovery services. Among them were (a)parolees and probationers with drug- or alcohol-related sentences referred by courts and probation agents. (b) senior citizens and (c) indigent men. 26% of all substance addicted men were also homeless and 114 were successfully placed in transitional housing following treatment to help them overcome homelessness and maintain sobriety. Addicted people who do not meet guidelines for funding for treatment from either corrections programs or the health department and have no insurance are provided treatment through funds donated by individuals on our donor list. Services for children and youth: 2,296 children our children's services programs include the greyhound track club for which in 2013 served 27 youth - 21 of whom participated in regional junior olympics competitions and 17 of whom participated in the national junior olympics competition. In collaboration with gifts for all god's children, 415 children received christmas gifts. Another 325 children in 110 families received christmas gifts and items through a separate distribution of gifts prepared by drmm volunteers and donors. Operations services: 7,570 people (a)we provided 814,560 pieces of clothing to 40,728 people (total of duplicated client counts over a 12 month period). Donated clothing is cleaned and sorted by volunteers and given at no charge to the community and homeless residents who live in our programs. (b)people were transported by the transportation fleet over the 12 month period - 8,503 riders from the treatment and homeless services programs were transported throughout the year to medical appointments and community events that support them in achieving program goals and to social services appointments. (c) we served 1. 2 million meals to homeless and addicted people in 2012 in all of our programs. 393,100 meals were cooked just for residents of our treatment and homeless programs, neighborhood residents and people living on the street or served by drop-in centers. Food (donated and purchased) is received, inventoried and routed to our sites through our centralized food warehouse. (d) 1,000 bag lunches were given to homeless clients to take to work with them and food boxes were given to hungry families. (e) surplus food and furnishings are given to affiliated exempt agencies, the christian guidance center and lakeview farms, to assist them in their ministries. (f) 11,000 volunteers donated over 44,000 (estimated value of 924,000) raising produce, painting and cleaning, landscaping, and other tasks throughout the ministries. In addition, through our collaboration with buckets of rain, we raised 16,000 pounds of produces which was used throughout the ministries and helped us in the delivery of 75,000 meals.