Reconciliation Services - An Overview

Reconciliation Services

Hands of healing for the transformation of

all.

3101 Troost Avenue • Kansas City, MO 64109 (816) 931-4751 tel • (816) 931-0142 fax

www.rs3101.org

Reconciliation Services seeks to serve indigent populations. �


  mental health   emergency assistance   community development along

the Troost Corridor


  cognitive behavioral therapy   solution focused therapy   crisis intervention   domestic violence and sexual abuse

treatment   refugee trauma counseling

The mental health treatment options currently available at RS are:�


The substance abuse treatment and support services include:


  individual therapeutic sessions

  group therapeutic sessions

  detoxification services

  Food Panty Service –  Once a month, (3 max. per year) then a case

manager is assigned

  Pan Orthodox Friday Night Meals   Other services include:

–  Document support –  Rent and utility assistance (when funds are

available) –  Referral to extensive support network of other

agencies


RS continues to be involved in many community building activities and maintains its holistic multi-systemic approach.

•  Troost Community Festival


Ethnicity

15%

10% 65%

7% 1%2%

African –American

European-American

Immigrants/Refugees

Hispanic/Latino origin

American Indian/Alaska Native

Asian/Pacific Islander


Age of Clients

15%

45%

35%

5%

13-19 Years

20-35 Years

36-55 Years

56 + Years


Insurance Coverage

50%10%

30%

10%

Uninsured

Medicaid

Medicare

Private Insurance


Economic Status

75%

10%

15%

< Federal Poverty Level

FPL up to 2X FPL

> 2X FPL


Geographic Area Served

5%

10%

5%

80%

Kansas City, MO

Jackson County, MO

Cass County, MO

Wyandotte County, KS


January 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008

4%

35%

22%39%

Emergency Assistance$41,879

Fundraising $37,373

Mental Health $23,458

Administration $4,357


Emergency Assistance: includes full-time case manager & serving 1,766 clients with Identification assistance, housing, and basic needs. Loaves and Fishes - KC served

9,803 meals and groceries to 3,548 in need. Fundraising: part-time development director, outside consultant, and travel

Mental Health Services: part-time salaries of PhD Psychologist, clinical social worker, Substance Abuse Counselor. Provided 376 therapeutic sessions and 154 group sessions.

Administration: part-time salary for Executive Director, insurance & legal fees, and office expenses.

January 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008

1%1%

20%

12%

66%

Foundations $94,826

Individual gifts$26,680

Faith-based $17,305

Collaborations$1,921

Sliding Scale Fees$1,827


Foundations: Grants from Virginia Farah Foundation and Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City Individual Donations: pledge commitments and gifts from individual donors

Faith-based groups: Holy Family Catholic Worker House, Holy Trinity Orthodox (OCA),

Contract Collaborations: MOCSA, Jewish Vocational Service, Access to Recovery (ATR)

Sliding-Scale Fees: therapy fees received based on ability of client to pay

  Quarterly Evaluations

  RS Supervisor Evaluation

  Task Achievement Scaling

2 offices and a small meeting


The 2nd Floor RS Center needs renovation work. With volunteer labor, it would cost about $40,000 or less.

The 4000 sq/ft will have: •  a reception area •  10 offices •  2 group rooms •  2 ADA restrooms


2nd Floor Rooms�


And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness… God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Gen. 1:26-27, KJV


  The Holy Trinity appeared as three traveling strangers to Abraham Gen.18:1

  Abraham later bowed down to strangers, who also depicted the icon of God Gen. 23:7

  Kindness to the stranger reflects the iconic view of man. Gen. 1: 26-27


“I was a stranger and you took me in…”

The Lord Jesus Christ Mt. 25:35, KJV �


  The Publicans and “Sinners” (St. Luke 5:30-32; 7:34)

  The Roman Centurions (St. Luke 7:1-10; Act 10:1-4, 28)

  The Prostitutes (St. Matt. 21:31-32; St. Luke 7:36-50)

  The Samaritans (St. Luke 9:51-56; St. John 4: 40-42)

  The Oppressed & Demonized (St. Luke 8:35-39)

  The Beaten Stranger (St. Luke 10:33-37)

  The Poor & Homeless (St. Luke 16:19-23)

  The Infectious (St. Mark 39-41; St. Luke. 17:11-13)

Christ transcends country, culture, class, and creeds of humans


  Not just non-white, but the poor, the homeless, the mentally-ill, the addicted, those with AIDS, the disabled, the “other”.

  All are the ICON of God.

  “Contemptible Divisions” St. Gregory the Theologian (Yannoulatos,, 2003, p. 157)

  How should we respond?�


Troost Avenue has been known as the racial dividing line in Kansas City, Missouri. Yet, the word Troost is translated as Comforter in Dutch. Even earlier it was translated as tree, trust, and true.

For too long fear has divided us. Too often we see those different from ourselves as the “other,” or the “stranger.”

The time is now to discover the amazing person in front of us as the image or icon of God.


… is to experience life together as a community, as a village where every human being is treated as if he or she were

Christ Himself.



… is to see Troost transformed into the city’s gathering place, where healing, love, joy, friendship and community grow from the scarred soil of discrimination.


…is to see the Troost community become a tree once again, rooted in being true to one another, nourished on restored trust, and embracing the tremendous varieties of life in our midst.


…is to promote holistic healing throughout Kansas City by treating the entire person and their needs within their environment.

Romans 14:1-4


…is to promote personal and community healing throughout Kansas City by treating each person as the image of God.

Genesis 1:26

  Emergency Service Recipients

  Friday Night Meals

  Support Groups

  Seminars

  Parish referrals

  Agency referrals

  Movies and community activities


•  Establish a base of 200 committed donors, volunteers, and advocates

•  An active and involved Board of Directors

•  Seeking diversified funding

•  Continued collaboration building

•  Building a wider community with social capital

•  Culturally proficient therapists at RS and throughout KC


1.  Prayer (Heb. 13:18)

3.  Renewable Annual Gift (2 Cor. 9:6-9)

5.  Advocate for RS (2 Cor. 4:15)

7.  Your Volunteering (1 Cor. 15:58)


Construction Pantry Assistance Legal Assistance Painting Assistance Kitchen Assistance Accounting Assistance Fundraising Transportation assistance Filing/Data Entry Marketing Advertising Printing PR General Maintenance at RS facility Mentoring Tutoring

Larger Troost Community •  Outreach •  including films •  Festivals & other events


Thank you!



Hands of healing for the transformation of

all.

3101 Troost Avenue • Kansas City, MO 64109 (816) 931-4751 tel • (816) 931-0142 fax

www.rs3101.org

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Reconciliation Services - An Overview