HARBOR OF HOPE MISSION
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Mission Statement
Harbor of Hope's mission is to provide a safe haven of respect and love for recovering men to transform and reconstruct their lives.
About This Cause
The Harbor of Hope is a residential facility that takes men directly from prison, jails, and treatment centers with a history of substance abuse. The Harbor instantly provides residents with basic needs including housing, food, clothing and toiletries upon release and entry. The residents enter the Harbor of Hope’s minimum, six-month Lifetime Recovery program designed to help develop a sustainable recovery program that builds a support network for recovery support, and also addresses five key areas of their life: 1. Physical and mental health 2. Employment 3. Education 4. Financial training 5. Reconnecting to family and friends The Harbor of Hope’s program is centered on peer support, staff guidance, and connecting the resident with a network of community service providers and support people. The program leverages service providers in key areas to provide fundamental life skills in the five focus areas, by guiding them thru the system and effectively engaging with each. This process is often difficult for residents due to their unfamiliarity with these providers’ existence and often complex application processes, services available, or insurance considerations. By providing guidance to help them navigate the system barriers and creating a positive support system, residents are less likely to reoffend, find their way back if they do, and stay with the programs that will help them find a practical approach to sustainable lifetime recovery. Our partners develop a relationship with the clients that extend beyond their time living at the Harbor of Hope. The goal is to condition our clients to meet with healthcare providers and develop a relationship with them, which assists the clients and their family into the future. Residents are often initially intimidated by processes at healthcare facilities which deters them from continuing care. However, our relationships with these providers and guidance we provide residents helps them work through that. In essence, we teach our clients to fish for a lifetime by developing their skills to access vital community resources now and into the future. Clients are required to maintain full time employment during the duration of their stay at the Harbor of Hope, as well as fulfill any recommendations made by Synergy, CareMore, and House of Mercy. A typical client can take up to two and a half weeks to establish employment. Clients are also required to attend at least four 12-step meetings per week, attend therapy and addiction aftercare, and follow-up with staff at the Harbor of Hope regularly. During the six-month program (minimum), the Harbor of Hope staff works to address any family or social issues present in the client’s life, which are unique to every client. If there are visitation rights issues for their children due to unpaid child-support, clients are sent to the Fatherhood Initiative, where the client can attend parenting classes in exchange for reduced back child-support payments. Clients are often given the opportunity to do community service in exchange for a reduction in court fines, which in some cases, have been reduced by 10% or more. Our partnerships with Caremore Iowa and Synergy Clinical Services, serve to first assess our client's physical and mental health. By addressing these issues on the front-end, we are able to combat recidivism that would transpire from a lack of accountability to their mental health needs. We send our clients to Iowa Workforce Development to obtain a proper work history form that will enable them to demonstrate their skills and abilities. At that point, we can assess what programming is necessary for the client, whether it is educational attainment, such as HiSet, or job-training and placement. The Harbor resident can also access extensive employment training through our partnership with Project IOWA. This training program offers more than just the technical skills needed to work in a better career, our participating clients will learn how to better understand themselves, gain confidence in their abilities, and take control of their lives. Their unique VIP (Vision, Initiative, and Perseverance) course focuses on raising the participants’ emotional intelligence and self-awareness by providing them with tools to help the have a more positive perspective of themselves and their personal circumstances, begin career goal planning, and developing connections with family and the community. Once they have successfully developed coping skills that will serve them in both their personal and professional lives, our clients will move into their more extensive courses addressing career management and eventually industry specific training, while continuing to develop their emotional intelligence, self-awareness, and goal setting skills. This program will supplement and enhance our other existing program partners efforts around coping and relationship building. The client is also required, without exception, to attend aftercare classes at House of Mercy, whom we have partnered with since 2011. This is often coupled with programming prescribed by the courts, in which they are not only accountable to the court, but also to the Harbor Staff. Clients are also mandated to go to four AA/NA meetings per week. The Harbor of Hope's approach is to provide a positive environment that meets the client at their individual point on the recovery journey. The Harbor staff’s expertise in assisting clients is from their own experiences with substance abuse and successful road to recovery. The Harbor has the capacity for 40 residents at any given time, but after completing the minimum 6 months in the house, they continue to work their plan as they move into their own housing and living situations. 100% of the Harbor’s budget goes toward supporting the basic needs and the Lifetime Recovery program through programmatic and administrative supports.