TEN UP MINISTRIES THRIFT STORE
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Mission Statement
Ten Up Ministries, Inc 2 Peter 1:7 And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. Ten-Up Ministries, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides a wide range of community services to the families of Kanawha County. Project Center has developed from Ten Up Ministries; Inc and we focus primarily on the families affected by drug addiction. We believe that when we provide, an individual suffering from illicit substance use, the appropriate tools to recover, that they will accept these tools with the love that is displayed; and they will be empowered (not enabled) to take up their mat and walk into their future! Anchor Homes Anchor Homes, Inc is a 501c3 non-profit corporation that operates a faith-based recovery program. Our mission is one of great priority. We believe in helping people of all races, nationalities, social class, religion, gender, and language, with recovery programming and housing. We believe that the answer to addiction is Jesus Christ. Whether people accept Jesus Christ as their savior, does not affect their needs, and will not affect our actions. It is the action of loving one another as Jesus loves us, that will open the door to their hearts for Jesus to walk into. BOARD OF DIRECTORS Primary Grantee Secondary Grantee Ten Up Ministries, Inc Anchor Homes, Inc DBA Anchor Project Center Tax ID# 46-0728303 Tax ID# 87-1127482 Wesley Wood, President (ex officio) Larry Wood, President (ex officio) Merritt Moore, MA, LPC, AADC Cynthia Hale Ernest Paul, Secretary Rev. Paul Chapman Joia Carper, Secretary
About This Cause
Institutional background Ten-Up Ministries, Inc. has been a non-profit organization for 11 years. We obtained our 501c3 status over 8 years ago. We operated under the name Ten-Up Ministries Thrift Store until we incorporated, and we are now known as Ten-Up Ministries, Inc. Here at Ten-Up Ministries, Inc., we are a group of individuals with a fervent desire to help others. We have all had rough times in our lives and believe that God brought us through them so we would have the knowledge and experience to help others. This organization was started with the sole purpose of providing food, clothing, and spiritual guidance to the Kanawha County area. Since opening, we have expanded our reach to Southern West Virginia. Our agency has ministerial, missionary, and community service projects stretching from Belle, WV to Kenova WV. Some of the ways we have been blessed to help the community are: • We opened a church on Coal River Road called Ten-Up Ministries Church. We have supported this church with everything that was needed. Whether it be a youth trip, modern technology for the worship service, music and sound equipment, remodeling of the church, and updating heating and cooling systems. After the original Ten Up Congregation moved to Cross Lanes WV, there has been two separate groups that have been planted into the Coal River Rd Building. • We opened a thrift store in Olde Main Plaza that provides discount clothing to the community. We give two complete outfits including shoes and jackets, to anyone stating a need. In the last ten years we have helped over five hundred individuals with free clothing. • We operate a food pantry that continues to distribute food to approximately forty families a month. We set up and obtain food from Facing Hunger Foodbank and Mountaineer Foodbank. We receive USDA commodities from Facing Hunger out of Huntington, to add to our distribution. These USDA commodities are the only foods that have income requirements to receive. For most of the food, all that is necessary to qualify is a statement of need. We do not judge anyone on their alternative lifestyles. We operate a delivery service to the shut-ins that are unable to come to the pantry. This service is for anyone that is disabled or elderly in the St. Albans and Nitro areas. • We have an annual turkey drive to help needy families for Thanksgiving. Last year we gave away 200 (20 to 24lb) turkeys with all the fix-ins. • We have provided burial assistance for approximately fifteen individuals over the last 10 years. If anyone asks, we have been blessed to never say “no.” • In 2016, We opened Anchor Homes. It started as a transitional home on the west side of Charleston. There were five units in total; one house on Beech Ave and 2 duplexes on the corner of Central Ave and Glenwood Ave. The program’s capacity was twenty-four participants in the beginning. It was not long after opening that we expanded from reentry programming to recovery programming. This program continued to grow and grow until its shadowing effect on the rest of the ministry, that it made the most since becoming its own non-profit, 501c3 agency, with their own Board of Directors. Anchor Homes, Inc is a collaborator on this proposal. Anchor Homes currently has a capacity of 158 in all its locations. Anchor Homes has had an average census over the last 3 months of 132 people. The 158 beds capacity includes eleven that serve as an emergency shelter. We can utilize it for a holdover, an evacuation site, or a segregated COVID unit. • We opened a behavioral health outpatient center in 2019. The center was in Dunbar, WV and named Anchor Project Center. We started with one licensed therapist, 1 Case Manager, and 4 Recovery Coaches. It was not long we opened an office in Huntington, WV as a satellite behavioral health center. This agency has grown to a psychiatrist, two licensed therapist, 1 licensed social worker, 4 therapist, 6 case managers, 3 supportive counselors, and 22 Peer Recovery Support Specialist. We have recently opened our medical division with the addition of an Advance Practice Registered Nurse, Registered Nurse, and 2 Medical Assistants. This addition allows us to follow evidenced based practice with integrated care. This allows us to be able to offer a comprehensive approach, focusing on the body, mind, and spirit. • We have opened Anchor Training Center to teach the Peer Recovery Support Specialist initial training that is necessary to become state certified PRSS. The West Virginia Certification Board for Addiction Prevention Professionals has credentialed the Anchor Training Center. We are awaiting credentials from the West Virginia Social Work Board, West Virginia Board of Examining Counselors, West Virginia Nursing Board, and other national equivalents. The Training Center has been opened since 2022 and has helped approximately seventy-five individuals obtain their state certification and careers driving their middle income lives, making the fact that 12 months prior, they were either homeless or incarcerated, Statement of need We at The Anchor Project Center provide comprehensive integrated behavioral health and primary medical services for individuals dealing with substance use disorders. Our strategy is to provide access to the most effective evidence-based options for therapy, counseling, case management, primary medical needs, and peer support services. In our four years of operation, the role of our peer recovery support specialists has become our most utilized service with our clients taking advantage of hours of peer services on average every week. With many of those hours being provided by employed peers that have attended the same recovery and transitional living programs that The Anchor Project Center serves, we have the ability to give individuals in recovery a professional career opportunity that not only comes with a $37,440 annual salary before bonusses and full benefits package, but also an environment that aids them in sustaining their long term recovery and a chance to pass along the knowledge and skills that they have gained through the positive changes that we and the recovery programs that we serve have helped them achieve. During the regular session in 2022, legislation was passed in the state of West Virginia that required all persons providing services classified as peer recovery services were required to be certified by the West Virginia Certification Board for Addiction Prevention Professionals as Peer Recovery Support Specialists. The application process is extensive to ensure that a certified peer recovery professional is adequately trained and qualified so that both the client and the peer professional are safe and that the services provided are effective. Among the requirements for certification is a total of five hundred hours of voluntary or paid experience that must be supervised and fall into domains that are specific to the peer recovery model of treatment. This requirement became a barrier not only for the individual attempting to become certified, but also for us as an employer seeking qualified individuals to take on the roles of peer support specialists. Those individuals pursuing certification found and may still find it difficult to locate opportunities for supervised volunteer contact hours and paid opportunities were made scarce by the requirement of certification. Many of the positions that agencies had in place, including our own, that would grant the applicant the appropriate contact now had to be filled with an individual certified by the WVCBAPP. The opportunities to obtain the necessary number of supervised contact hours fill quickly and have resulted in obtaining certification taking longer than expected to complete. With our need for certified peer support specialists growing due to the growth and expansion of our service base and the growth of programs that we serve, and the time to acquire a certification for an applying individual also increasing, our ability to serve our clients effectively was being threatened. Our solution was to create the Workforce Development Peer Recovery Support Specialist Internship Program, a position that is not dissimilar to a House Manager position. With most of the programs that we serve falling under the category of sober living or transitional living facilities we were able to provide a service that assists our clients in receiving our services. The house manager helps clients with scheduling, transportation to services, and organizing and improving communication between clients and our providers. These were areas of improvement in which we had yet to find a fully effective solution. The position also allowed us to hire and train an individual to fill a peer support specialist position while they pursue a WVCBAPP certification, became familiar with the type of services they would be providing, and giving them the supervised contact hours and experience needed to become an effective professional peer support specialist. However, because this service falls outside of those provided by peer professionals, we have yet to find a way to be reimbursed or compensated for the services provided by the house manager position also known as the Workforce Development Peer Recovery Support Specialist Intern Position, and as a non-profit organization the position has become a full expense for which we are currently seeking funding. Whether we receive funding or not, this position became necessary to find staff that qualified for the Peer Recovery Support Specialist position, which has become the most effective evidence-based practice, in the last 20 years or more. We have several projects under way. We are growing close to opening our first Residential Inpatient Treatment, with an acquisition at the beginning of the year of an ambulatory residential medical facility. We are also preparing for the Anchor Training Center which will provide educational opportunities for those with Substance Use Disorder as well as a provide training and supervision for those clients that are in improvement periods with CPS.