MIAMI RESCUE MISSION INC
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Mission Statement
Mission Statement: Transform the lives of homeless men, women and children through comprehensive residential programs to effect lasting change and empower them to be productive members of society. We provide food, shelter, substance abuse treatment, education, computer literacy, job placement, healthcare, spiritual development and housing with Christian love, compassion and encouragement.
About This Cause
Miami Rescue Mission, Inc. (MRM), a (501c3) Florida nonprofit corporation, is a charitable faith-based agency providing spiritual, physical, and social services to the poor and needy; including homeless men, women, and children. Its purposes are fulfilled through three campuses in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Our Mission: Transform lives of homeless men, women and children through comprehensive residential programs to effect lasting change and empower them to be productive members of society. We provide food, shelter, substance abuse treatment, education, computer literacy, job placement, healthcare, spiritual development and housing with Christian love, compassion and encouragement. Our Vision: No One is Homeless History and Target Population: Founded in 1922, MRM is one of the oldest and largest providers of vital services in the south Florida community. Until 1997, the primary focus for its services was Miami’s inner-city. Due to the success of the Miami Centers, the Mission was well received in 1922 (serving in various locations) by the Broward community and opened the Broward Outreach Center for Men (BOC-Hollywood) in 1997. BOC was the first to provide emergency shelter and comprehensive recovery programs for the homeless in the southern portion of Broward County. And in 2004 the Borward Outreach center for Women and Children was inaugurated. The MRM has continued to expand its services as it follows its commitment to serve the economically and socially disenfranchised of our communities. The target populations include the poor, needy, and homeless of South Florida. Services: In Miami-Dade County there are two residential centers, the Center for Men and the Center for Women and Children. A nonresidential Miami Community Activity Center provides a preventative program for “at risk” children and youth. An education and career center is available to all program residents and is a vital part of MRM’s services. The Center for Men provides 240 beds for programs, which include emergency services, long-term residential care, and transitional housing. On average, 160 men per day are involved in the 12 to 24 month intensive program of education, counseling, life-skills development, and career/job assistance. The Center for Women and Children, a 50-bed facility, serves homeless women and single mothers with small children. A comprehensive program is designed to equip the women to become successful, contributing members of society through classes in anger management, computer education, work skills training, and parenting classes. Those with children are instructed to become loving, supportive mothers to their children through coping and parenting skills. Also part of this facility is an outreach to transient, single women who need shelter for the night or longer. These women are introduced to services that can help them in further stabilization. The Jeffrey A. Tew Education and Career Center was opened in 1997. Each student is diagnosed educationally and placed in a special prescribed academic program. This program will teach the illiterate to read and write and can take them to GED level. The anticipated outcomes are attainment of a ninth grade reading level, eighth grade business math, and general computer competencies. The students that successfully complete the educational requirements move on to the Career Employment Services. CES main focus is for development of job search skills, additional employment skills, adjustment to the workforce, budgeting and aftercare. Many students continue their education, receiving their high school diploma, entering college, or gaining specialized skills training for job placement. The Miami Community Activity Center (CAC) was opened in November of 2001, to provide preventative programs for adjoining neighborhood children and youth. Through athletic and tutorial programs, over 70 children are served in afternoon and weekend programs during the school year. In the summer the CAC holds a Summer Camp that provides daily activities for over 100 children that otherwise will be left at home unattended. The activities provided are athletics, tutoring, learn to swim, arts and crafts, and special field trips are part of the program and more. Various volunteer groups provide specialized events for the children. In September of 2002, MRM partnered with Dr. Jennifer Jones and now host an innovative day school. The Pioneer Academy has an enrollment of nearly 100 children and when school ends, MRM’s after school program starts. Thrift Store The Miami Campus runs a Thrift Store and monthly car auction. The Thrift Store sells those items that are donated that cannot be used by the clients or centers. Those funds help fund the programs on each of our campuses. The Thrift store also provides work-skills for our residents while in the program teach them valuable lessons for future work. The monthly car auctions also provide funding for the programs. Micro Enterprises The Miami Campus has begun a Micro Enterprises, which primary goal is to employ the hard to employ. Landscaping, painting and property clean up has been the first of these micro enterprises, with hopefully more to come. Transitional Housing Currently the Mission/Center has 11 transitional houses. 4 of these houses are for women and children. These houses allow graduates to have a safe and affordable place to live. These houses are in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties. Broward Outreach Centers The Hollywood Centers holds up to 184 men women and children. This program has an average length of stay of 3-6 months. Health Clinics The Dream of opening a Health Clinic to meet the needs of the men, women, and children enrolled in our residential programs became a reality in May of 2009 in Miami. After that another clinic in November 2010 on our BOC-Pompano campus was opened. In March of 2012 was the celebration for the clinic on the BOC Hollywood campus and in April of 2012 a fourth clinic opened on the campus of Miami Dade College Medical Campus. This dream came to fruition because of collaboration and partnership with Miami Dade College Medical Campus over the past nine years and with others such as (University of Miami, Ross University, Baptist Health, Nova Southeastern University, Boston Scientific Foundation, Michael Capponi Group, Barry University, Florida International University, Broward College and many others). The clinic in its first year saw over 500 unduplicated patients have been seen first time and over 2,500 for follow ups visits. Currently is has had over 9,000 face to face visits. Each clinic operates with one MRM paid staff and by volunteer interns and physicians from various teaching colleges in the community. Presently the nearly 800 men and women of our main centers (there is a constant flow of new clients) have been the focus of health clinic, but our immediate goals are to provide health services to the Youth Center’s Charter Day School and the after school programs which both combined serve nearly 500 “at-risk” kids of the inner city on a daily basis. We are going to include them and their parents as we continue to grow. Homeless & Needy Outreach Additionally every day we also provide meals, showers and changes of clothes to 300 to 400 needy people of the area for that come to our doors. These people are either underemployed or unemployed. Many enter our programs through these efforts.