Gethsemane Outreach

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GETHSEMANE OUTREACH

Today's Date Wed, 12/20/2017

Agency's Name Gethsemane Outreach

Street Address 144 Weston Road

City Hot Springs

State AR.

Zip Code 71913

Mailing Address (if different) same

Agency's Phone Number 501-617-3900

Agency's website address none

Employer Identification # 46-5248588

CEO's Information

CEO's First Name Jeff

CEO's Last Name Taylor

CEO's Title Program Director

CEO's Email Address jif4ma@yahoo.com

CEO's Phone Number 501-617-3900

Applicant's Contact Information

Contact's First Name Shane

Contact's Last Name Robertson

Contact's Email Address shane@hotspringsbaptist.org

Contact's Phone Number 501-802-0808

Part II

Program Name Gethsemane Outreach

Program Summary

The goal of Gethsemane Outreach is to provide a safe environment where men are being transformed into a new way of living which helps them overcome their hurts, habits, and hang-ups.
1. Spiritual Development: CR 12-Step Study, Discipleship Training
2. Social/Personal Development: Etiquette, Time Management, Conflict Resolution, Anger Management, Relational Skills
3. Home Development: Cleaning, Cooking, Budgeting/Financial Skills, Hospitality
4. Career Development: Work Ethic, Resume Writing, Career Planning, Networking, Education, Job Training, Interview Skills

Amount Requested $15,000

Amount Received Prior Year $1,000 - mini grant from United Way

Which general area of focus does the program fall under? Pick one Health & Safety

Mission Statement & Program

The mission of Gethsemane Outreach is to provide a safe, Biblically structured environment for men in need who have a genuine desire to defeat their hurts, habits, and hang-ups.

Gethsemane Outreach provides a safe place to live, meals, and other needs for the men during their transition and aftercare regardless of their financial resources.

Bible studies and attendance at church services and classes, as well as Celebrate Recovery, help men slowly build upon Christ for their self-esteem and confidence. Spiritual disciplines such as accountability, Scripture reading, Bible study, prayer and Scripture memory aid in personal spiritual development.

The Gethsemane Outreach Program helps men be accountable for their own feelings, actions and behaviors by making them aware of the consequences of reckless actions and the need to thoroughly weigh consequences before acting. The program helps men seek realistic daily goals for themselves by supporting carefully thought out objectives that are well within their reach.

Program Description

Gethsemane Outreach is a faith-based recovery program that provides transitional and aftercare living structure to men who want help in making the change from past addictive lifestyles to productive every day living. The men are housed in three different homes with up to eight men in each home. Two homes are starter homes (transitional) and one is a graduation home (aftercare). Gethsemane Outreach is available twenty four hours a day for men in crisis (men needing immediate services). Non-alcoholic Veterans in need of temporary housing may be placed in the aftercare home.
Men in the transition homes receive concentrated training for defeating their chemical addiction. Other training includes life skills such as spiritual, social/personal, home and career development. Once men are stable in their environment and development, Gethsemane Outreach finds them a safe job where they are not exposed to drugs and alcohol. Training and supervision continue until promotion to the aftercare home. In the aftercare home, the men are more independent and stay until they demonstrate the ability to live on their own.

Statement of Need

“The choices and behaviors of people, such as diet, physical activity, alcohol, tobacco and other drug use affects both physical and mental health outcomes. In overall health, Arkansas ranked 49th among all U.S. states according to America’s Health Rankings for 2014.14 Several key determinants of health, including behavioral factors, community and environmental factors, health policies, and clinical care determinants, as well as health outcomes, such as disease states, poor physical and mental health days, and death rates were utilized to create state rankings of overall health.” “Consequences of substance use can be related to substance use in general, caused by specific substances (e.g. liver damage caused by alcohol consumption), and/or related to the route of administration (e.g. damage to the lungs caused by smoking). For example, in 2013, Arkansas had 14,641 drug-related arrests. This includes possession, sales and manufacturing arrests. Of these arrests, 48 percent were marijuana- or hashish-related arrests, and 21 percent were stimulant-related arrests. Other drugs, opiates and unknown or unspecified drugs accounted for the rest of the drug-related arrests. (Amphetamines also include methamphetamine. Opiates include heroin, morphine, opium and other narcotics. Other drugs include more than three types of drugs, other stimulants, hallucinogens and depressants, such as barbiturates.)

"The nonmedical use of prescription pain relievers (opiates) has decreased since 2007-2008 among 18-25 year-olds, while staying almost the same in adults ages 26 and older. Compared with national estimates, Arkansas has a higher percentage of adults using pain relievers for nonmedical use. This may indicate that, while other states have made headway in curbing abuse of prescription pain relievers, Arkansas has not."

According to Arkansas Attorney General, Leslie Rutledge, Arkansas has been hit hard, with drug overdose deaths in the state rising from just over 100 in 1999 to more than 400 in 2016.

Garland County Key Findings:
Weaknesses:
➤ 3rd highest rate of adults reporting excessive drinking habits
➤ 4th highest rate for alcohol- or other drug-related crashes
➤ 7th highest rate of students reporting parental attitude favorable toward anti-social behavior
➤ 8th highest rate of births to women using alcohol during pregnancy
➤ 8th highest rate of total crime index offenses
➤ 9th highest suicide rate
➤ 10th highest rate of youth illicit drug use
➤ 10th highest rate of substance abuse arrests

Statistics are from the 2015 Arkansas Epidemiological State Profile of Substance Use and Arkansas Attorney General.

What is the specific need addressed by this program?

Hot Springs has several facilities for men who are trying to be freed from drug addiction. Gethsemane Outreach is a facility that does NOT require entry fees or weekly fees for indigent men who struggle with addiction. This is the only known program with a crisis bed (a twenty-four hour stay which is available anytime 24-7).

How was the need identified and what sources verified it?

Gethsemane Outreach was started when there were three men sleeping in the lobby of a church and they had no where else to go.

The need was identified by researching the amount of drug abuse in our state, county and city and the consequences on such abuse. The rate of success in faith-based programs is greater than in secular programs for transitional living.

Lance & Daris Hudnell

102 Norway Ct. Hot Springs, AR 71901
501.622.9930
lhudnell@cablelynx.com
January 30, 2018

To Whom it May Concern:
For the past few years it has been my pleasure to work in a small way with the Gethsemane Outreach, Inc. I have found Gethsemane to be an effective ministry in assisting men in recovery by providing a safe and faith-based program giving them the opportunity to return to productive lives or in some cases to begin new lives absence the burdens of the past. During their journey to recovery the men of Gethsemane have also been able to learn to ministry to others by participating in a variety of community projects.
Warm regards,
Lance & Daris Hudnell

Provide Impact Statement

$5,000 a month provides up to 21 men with needed housing, meals, transportation, recovery training, maintenance, utilities and basic supplies.

What will UW Funding specifically be used for? (SPECIFICALLY)

Five thousand dollars a month is the minimum amount needed to provide housing, meals, transportation, recovery training, insurance, maintenance, utilities, and basic supplies for up to 21 men. All workers at Gethsemane are volunteers. There are no paid workers. Gethsemane House is dependent on donations and percentage of income from men who have progressed to working..All of the money will be used to meet their basic needs for living and transitioning.

This funding will provide stability to the budget and will help reduce the continuing credit card debt.It will enable Gethsemane to start working in a positive cash flow instead of a negative cash flow.

What will UW funding allow you to do that otherwise could not be done? Why is this important?

The UW funding will allow Gethsemane Outreach to keep accepting men without an entry fee and to keep receiving crisis calls 24-7 from men who are in need.

This is important because Gethsemane Outreach is the only men's facility providing faith-based recovery with open enrollment opportunities.

Is this program sustainable? If yes, what is your long term plan for sustaining this program?

Yes, this program is sustainable. The program manager has in place a peer-system for leadership. The manager is training men to do program directing and training. Because of the ongoing need in our community for such a program, donations will continue.

What effect will the program have on the entire population or problem situation?

During the program, residents are encouraged to interact with their family groups so the program goes farther than the men themselves. Men are encouraged to invite family members to attend Celebrate Recovery classes and church services with them. This provides the basis for spiritual support and for transitioning back into the families.

The program will help the entire population by taking these men off the streets, giving them support to break their addictions, and transitioning them back to families and jobs so they will become productive members of our society.

Will the funds provided by United Way of the Ouachitas be matched by another agency, program, grant or foundation? If Yes, by how much? No.

Community Collaboration How do you work collaboratively to provide these services?

Gethsemane Outreach collaborates with the following community entities to provide services:
County Court System
United Way
Salvation Army
Samaritan Ministries
Safe Haven
Veterans in Crisis Agency (Steve Ezell - VA Crisis Agent)
Mission Hot Springs - Hot Springs Baptist Church
Therapeutic Family Services
National Park Community College (GED classes)
Dr. Danny Haynes (Dentist)
Dr. John Featherston (Medical Doctor)
Dr. Harry Dennison (Optometrist)
Volunteers from Hot Springs Baptist Church, Gospel Light Church, and Garage Church

What part of your services enables you to work with other groups to address this issue for the community?

The men of Gethsemane Outreach provide service to the community based on need through United Way, Veterans' Assistance, and Salvation Army.

Part III

Total Funded Inputs

A. Volunteers:
1 staff
1 administrator
1 bookkeeper
2 support
6 support teachers
B. Buildings
1. Liberty House
2. Integrity House
3. Redemption House
C. Equipment
2 vehicles
home appliances
home furniture
yard maintenance equipment

Program Objectives

Increase by 20% in 12 months the number of men from Gethsemane Outreach progressing back into society as sober, productive and responsible citizens.

Program Services

Liberty House and Redemption House (Transition Houses)
The following is a list of meetings and lessons provided by Gethsemane Outreach to its clients. This list must be followed by all non-working residents. Exceptions to miss meetings and lessons must be approved prior to missing the meeting/lesson. Work and approved passes are basically the only excuses for missing these meetings/lessons. Clients will be expected to make every attempt to schedule their workdays so they can attend as many scheduled meetings/lessons as possible. Excuses for missing meetings/lessons will not be accepted for anyone who has less than 90 days at a Gethsemane Outreach housing facility.

Integrity House (Graduate House):
All residents are invited to attend every meeting and are required to make at least four of the meetings/lessons below per week; church attendance is required.

Meeting/Lessons Schedule:
Morning: Sunday - Sunday School and worship service at Hot Springs Baptist Church
Monday through Friday - Men's Meditation and Bible Study Lesson
Evening: Monday - House meeting or Relapse Prevention Loss
Tuesday - Celebrate Recovery set-up and meeting
Wednesday -Dinner at Hot Springs Baptist, Bible study and Life's Healing Choices
Thursday - House meeting after dinner
Friday - Celebrate Recovery Meeting

Total Funded Program Outputs

Sunday School and worship service at Hot Springs Baptist Church
Men's Meditation and Bible Study Lesson
House meeting or Relapse Prevention Loss
Celebrate Recovery set-up and meeting
Dinner at Hot Springs Baptist, Bible study and Life's Healing Choices
House meeting after dinner
Celebrate Recovery Meeting

All members attend and participate in scheduled meetings and classes.

6 men received counseling

Outcome Measures

Progression from transitional houses to graduate house and from graduate house to independent living is not based on number of days in each phase, but each man demonstrating:

acceptance of personal responsibility for actions
mentoring of other men in the program
honesty and transparency
willingness to be held accountable
readiness to forgive others and themselves
attitude of service
dependability and excellence in work ethic
have a job
be 6 months sober
measurable attitude of the willingness to work with others

Evaluation Plan

1. Observation and evaluation by Project Manager
2. Employer evaluations
3. Indication men are independently taking initiative for delivering on commitments
4. Court evaluation

Success Story from the past 12 months

1. Shaun came to Gethsemane Outreach (GO) from Fort Smith, AR where he had a lot of baggage from the past with his family. After his arrival at the GO House, he relapsed twice and was transferred to Levi Hospital, then he returned to GO. It was a “close ride” with Shaun in many areas. Once his faith came down from his head to his heart, he became a different person working out the challenging road of sober living ahead of him. He now has over one year of clean, sober living. His family is back in his life. His driver’s license, which had been revoked, was restored when he presented his completion of the program certificate to the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. His work ethic at his job, which was formed while in GO, helped him obtain a truck. He is now reaching out to the men of GO and assists his fellow man whenever possible. He is living out what he learned as a part of the Gethsemane Ministry.

2. While providing showers and haircuts to the homeless at one of the GO houses for the United Way homeless count, we met a fellow man in dire need. He was a Veteran, recently released, in need of overnight lodging and next day transportation to the Greyhound Bus Depot in Malvern, AR. He had a bus ticket to his hometown, but no provisions for lodging or meals before the journey nor transportation to the Bus Depot. Sleeping on the street was his only option. Being on the streets might have resulted in a negative outcome for him. His circumstances were evaluated and the decision was made to grant him a spot in our “Men in Crisis Bed”. Gethsemane Outreach gave him an overnight stay, meals and provided him with GO van transportation to Malvern to meet his bus the next morning. He arrived home safely and was reunited with his family.

3. Jason was picked up by the Gethsemane Outreach Director from National Park Hospital, Hot Springs, AR upon his discharge. He had liver failure caused by alcohol abuse. He had nowhere to go. His condition was so serious that he was turned down for a liver transplant. Doctors predicted he would live approximately 7 months. Jason survived 8 months at the GO house. He was ministered to, cared for, and his medical, physical and spiritual needs were met. The GO House residents gave him support during his final journey in life and he now lives with Jesus. The experience and reality of Jason’s death brought a visible closeness to the men of GO. Together they helped a man transition through a difficult time in life caused by poor decisions to a new life which was the result of a good decision.

Geographical Area Served & Target Population

Are your programs restricted to certain cities or parts of cities? No

Number of clients in Garland County 10

Number of clients in Clark County 1

Number of clients in Pike County 1

Number of clients in Hot Spring County 4

Number of clients in Montgomery County 0

Number of clients in Polk County 0

Number of clients in Saline County 0 Johnson County: 1 Jefferson County: 1 Sebastian County: 2

Client Totals

Projected number of units of service July 2017 - June 2018 20

Proposed number of units of service July 2018- June 2019 21

Projected number of unduplicated count of clients served July 2017 - June 2018 20

Proposed number of unduplicated count of clients served June 2018- July 2019 21

Upload Client Population and Conditions Worksheet Client Population & Conditions.docx

Part IV

Upload your Program Budget GO Program Budget.docx

Additional Budget Narrative

A. Personnel
1. Project Director - unsalaried volunteer. He is available twenty-four hours a day seven days a week to do whatever is needed in a crisis situation. He oversees the program; directs the training; provides transportation to medical appointments, court appointments, jobs, and community service projects; and supervises volunteers.
2. Staff Members - unsalaried volunteers.

B. Professional Fees
All of the services are provided by volunteers.

C. Program Supplies and Equipment
1. Drug Test
2. Office supplies
3. Miscellaneous Ministry expenses

D. Occupancy and Utilities
1. Liberty House - 8 men - $11,220
2. Integrity House - 8 men - $9,000
3. Redemption House - 8 men - $6,600

E. Travel & Vehicles
1. Fuel - $4,000
2. Maintenance - $1,000

F. Interest
1. Credit Card Bill - used for designated expenses only under supervision of the Board.

G. Specific Assistance to Individuals - groceries for resident prepared daily meals and household items
1. Liberty House - $14,400
2. Integrity House - $2,400
3. Redemption House - $9,600

H. Insurance
1. Vehicles (2) - $3,600
2. Liberty House - $2,000
3. Integrity House - $2,000
4. Redemption House - $2,000
5. Board Insurance - $3,000 ($1,000 per Board member)

I. Miscellaneous Expenses
1. Liberty House - $1,200
2. Integrity House - $1,200
3. Redemption House - $1,200

Describe how the agency's board functions?

1. The Gethsemane Board of Directors created a statement of mission and purpose that defined Gethsemane's goals, means, and the primary constituents to be served.
2. The Board selected a qualified individual to serve as Program Director.
3. The Board participated in the overall planning process and assisted in the implementing and monitoring the goals of Gethsemane Outreach.
4. The Board helps determine which programs are consistent with the Gethsemane's mission and monitors their effectiveness.
5. The Board helps secure adequate resources for Gethsemane to fulfill its mission.
6. The Board assists in developing the annual budget and ensures that proper financial controls are in place.
7. The Board assumes responsibility for adherence to legal standards and ethical norms.

How often did your board meet during the last 12 months?

The Gethsemane Outreach Board of Directors meets monthly. The Board may meet weekly or bi-weekly if immediate decisions are needed.

Agency Activity

Were you able to pay all regular operational expenses within 60 days of the due date?
Have you been able to maintain your 501 (c) 3 Tax Exempt Status?
Did your agency operate in a deficit within the past fiscal year?

Upload your 501c3 if we do not already have it Letter of Determination.pdf

A copy of the most recent IRS Determination Letter Letter of Determination.pdf

Upload your most recent 990 2016 Form 990.pdf

Upload your audited Financial Statement GO Financial Audit.pdf

Upload your Board of Directors Roster GETHSEMANE OUTREACH BOARD OF DIRECTORS.docx

Upload your Non Discrimination Policy Gethsemane Outreach Non Discrimination.docx

Upload your Agency Bylaws GO Bylaws.pdf

Upload your budget GO Budget 2017 (1).xlsx

Digital Signature Required Shane Robertson

Part V

Agency Information

Agency Day of Caring Coordinator Teddy Short

Phone 501-609-6610

E-mail Jif4ma@yahoo.com

Project Information

(If agency has more than one project to be completed, please email the rest of the projects in detail to sarah.fowler@unitedway.org)

Site Address of Project Mission Hot Springs https://missionhotsprings.com

Number of volunteers needed Ideal - 15 Maximum - 20 Minimum - 5

Project Time 8:45 am

Project Details To mininster in the community by doing work-force projects such as home repair and yard maintenance.

Special Skills

	Yes	No
Do you have a "project leader" with the skills needed?	X
(or) Do you need a leader?		X
Could the above "project leader" direct a group of average volunteers in completing this project?	X
(or) Are more volunteers needed with special skills?		X

If more are needed how many (of the ideal # above) volunteers need these skills? 0

Please identify needed skills painting, yard work, home repair, general construction/clean up

Items Needed work gloves, sun hats, sun glasses, work tools

Part VI

Please list any special events for 2018

Mission Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
Coordinator, Shane Robertson
Service Projects
July 11-20, 2018 8:45 AM -5:00 PM

Part VII

What is your agency's wish list? Volunteers, Jobs for Clients, Monetary Donations, Home Cooked Meals