Program areas at Reconciliation Services
Reveal social & mental health Services - professional case management Services are provided for clients residing in the Kansas city metropolitan area, with a primary focus on clients living in the neighborhoods east of troost avenue. Services include housing and utilities assistance, id and document assistance, financial medical assistance through the Kansas city medicine cabinet, referrals to other agencies, and other general case management Services. In 2023 this program achieved the following:- over 3,730 unduplicated clients were served- 2,100 individuals received $73,850 in utilities assistance- 115 received medical & dental service (excluded from 990 fs)- 5,147 received more than $40,500 in id assistance- 457 individuals received approximately $477,400 in housing assistanceour innovative mental health program provides group therapy, individual therapy, and aftercare support, helping clients find hope and healing from depression, trauma, and post-traumatic stress syndrome (ptsd). In 2023 this program achieved the following:- 43 clients received approximately 238 hours of group therapy- 74 clients received approximately 1,050 hours of individual therapy
Healthy community initiatives - thelma's kitchen, a donate-what-you-can cafe'. In 2023 this program achieved the following: - meals were served in thelma's kitchen. Additionally, volunteers contributed hours serving meals.
Economic community building programs - the foster grandparents program (a partnership with the senior corps, which is part of the corporation for national and community service) recruits, trains and mobilizes low-income senior adults to volunteer with at risk area youth. In 2023 this program achieved the following:- approximately 71 low-income senior volunteers serving in Reconciliation Services' foster grandparents program contributed 58,000 hours mentoring and providing emotional support to over 300 students in the Kansas city Missouri school district, and at other community locations including operation breakthrough and the family court, as well as at other schools in jackson, clay and platte counties. The monetary value of these Services, not reported in 990 financial statements, would be $736,600. In addition, these low-income seniors received over $330,420 in volunteer stipends and transportation reimbursements, which provided an essential financial supplement to their fixed monthly incomes.