Program areas at Winston-Salem Rescue Mission
Our life builders program is a 90-day men's residential program providing structure, discipline, accountability, recovery classes, ged and computer education, work therapy, integrated biblical counseling and spiritual guidance. This program has a 62-bed capacity at our Winston-Salem campus. During 2023-2024, 154 men were served through the program, with 47 graduating. Of those, 25 graduates went into our 1-year new life center transformers program. Additionally, 14 men went on to obtain outside employment and 8 men transferred from our program to permanent housing.
The wsrm community outreach programs impact over 5,000 individuals per year by providing free services to those in need, including food pantry, clothing closet, meals, bag lunches for the homeless, and space for free medical and dental services. Wsrm also provides holiday food boxes for those needing help during the thanksgiving season. During 2023-2024, wsrm provided a total of 123,591 meals to the community, including: Mission kitchen served 110,048 meals to program residents, and provided 4,991 meals (bag lunches) to homeless individuals; food pantry and emergency food boxes provided 8,552 meals/boxes. The wsrm clothing closet distributed over 519 pieces of clothing. Wsrm is the host site for the samaritan clinic, which provided free medical/dental services to 768 individuals without insurance.
The new life center transformers program is a one-year men's residential program providing structure, discipline, accountability, recovery classes, additional case management, work therapy, integrated biblical counseling and spiritual guidance services for selected graduates of our 90-day program. Life skills, career development, and other educational opportunities are also offered in this program, including classes towards ged completion, computer education and college courses. This program has a 32-bed capacity at our Winston-Salem campus. During 2023-2024, 25 men were served through this program, with 9 graduating. Additionally, 6 went on to obtain outside employment and 6 transferred from our program to permanent housing. 2 residents attending educational programs.