Reconciliation Services

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Reconciliation Services

• Hands of healing for the transformation of all.

3101 Troost Avenue Kansas City, MO 64109 (816)
931-4751 tel [phone] fax www.rs3101.org
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In the Urban Core of Kansas City, Mo

• Reconciliation Services seeks to serve indigent
  populations.

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Three Main Areas of Services

• mental health
• emergency assistance
• community development along the Troost Corridor

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Mental Health Services
The mental health treatment options currently
available at RS are

• cognitive behavioral therapy
• solution focused therapy
• crisis intervention
• domestic violence and sexual abuse treatment
• refugee trauma counseling

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Substance Abuse Services
The substance abuse treatment and support
services include

• individual therapeutic sessions
• group therapeutic sessions
• detoxification services

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Emergency Assistance Services

• Food Panty Service
• Once a month, (3 max. per year) then a case
  manager is assigned
• Pan Orthodox Friday Night Meals
• Other services include
• Document support
• Rent and utility assistance (when funds are
  available)
• Referral to extensive support network of other
  agencies

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Community Building Services

• RS continues to be involved in many community
  building activities and maintains its holistic
  multi-systemic approach.
• Troost Community Festival

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RS Clients
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RS Program expenses
Emergency Assistance includes full-time case
manager serving 1,766 clients with
Identification assistance, housing, and basic
needs. Loaves and Fishes - KC served 9,803 meals
and groceries to 3,548 in need.
Fundraising part-time development director,
outside consultant, and travel
Mental Health Services part-time salaries of PhD
Psychologist, clinical social worker, Substance
Abuse Counselor. Provided 376 therapeutic
sessions and 154 group sessions.
Administration part-time salary for Executive
Director, insurance legal fees, and office
expenses.
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RS funding sources
Foundations Grants from Virginia Farah
Foundation and Health Care Foundation of Greater
Kansas City
Individual Donations pledge commitments and
gifts from individual donors
Faith-based groups Holy Family Catholic Worker
House, Holy Trinity Orthodox (OCA),
Contract Collaborations MOCSA, Jewish Vocational
Service, Access to Recovery (ATR)
Sliding-Scale Fees therapy fees received based
on ability of client to pay
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RS Measurement of outcomes

• Quarterly Evaluations
• RS Supervisor Evaluation
• Task Achievement Scaling

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RS Current Offices
2 offices and a small meeting
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RS Renovation

• The 2nd Floor RS Center needs renovation work.
  With volunteer labor, it would cost about 40,000
  or less.
• The 4000 sq/ft will have
• a reception area
• 10 offices
• 2 group rooms
• 2 ADA restrooms

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RS Center Renovation
2nd Floor Rooms
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In the Image of God

• And God said, Let us make man in our image, after
  our likeness God created man in his own image,
  in the image of God created he him male and
  female created he them.
• Gen. 126-27, KJV

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In the Image of God

• The Holy Trinity appeared as three traveling
  strangers to Abraham
• Gen.181
• Abraham later bowed down to strangers, who also
  depicted the icon of God
• Gen. 237
• Kindness to the stranger reflects the iconic view
  of man.
• Gen. 1 26-27

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In the Image of God

• I was a stranger and you took me in
• The Lord Jesus Christ
• Mt. 2535, KJV

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Them are Us in the Gospels

• The Publicans and Sinners (St. Luke 530-32
  734)
• The Roman Centurions (St. Luke 71-10 Act
  101-4, 28)
• The Prostitutes (St. Matt. 2131-32 St. Luke
  736-50)
• The Samaritans (St. Luke 951-56 St. John 4
  40-42)
• The Oppressed Demonized (St. Luke 835-39)
• The Beaten Stranger (St. Luke 1033-37)
• The Poor Homeless (St. Luke 1619-23)
• The Infectious (St. Mark 39-41 St. Luke.
  1711-13)
• Christ transcends country, culture, class, and
  creeds of humans

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Another Them

• Not just non-white, but the poor, the homeless,
  the mentally-ill, the addicted, those with AIDS,
  the disabled, the other.
• All are the ICON of God.
• Contemptible Divisions
• St. Gregory the Theologian (Yannoulatos,, 2003,
  p. 157)
• How should we respond?

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Response to Contemptible Divisions

• Troost Avenue has been known as the racial
  dividing line in Kansas City, Missouri. Yet, the
  word Troost is translated as Comforter in Dutch.
  Even earlier it was translated as tree, trust,
  and true.
• For too long fear has divided us. Too often we
  see those different from ourselves as the
  other, or the stranger.
• The time is now to discover the amazing person in
  front of us as the image or icon of God.

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The vision of RS

• is to experience life together as a community,
  as a village where every human being is treated
  as if he or she were Christ Himself.

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The vision of RS
is to see Troost transformed into the citys
gathering place, where healing, love, joy,
friendship and community grow from the scarred
soil of discrimination.
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The vision of RS
is to see the Troost community become a tree
once again, rooted in being true to one another,
nourished on restored trust, and embracing the
tremendous varieties of life in our midst.
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The vision of RS
is to promote holistic healing throughout Kansas
City by treating the entire person and their
needs within their environment. Romans 141-4
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The Mission of RS
is to promote personal and community healing
throughout Kansas City by treating each person as
the image of God. Genesis 126
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How Do People Finds RS?

• Emergency Service Recipients
• Friday Night Meals
• Support Groups
• Seminars
• Parish referrals
• Agency referrals
• Movies and community activities

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RS Future Depends On

• Establish a base of 200 committed donors,
  volunteers, and
• advocates
• An active and involved Board of Directors
• Seeking diversified funding
• Continued collaboration building
• Building a wider community with social capital
• Culturally proficient therapists at RS and
  throughout KC

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HOW CAN I HELP???

• Prayer (Heb. 1318)
• Renewable Annual Gift (2 Cor. 96-9)
• Advocate for RS (2 Cor. 415)
• Your Volunteering (1 Cor. 1558)

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Volunteer Areas

• Construction Pantry Assistance
• Legal Assistance Painting Assistance
• Kitchen Assistance Accounting Assistance
• Fundraising Transportation assistance
• Filing/Data Entry Marketing
• Advertising Printing
• PR General Maintenance at RS facility
• Mentoring Tutoring
• Larger Troost Community
• Outreach
• including films
• Festivals other events

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Questions Answers
Thank you!
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• Hands of healing for the transformation of all.

3101 Troost Avenue Kansas City, MO 64109 (816)
931-4751 tel [phone] fax www.rs3101.org