Next Steps Program

After guests of HRM have been with us for 3 days, the majority choose to enter our 21- Day Next Steps program. During this three-week period, participants work with an individual case manager to develop a daily action plan that includes applying for at least three jobs per day and connecting them to local employment resources. That person is then required to bring a daily report back to their case manager. It's about making each person's time with us productive and requiring some form of accountability.

Life Skills and Housing Readiness

For many of our guests, life has been very hard from a young age. The cycle of family trauma has created obstacles to managing their health and mental wellbeing as well as learning life skills to navigate adult life. We can provide life skills and housing readiness classes that focus on:

Goal Setting, Stress, Anger, and Time Management, Resiliency, Effective Communication, Conflict resolution, Boundaries, Budget Meal Planning, and Financial Stewardship.

We hope to encourage momentum for making life decisions towards stability and independence.

Discipleship Program

When a guest completes the Next Steps program and has found employment, they move into our 6-month Discipleship program. This time at HRM includes completing our money management program (including establishing a savings goal and budgeting instruction), further counseling, and establishing a connection with a local church. Our goal is to see each guest graduate with the confidence, spiritual maturity, and life skills needed for independent living.

Turning Point Recovery Program for Men

Many that come to HRM seeking help are also struggling with drug and/or alcohol addiction. Because of that, we offer our 8-month Turning Point Recovery program for men, in an effort to break the addiction and set participants on the road to success.

For the first ten weeks of the program, clients receive counseling and spiritual guidance but are not permitted to leave the premises without an escort. From that point, we ease them into looking for work and introduce our money management program and allow more individual time with accountability and approved visitors. As with the Discipleship program, our goal is to move clients toward healthy, independent, productive lives with a spiritual base to guide their way.

Mother’s Program

We desire to provide a safe and welcoming space for mothers and their children experimenting homelessness by providing for their basic needs while they take a deep breath from their struggles, as they find new hope in God’s love and forgiveness in Jesus Christ, and then refocus on the next steps towards healthy, sustainable living.

Phase One focuses on setting up a healthy schedule and checklist of foundational steps, including vital documents needed for housing, childcare and job placement, health and mental health evaluations, as well as parenting classes and Bible Study. Phase Two mirrors the Discipleship program to provide a continuation of case management accountability, a commitment to budgeting and savings, family counseling, in-depth parenting and life skills classes and participation in a local church.

**All those participating in any of our programs must be declared mentally stable and taking any prescribed medications in order to say at the Mission.

Maple Street Extension

The recent acquisition of the former Triskelion Brewery has permitted expansion of HRM’s programming. In one of these buildings we have created a Women and Children’s Day Center space that aims to provide a multi-use area for fostering resiliency through creative expression. Here we have designed cozy corners for children and adolescents to find a comforting quiet space to play and study, as well as an effective space for mothers to work on the employment search and life skills training. We have already enjoyed creating art projects and healthy cooking demos together.

We are excited about an upcoming project called the “Healing Garden”. The purpose is to provide a beautiful outdoor healing space that would foster creativity, community, health, and independence through a play space for children and a growing space for women and children. It will provide a hands-on approach to teach cooperation, respect for others, and a marketable trade skill. There is so much to learn about God’s love for us through the sprout of a plant, the beauty of a flower, the production of seeds, and the eventual death of the plant that sows seeds leading to new life. This tangible spiritual lesson can be incorporated into the training and growing process.