Reconciliation Services - An Overview

Reconciliation Services

Hands of healing for
the transformation of
all.

3101 Troost Avenue • Kansas City, MO 64109
(816) 931-4751 tel • (816) 931-0142 fax
www.rs3101.org

Reconciliation Services seeks to serve
indigent populations.


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

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


The substance abuse treatment and
support services include:
  individual
therapeutic
sessions

  group
therapeutic
sessions

  detoxification
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


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

•  Troost Community Festival


Ethnicity
2%
7% 1%

10% 65%
African –American
European-American
Immigrants/Refugees
Hispanic/Latino origin
American Indian/Alaska Native
15% Asian/Pacific Islander


Age of Clients
5%
15%

45%

13-19 Years
20-35 Years
35% 36-55 Years
56 + Years


Insurance Coverage

10%

10% 50%

30% Uninsured
Medicaid
Medicare
Private Insurance


Economic Status
10%
75%
15%

< Federal Poverty Level
FPL up to 2X FPL
> 2X FPL


Geographic Area Served
5%
5%
80%
10%

Kansas City, MO
Jackson County, MO
Cass County, MO
Wyandotte County, KS


January 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008
4%
Emergency Assistance
39%
22% $41,879
Fundraising $37,373

Mental Health $23,458

Administration $4,357
35%

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.

January 1, 2008 - September 30, 2008
1% 1% Foundations $94,826
12%
20% Individual gifts
$26,680
Faith-based $17,305

Collaborations
$1,921
66% Sliding Scale Fees
$1,827

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


  Quarterly Evaluations

  RS Supervisor Evaluation

  Task Achievement Scaling

2 offices and a small meeting


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


2nd Floor Rooms


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. 1:26-27, KJV


  The Holy Trinity appeared
as three traveling strangers
to Abraham
Gen.18:1

  Abraham later bowed
down to strangers, who also
depicted the icon of God
Gen. 23:7

  Kindness to the stranger
reflects the iconic view of
man.
Gen. 1: 26-27


“I was a stranger and
you took me in…”
The Lord Jesus Christ
Mt. 25:35, KJV


  The Publicans and “Sinners” (St. Luke 5:30-32; 7:34)
  The Roman Centurions (St. Luke 7:1-10; Act 10:1-4, 28)
  The Prostitutes (St. Matt. 21:31-32; St. Luke 7:36-50)
  The Samaritans (St. Luke 9:51-56; St. John 4: 40-42)
  The Oppressed & Demonized (St. Luke 8:35-39)
  The Beaten Stranger (St. Luke 10:33-37)
  The Poor & Homeless (St. Luke 16:19-23)
  The Infectious (St. Mark 39-41; St. Luke. 17:11-13)
Christ transcends country, culture, class, and
creeds of humans

  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?


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.


… 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.


… is to see Troost transformed
into the city’s gathering place,
where healing, love, joy,
friendship and community
grow from the scarred soil of
discrimination.


…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.


…is to promote holistic healing
throughout Kansas City by
treating the entire person and
their needs within their
environment.
Romans 14:1-4


…is to promote personal and
community healing throughout
Kansas City by treating each
person as the image of God.
Genesis 1:26


  Emergency Service Recipients

  Friday Night Meals

  Support Groups

  Seminars

  Parish referrals

  Agency referrals

  Movies and community activities


•  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


1.  Prayer (Heb. 13:18)

3.  Renewable Annual Gift (2 Cor. 9:6-9)

5.  Advocate for RS (2 Cor. 4:15)

7.  Your Volunteering (1 Cor. 15:58)


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


Thank you!


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