Annual Report, Fiscal Year 2009 - St. Patrick Center

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Program numbers for Fiscal Year 2009 HOUSING PROGRAMS Independent Living Skills: 276 graduates learned parenting and living skills to assist with their move to permanent housing and self-sufficiency. Neighborhood Support: 326 poverty-level families in existing housing received utility or rent payment assistance to overcome housing crises. Project Protect: See page 5. Rosati Apartments: See page 5. Rosati Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): See page 5. Rosati Group Home: We provided counseling, daily living skills training and 24-hour protective oversight to 32 mentally ill clients. 12 moved into more independent living quarters after acquiring daily living skills and stability. EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING PROGRAMS BEGIN Center: See page 4. Building Employment Skills for Tomorrow (BEST): 39 men and women earned part-time wages and completed on-the-job training. 24 were placed into jobs and 13 were housed. General Employment: We assisted 1,166 individuals who did not meet eligibility requirements for our funded employment programs. Homeless Employment Program (HEP): We helped 201 clients find fulltime employment in this program that works as an employment agency, with no fee to the employer or applicant. 103 were placed into housing. Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP): We placed 6 132 veterans into full-time jobs and 84 into housing. 26 received advanced employment training. Job Experience Training (JET): 28 active clients participated in this intense computer skills training program that includes an eightweek training class with stipend followed by a four-week paid internship with a local employer. McMurphy’s Grill: 57 clients participated in the first restaurant training program in the nation for homeless, mentally ill clients. 30 found employment. Project HERO: See page 5. Project REACH: We placed 148 ex-offenders into full-time jobs after their release from prison. MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS Assertive Community Treatment (ACT): We provided mental health, psychiatric, employment and financial guidance services to 53 clients, ending 114 years of homelessness. Casserole Program: 87 church and community groups (2000+ volunteers) provided 155,823 hot, nutritious meals every day of the year for our Shamrock Club, Rosati Group Home and Shamrock Evening Program (Alumni Club). City Seeds Urban Farm: 29 clients participated in this hands-on job training program led by Gateway Greening. 16 graduated and 8 found jobs. Mobile Outreach: 2 full-time counselors, using bikes or vans, developed trusting relationships with 477 homeless mentally ill people living on the streets. Shamrock Day Program: We assisted 1,128 homeless clients experiencing mental illness and/or substance abuse issues with making a commitment to work on personal goals, benefits assistance, psychiatric assessment, job training, employment and housing. Shamrock Evening Program (Alumni Club): We provided employment training, financial counseling and substance abuse counseling in a safe, supportive environment to an annual membership of 172. Intensive Case Management (ICM, mental health & substance abuse): We helped 285 clients dealing with substance abuse and mental illness. Women’s Night Program: We provided a safe place to sleep at night to 98 mentally ill and/or chemically dependent women. We assisted 8 with their move to permanent housing. SUPPORT SERVICES ABE/GED: We taught reading, writing and math skills, and tutored 64 clients in Adult Basic Education (ABE) and General Education Development (GED). Celtic Creative: See page 5. Child Drop-In Center: 240 children ages 6 weeks to 6 years were cared for in a safe, educational and nurturing environment while their parents received services. Client Intake, Assessment & Tracking Program: Counselors completed 4,542 new, comprehensive assessments of clients’ needs, capturing vital information regarding income, education, children, etc. Healthcare Wing: This collaborative effort of Grace Hill Health Services, Logan Chiropractic Clinic and the St. Louis Dental Society provided comprehensive health services to nearly 1,200 clients.
We have been permanently, positively changed! “St. Patrick Center is hope to me… hope.” Mary Fitz “Before I came to St. Patrick Center, I had no plans and no hope. But I do today and that’s because of St. Patrick Center.” Mary Fitz had an alcohol problem. “I was drinking every day and didn’t know any other way to live,” she recalls. Mary was living in a condemned building with no lights, water or heat. Worse, she was thrown out of a speeding van on the highway and damaged the nerves in her arm. “I thought I was through living, I felt I was no longer complete.” When Mary came to St. Patrick Center, she felt like she didn’t belong. She got a case manager, took an alcohol class, graduated from the Living Skills program, moved into an apartment, got her GED and her favorite accomplishment, a job with City Seeds Urban Farm. “City Seeds is wonderful! I didn’t know I had a passion for gardening, and now it’s what I want to do!” Mary’s arm is improving. She receives physical therapy two days a week at the Partnership Center’s Healthcare Wing. Mary is also a regular in the Shamrock Club. “I come back because I feel God led me here for a reason. Those people I saw when I first got here were me, and now I am here to help them if they want, just as St. Patrick Center is.” The child of an alcoholic mother, Cedric Winthrope battled alcohol abuse since youth. He cared for his mother until her death, but family problems afterward led to his homelessness. When Cedric was doing a demolition job two years ago, a building wall fell on him and broke his neck and leg. “Doctors told me I’d never walk, talk or work again,” Cedric recalls. He stayed with this sister for about a year, until she motivated him to get up and get stronger, and he eventually proved his doctors wrong. Cedric first came to St. Patrick Center for lunch, but noticed the opportunities available to him. He attended a drug class and graduated from the Living Skills program. Through volunteering at his church, he met a man who referred him to the Clean Team, and he was soon hired to wear the purple uniform and maintain the streets of downtown St. Louis! Today, Cedric is a Clean Team supervisor at Busch Stadium, “The best part about this program is I can sleep when I want to and get up when I want to.” Patti Cook Patti Cook’s issues with alcohol, losing a job and health problems led to her homelessness. She says living on the streets and in shelters was a way of surviving, but a dangerous one for women. When her “road buddies” started passing away, she decided it was time for a change. “I wanted something of my own,” Patti recalls. “I was getting up there Cedric Winthrope where they clean the outside of the stadium during baseball games. He feels compassion for the homeless men and women he runs into while working. “I can see myself in them and I tell them to go to St. Patrick Center. If they’re serious about making a change, there’s no way they can fail.” in age, with a lot of health problems, and I wanted to better my life.” Patti first came to St. Patrick Center to get out of the cold and have a hot meal. Later, she participated in the Living Skills, Shamrock Day and Women’s Night programs. St. Patrick Center case managers helped Patti fill out an application to live in the agency’s Rosati Apartments for the chronically homeless. In December 2008, she moved in. “When I walked in the door, it was beautiful!” Patti says. “My apartment is nice, new, furnished, with color/cable TV, pots and pans… and I’m not homeless anymore!” 7
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