Mission
Our mission is to provide a safe environment for the relationship to thrive, offer guidance and direction on recommendable tenets that can promote healthy relationship in marriage, a facility set up or community and encourage healing and mending of broken relationships.
Population served
Our program targets the young adults who are still at the exploration stage of sexual relationship which makes them vulnerable to sexual violence, sexual exploration, early pregnancies, STIs and emotional trauma. We also target the engaged who are serious at settling down and hence would want to understand the tenets of successful relationship and marriage. In addition, we target married couples who are be experiencing marital issues due to the surrounding factors or factors beyond their control. These couples are looking for best practices to ensure that their marriages maintain stability.
Consequently, we target, separated or divorced couples or couples who are at the verge of divorcing or separating. We foster healing and applies methodologies that can either promote peaceful separation or restore the marriage to stability as we curb any form of violence. Lastly, we promote general healthy relationships within the community through outreach programs across all age groups. We promote peaceful coexistence within each relationship by curbing dating violence or any form of gender-based violence. Our target group falls between the age of 18-46 years.
We generally target beneficiaries from minority backgrounds who are from destitute families, broken families and low-income families living in Macon, Warner Robins, Columbus, Perry, Atlanta and surrounding areas and Middle Georgia. These families are extremely vulnerable to broken relationship and violence due to the nature of the environment that they are either brought up in or find themselves in.
Current program
We are currently running a premarital, marital, divorced and relationship program. The program’s target audience includes married couples on the verge of or who are experiencing relationship distress, single individuals with an intention to be married, victims of domestic violence, and divorced individuals who are recovering from the effects of dysfunctional relationships and negative reinforcement by their former partners. The program is led by DRS Michael and Kendra Holmes wo are certified relationship life coaches. The program entails education and experiential program for the victims of domestic violence and divorced, a community and digital media outreach.
The program applies strategies and methodologies that curb domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. We champion methodologies for creating life and relationship strategies and content that expand understanding of the tenets of a successful relationship within the society in order to curb any form of domestic or sexual violence. We conduct an education and experiential activities to foster healing and mental wellbeing to the beneficiaries and outreach on reducing sexual violence in our community.
The participants engage in activities at various locations throughout Georgia. We try to focus on the core problem causing sexual and domestic violence in our community and find a long-lasting solution to the problem. We foster healing through the utilization of proven psychological theories and scriptural concepts. We foster different support groups which can give victims an opportunity to learn from each other testimonials.
The success of our program can only be measured by the great impact that we have made in the community we serve. These include:
- Greater self-awareness and increased self-esteem.
- Improved psychological health among the couple beneficiaries
- The decreased propensity towards participating in dysfunctional relationship behaviors such as domestic violence and/or emotional, financial, or narcissistic abuse.
- Increased physical and emotional wellbeing among the victims of sexual violence
Grant Usage*
Due to the onset of Covid 19, we have been experiencing hard economic times due to the lack of aid from well-wishers and donors. Hence, this has forced the founders of the organization to utilize their own out of pocket funds to fund the organization’s expenditure. In addition, lack of funds has weakened the number of victims that we are able to reach. The grant will be used to facilitate the operating expenses of the organization as we run the program. These include staffing, supplies, rental and utility costs, program logistics and facilitation. The grant will enable us to continue with the outreach program and mentorship activities that we are already conducting to the victims of domestic and sexual violence.
Partner Collaborations – Same*
We are applying a multi-system work environment which involves working with partners that have the same goal like us. These include the law enforcement group, the sexual violence activist and the religious organization. Unlike these organizations, we not only conduct outreach on the best practices of a healthy relationship but also, we provide healing and mental wellbeing to the victims of domestic and sexual violence and promoting healthy marital relationship devoid of these.
Organization Engagement*
Our organization champions healthy relationships through engaging the community in education and experiential program for the victims of domestic violence and divorced, community outreach and digital media outreach. The program applies strategies and methodologies that curb domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking. We champion methodologies for creating life and relationship strategies and content that expand understanding of the tenets of a successful relationship within the society in order to curb any form of domestic or sexual violence within a marriage set up or in our community.
We conduct an education and experiential activities to foster healing and mental wellbeing to the beneficiaries and outreach on reducing sexual violence among in our community. We engage the victims at various locations throughout Georgia. We try to focus on the core problem causing sexual and domestic violence in our community and within the marriage set up and find a long-lasting solution to the problem. We foster healing through the utilization of proven psychological theories and scriptural concepts. We foster different support groups which can give victims an opportunity to learn from each other testimonials.
Measurement and Evaluation*
We measure the impact of the program through:
- Net promoter score survey: This include loyalty and the ability to refer someone to the program.
- Attendance: Tracked number of attendants per session
- Impact; This includes the number of saved divorced cases, number of improved relationships and change in attitude and improved mental wellbeing of the participants.
Our evaluation plan includes
- Application of evidence-based strategies in the implementation of the plan. As per the described program activities above, the program is led by relationship certified life coaches and our approach is based on evidence of what has worked and brought impact to our community.
- We also apply community participatory principles, whereby we will seek feedback and suggestions on how to improve the program quarterly.
- We hold regular team meetings to check on milestones and polish areas of weakness.
- We hold a regular community meeting to understand other arising issues that might need attention with respect to the program’s objectives.
- We work with law enforcement groups in order to ensure that the victims’ rights are upheld.
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