We work diligently to address the current suffering of the homeless and the deprived through shelters, soup kitchens, clothes closets, community centers and other services as the needs may arise. We believe that we must seek to address the original causes and systemic frameworks that allow poverty and crime rates to exist and escalate. However, before we can turn our attention to prevention or transitional assistance, we must seek to address the current needs of deprived and denigrated individuals and neighborhoods. To this end we seek to remedy the physical and material needs of others through establishing or cooperating with existing soup kitchens, clothes closets, homeless shelters and other social services. We have no desire to “reinvent the wheel”. We do want to find areas where there are needs and then work to provide measurable solutions.
Our Second Mission Objective: Change.
We offer aid to those who have been the victims of bad circumstances and/or those who have made poor choices in the past but who desire to change, by counseling, teaching and mentoring them into a more positive lifestyle as functional, healthy members of society.
Recent ex-convicts, the homeless and the chronically unemployed all require social services and relationships that offer comprehensive professional care, stability and transformative mentoring.
The transitional work program is designed to teach new job skills to individuals in need of work, while simultaneously mentoring them for a transition out of vagrancy and crime into a life of productivity and responsibility. We also hope to build a transitional home that will provide support for men who have made poor choices in the past (ranging from criminal activity to chronic unemployment), but who desire a comprehensive change in the way they think, behave, and interact with others.
Our Third Mission Objective: Prevent.
We want to do everything possible to prevent the spread of poverty, crime and gang-related activities through community involvement, teaching and mentoring.
In order to prevent identifiable rises in poverty and crime rates within the Quincy community, we believe we must work closely with the Quincy Police Department and many community groups that are already seeking to address these difficulties. We do not believe that we can single-handedly solve this cluster of issues; however, we do believe that we have a role to play as a part of the group effort. Specifically, we would like to work with the community in two ways: (1) We would like to teach deprived and denigrated members of the community how to better care for themselves and their families; and, (2) We desire to work with area children and youth in after-school and summer programs to provide children with an alternative to gangs or other crime-related activities. A big part of this effort will be reaching out to entire families through programs that coincide with the provision of evening meals.