South Side Mission New Promise Center

Program Mission Statement:

(self-reported)

The mission of the New Promise Center is to change the lives of homeless women through a comprehensive program that provides physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care within a long term residential program.

Score Summary

Overall Score:	Excellent
Practice Principles:	Excellent
Faith Related Elements:	Excellent
Outcome Measures:	Excellent
Change Process:	Good

Program Facts

• Paid (FTE) Staff Working: 8
• Program Participants Last Year: 798
• Meets about 30 time(s) with each participant per month
• Participants remain in the program for 3 months

Board Activities

Funding Overview

(self-reported)

	This Program	This Organization
Organization Budget: $2,900,000 Program Budget: $241,000
Foundation Grants	1%	1%
Government Grants/Contracts	0%	0%
Individual Gifts	83%	83%
Business/Corporate Gifts	9%	9%
Congregation/Denominational Gifts	7%	7%
Dues/Fees/Income	0%	0%
Other	0%	0%
	Average Program Funding From All Samaritan Programs	Average Organization Funding From All Samaritan Organizations
The next charts display the average funding sources for all programs currently in the Samaritan Guide for your comparison. Average Organization Budget: $3,820,907 Average Program Budget: $417,789
Foundation Grants	19%	18%
Government Grants/Contracts	6%	8%
Individual Gifts	37%	33%
Business/Corporate Gifts	9%	8%
Congregation/Denominational Gifts	10%	10%
Dues/Fees/Income	8%	9%
Other	9%	11%

It is important to maintain diverse income sources for your programs and for your oganization as a whole. Doing so provides long-term financial stability to your organizations and programs. It is also important to note that government funding often comes with stipulations and restrictions. More information is available in the Raising Resources Toolkit - pdf.

Score Details

Program Focus
Program Mission	Clarity and specificity of the program's mission statement.	Excellent
Target Population	Clarity and specificity of the programs target clientele.	Excellent
Eligibility Criteria	Clarity and specificity of the program's eligibility criteria.	Excellent
Program Requirements	Well defined requirements for client participation.	Excellent
Referrals From Other Organizations	Do other organizations recommend this program to their clientele.	Good
Referrals to Other Organizations	Does this program recommend other programs to their clients?	Better
Volunteer to Staff Ratio	Are volunteers effectively incorporated into the program?	Good
Past Participant Recruiting	Are past program participants recruited as volunteers?	Better
Evaluation and Practice Princples
Practice Principles	How supports and resources are provided to increase outcomes.	Excellent
Outcome Measurement	The ability to measure stated program outcomes.	Excellent
Change Process	Specific and measurable statement of the program's goals.	Good
Faith Related Elements	Integration of faith related elements.	Excellent
Measurement Frequency	Frequency of measuring client outcomes.	Excellent
Program Evaluation	Level of the budget allocated to measuring client outcomes.	Excellent
Institutional Stability
Organization Age	A measure of the organization's durability.	Excellent
Board Oversight	How involved in the program are the members of its board?	Excellent
Program Duration	Average duration of a clients participation with a program.	Good
Finances
Budget Diffusion	Diversity of the programs funding sources.	Good
Government Funding	Does this program accept little or no government funding?	Excellent

Program Score Details

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Outcomes & Measures:

(self-reported)

Scoring for this section is based on the organizations ability to provide at least three clear and specific outcomes with corresponding measures in which a relationship is shown between outcomes and measures.

Outcome 1: Many women make a commitment or recommitment to living for God and come to a saving knowledge of and relationship with Jesus Christ.

Measure Used:
• Number of clients who personally share this decision with their caseworker. Each commitment decision is recorded and reported monthly.

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Outcome 2: New Promise Center residents often gain meaningful employment appropriate to her goals, skill level, training, and potential.

Measure Used:
• The number of clients who get and maintain employment during their stay. Discussed and planned with the case manager, each lady is encouraged to realistically plan for her future while striving for secure employment.

• Meeting the employment or education goal is a condition of advancing into the second phase of our program.

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Outcome 3: Residents of the New Promise Center set and reach educational goals unique to each woman and her situation.

Measure Used:
• The number of residents working with Peoria Jobs Partnership, where our ladies gain resume writing skills, interview techniques, and employment training; making them more attractive to the community's businesses.

• The number of residents using on-site GED class and volunteer tutors that are offered to get the ladies on track for learning.

• The number of clients enrolled in our twelve week on-site Culinary Arts Training School which offers our residents a great opportunity for a career in the restaurant/hospitality industry.

• Number of residents who enroll in area colleges.

• Meeting the education or employment goal is a condition of advancing into the second phase of our program.

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Outcome 4: Residents secure safe and affordable housing appropriate to their budget and special needs.

Measure Used:
• Number of residents referred to:

o Peoria and Tazewell Housing Authority for low cost independent living

o YMCA for low cost housing for single/single parent and/or women with mental health challenges or physical limitations

o YMCA and Salvation Army for families with an older male.

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Outcome 5: New Promise Center residents and their children are referred and aligned with the appropriate public and private social services offering assistance to meet established goals of employment, education, health care, and improved parenting.

Measure Used:
• Employment goals are measured by number of residents referred to:

o Workforce Network for job training;

o Peoria Jobs Partnership for work skills;

o Goodwill Industries for computer skills

• Education goals are measured by number of residents referred to:

o GED classes (on-site);

o Culinary Arts Training School, (on-site);

o Peoria Public Schools;

o Illinois Central College;

o Midstate College;

o Bradley University.

• Healthcare goals are measured by number of residents referred to:

o Heartland Clinic for medical care (on-site);

o Bradley University nursing students for evaluation (on-site);

o Registered Nurse for clinical evaluation (on-site);

o Cross Roads and White Oaks for addiction issues;

o University of Illinois School of Medicine for HIV awareness, education and screening (offered on-site);

o Human Service Center for public psychiatric and addiction evaluation and care;

o The Antioch Group for private psychiatric evaluation and care;

o Area hospitals for urgent and chronic medical care as needed.

• Improved parenting goals are measured by number of residents referred to:

o Family to Family, a DCFS regulated class to lead parents through the court systems and requirements to regain custody of children removed from the home by the courts (on-site);

o Family Choices for Learning, in partnership with Peoria Public Schools; offering evaluation and intervention for moms and children birth-three years old (on-site);o King's Kids for childcare and on-site staff and volunteer mentoring; (on-site);

o Strengthening Families where parents and at risk kids come together for parenting instruction, role playing, and positive alternatives (on-site);

o Boys and Girls Clubs for age appropriate activities and parenting and anger management classes;

o Crittendon Crisis Nursery to intervene in emergency and urgent situations and for parenting classes to avoid those urgent needs in the future;

o Center for Prevention of Abuse, facilitating counseling for families with abuse or violence in the home, toward either mother or child;

o Working with Department of Children and Family Services for family reconciliation when appropriate.

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Change Process:

(self-reported)

Scoring for this section is based on the organizations ability to provide clear, measurable, client-focused stages of change based on participant participation.

Our former residents say it best: “When I came to South Side Mission, I didn't know how to eat right, how to talk right, I didn't want to get up for Mission at Prayer; but the Mission showed me. The Mission gave me God, whatever had something to do with God, I was there. I had a hunger and a thirst for His righteousness,” ~Willette, former New Promise Center resident and drug addict, now married and a full time evangelist.

“When I landed at the South Side Mission in 2004, I had been incarcerated, I was addicted to drugs, and I had lost all of my family as I knew it: my parents had been robbed and murdered by my sixteen year old son...[The New Promise Center] began filling me with hope, and I desperately needed to be able to hope, and along with that hope, I started to have faith that what they were telling me was real,”~Karen, former New Promise Center resident, now a homeowner and New Promise Center volunteer.

The changes that occur in the New Promise Center are big and small; it is the small comfort of a hot meal and the immense promise of Jesus; rebuilt relationships and a re-invented self image. We partner with many public and private agencies and we adhere to strict professional and moral standards, but the New Promise Center achieves results because this program is not only meant for repair, but for the restoration freely given by God.

End Notes

Incomplete Applications

Significant decreases in certain scores may indicate failure to comprehensively complete certain sections of the Samaritan Award application. Please be sure to fill out every question in the Samaritan Award application.

Relative Scoring

Total program scores are partially computed against other programs from within the same pool of applications and so are not cumulative.

Additional Reference Material

More information on scoring and methodology may be found on the Samaritan Guide and Award website.

Acton Institute Relationship

The Samaritan Guide and Samaritan Award are projects run by the Acton Institute. Inclusion in the Guide does not signify endorsement by the Acton Institute. More information on why the Acton Institute runs this project is available online.