Areas of Focus: Maternal and child health, Economic and community development
Activity Type:
Community Development: General
Summary: Counseling for homeless school-aged children in Dallas, Texas
Exodus Ministries is a 501(c)(3) which provides a 12-month long intensive, comprehensive, residential program for formerly incarcerated mothers reuniting with their children. All of the families qualify for homeless services. The children come to Exodus with emotional pain and wounds resulting from a chaotic past and the absence of a father in their lives. We provide Christian counseling to the school-aged children in the program to help them overcome the anger and emotional pain they experience. Left unaddressed, the anger they experience is the fertile soil in which to grow a criminal mentality, thereby repeating the generational patterns of their parents and grandparents. Exodus Ministries receives moms and kids at all times of the year from prison and drug rehab. The funds, if awarded, will be put to use immediately to address the needs of our current child residents and we will steward the funds well to make them go as far as possible. Because counselors are licensed, it is unlikely any members of the Club will be able to participate directly in the rendition of services, however, club members could certainly serve as mentors to the children during their stay at Exodus Ministries.
Signed
This project is "Signed". This means that the signatures from the club leadership have been collected. This project is now being reviewed by the district leadership for approval. Once a decision is made, the status of the project will be changed to "Approved".
Project listed for the 2017-18 Rotary Year.
Proposed Financing
Existing Contributions Towards This Project
Date
Cash
DDF
Total
Dallas North (5810)
10-Mar-18
$2,500
$11,900
$14,400
Total
$2,500
$11,900
$14,400
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History Log Entries
10-Mar-18
System Entry
System Entry: Creation of project page.
13-Mar-18
by Douglas Dunn
System Entry: Project sent for club signatures.
13-Mar-18
by Douglas Dunn
System Entry: Project signed by Douglas Dunn.
31-May-18
by Douglas Dunn
Exodus Ministries continues to provide counseling to school aged children on a weekly basis. That routine is in place and will continue as long as there are funds and children at Exodus Ministries who need counseling to help them overcome the trauma and abandonment of the past.
2-Aug-18
by Douglas Dunn
The project providing counseling for homeless children through our program continues with a licensed counselor from Christian Works providing those services. We currently have four (4) children involved in weekly counseling sessions, but that number is subject to change with the addition of children to the Exodus Ministries program.
8-Nov-18
by Douglas Dunn
The need for counseling for the homeless children who reside with their mothers at Exodus Ministries continue. Currently, we have seven (7) school-aged children who are in need of counseling. Because grants have not been received for the payment of the counseling services required, funds are being diverted from other budget categories to see that the children receive all of the help possible to deal with the trauma and chaos they have experienced including, without limitation, sexual abuse and neglect. Funds for counseling will bring the children closer to wholeness upon completing the program at Exodus Ministries and enhance the likelihood of success going forward.
16-Feb-19
by Douglas Dunn
The project is ongoing. Currently, there are four (4) school-aged children receiving counseling on a weekly basis. The number of children receiving counseling changes with the change in the women in the program and the number of school-aged children living with them. Our current partnership with Children Works provides the children with consistent, appropriate counseling services to this very needy population.
16-May-19
by Douglas Dunn
The project continues with services being rendered to our school-aged children by a Licensed Professional Counselor on a weekly basis. As expected, progress is slow but steady, with the expectation the children will be in a better emotional and psychological state when they and their mothers complete the Exodus Ministries program.
2-Aug-19
by Douglas Dunn
School-aged children coming to the Exodus Ministries program with their mothers continue to need counseling to help them deal with their past and to prepare them for the future. We continue to see changes in the children to whom the counseling services are provided in their attitudes, behaviors and dispositions. The need for funds to continue providing the essential counseling services to the children has not abated.
18-Nov-19
by Douglas Dunn
The project for which the grant proposal was submitted is ongoing. As long as there are children at Exodus Ministries, the need will continue since all of the children at Exodus carry with them the ravages of a dysfunctional family of origin, chaos, and, unfortunately, in some cases abuse. Without addressing the mental health issues faced by the children, they are destined to inflict the same dysfunction and chaos on their own children and perpetuate the generational crime and substance abuse.
16-Apr-20
by Douglas Dunn
The resources awarded in 2019 to Exodus Ministries by the Preston Center Rotary Club to provide counseling to homeless children has long since been spent on those counseling services, and other funds from other resources have been employed to cover the counseling costs over and above those which were cover by the Preston Center Rotary Club.
