Innermission Inc

Home arp - allocates funding to aid individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

Claude street shelter - provides short-term housing (90 days maximum) for individuals and famiiles in need of emergency shelter. This program also includes assistance in locating housing and assistance with food and clothing (through our soup kitchen and dream center). The program housed 30 individuals, representing 9 families during 2024.

Thrive - a free six-month graduation program. Intensive life management, which also utilizes 10 life skill classes such as budgeting, mental health, relationship and parenting skills, job resourcing, addiction recovery and more. In 2024, 20 individuals participated and 7 graduated.

Gateway ministries - is designed to plant outreach centers by setting up local churches throughout the region. These churches will reach out to their communities with food distribution and community based events, along with networking with innermission outreach programs such as marriage helps, shelters, food pantries, soup kitchen, etc.

Christmas store - in 2024, we provided brand new toys at discounted prices ($5) for 50 families (200+ children), so families could purchase gifts for their own children and be the hero of their own christmas.

Community meal - is a program that provides food and fellowship to people in need. Our soup kitchen is open every saturday for the past 33 years. We serve a hot meal to a diverse group of people (15-30 per week), including homeless, unemployed, working poor, public assistance recipients, elderly and many with health problems and disabilities. In 2024, we served 1,149 meals and fed people 52 saturdays and gave out 3,447 bags of groceries.

Im food pantry - distributes food and clothing to familes in need. In 2024, we provided food and/or clothing to 1,971 individuals (non-duplicated), 584 families (non-duplicated) were served. Families are allowed to come in every 30 days and approximately 8,013 bags of groceries were given out.

Compassion (franklin elementary)- this year we have focused on helping individuals and families move from surviving to thriving! We have adopted a local elementary school and have partnered with the principal and faculty in order to reach students and their families. Several students have come into our asp because of this. The first day of school we gave the students pencil cases and pencils. For christmas, we provided lunch for 40 faculty members and provided presents to 260 children. They in turn have had student groups come out and do our community meal and collected food for our food pantry. We are seeing relationship built and changed lives as a result of this partnership.

Conquering marriages - is an outreach that helps facilitate conferences and clinics in the community for marriage counseling and education. We reach out to hurting families to help strengthen marriages in crisis and in turn strengthen the community.