Love Inc Of Brevard Inc

Investing in Clients: The heartbeat of our organization is our life transformation pipeline for low-income residents of our community who come to us seeking a hand-up. Over the past 22 years we have built a community-wide partnership network that includes 71 churches, 51 nonprofit organizations, 22 businesses, and 3 government agencies. We leverage the collective power of this network to remove obstacles facing our clients so that they can truly transform their lives. Everything begins with a call. When people experiencing need call Love INC we perform a client-intake and then we match them with a trained, volunteer mentor who calls them every week to check-in, create an action plan, and provide gentle accountability around mutually-agreed-upon goals. As trust grows between the client and the mentor, the mentor learns what the client needs, and then activates our vast partnership network to meet their needs. As the clients stabilize, we encourage them to participate in our life skills curriculum, which includes 8-week courses in subjects such as personal finance, employment, parenting, health and nutrition, and healing from trauma. When all is said and done, we seek to transform people from consumers of programs to contributors toward the greater good of our community.

The Church Mobilized: Too often, churches don't know how to help our community, and so Love INC provides a structured and coordinated way for churches from across denominational lines to work together to help people experiencing need. Love INC vets each need, and then we mobilize churches to get involved in the lives of people in our community. This can look many different ways, and it includes group service projects, donating vehicles to people in need, contributing supplies to a community-wide personal care pantry which provides goods often lacking from food pantries (soaps, detergents, paper towels, shampoo, feminine hygiene products), rallying churches to serve the homeless, and coordinating churches to bless local schools.

Transform Community: We bring business, nonprofit, government, and church leaders together in order to tackle major problems in our community such as the shortage of attainable housing, predatory lending, the need for greater support around our foster care system, our need for cold night shelters, human trafficking, and domestic violence. By leveraging the power of our community, we facilitate systemic changes that shape our community into a better place for all people. Our position of influence in the community allows us to bring together missionally-aligned organizations and individuals to create solutions to some of our community's biggest problems. Several recent successes on the community-level have been the creation of cold night shelters in several cities, the creation of a foster care support network, and the creation of a 24/7 crisis hotline for ministry leaders experiencing crisis.