Program areas at Winston-Salem Rescue Mission
Our life builders program is a 90-day men's residential program providing structure, discipline, accountability, recovery classes, ged and computer education, work therapy, integrated biblical counseling and spiritual guidance. This program has a 62-bed capacity at our Winston-Salem campus. During 2022-2023, 147 men were served through the program, with 91 graduating. Of those, 21 graduates went into our 1-year new life center transformers program. Additionally, 15 men went on to obtain outside employment and 8 men transferred from our program to permanent housing. 1 resident in this program attended college.
The wsrm community outreach programs impact over 5,000 individuals per year by providing free services to those in need, including food pantry, clothing closet, meals, bag lunches for the homeless, and space for free medical and dental services. Wsrm also provides holiday food boxes for those needing help during the thanksgiving season. During 2022-2023, wsrm provided a total of 296,121 meals to the community, including: Mission kitchen served 105,629 meals to program residents, and provided 29,143 meals (bag lunches) to homeless individuals; food pantry and holiday food boxes provided 100,163 meals to men, women and children (6,470 individuals). The wsrm clothing closet distributed over 4,332 pieces of clothing to 1,662 individuals. Wsrm is the host site for the samaritan clinic, which provided free medical/dental services to over 732 individuals without insurance.
The new life center transformers program is a one-year men's residential program providing structure, discipline, accountability, recovery classes, additional case management, work therapy, integrated biblical counseling and spiritual guidance services for selected graduates of our 90-day program. Life skills, career development, and other educational opportunities are also offered in this program, including classes towards ged completion, computer education and college courses. This program has a 32-bed capacity at our Winston-Salem campus. During 2022-2023, 38 men were served through this program, with 7 graduating. Additionally, 5 went on to obtain outside employment and 5 transferred from our program to permanent housing. 3 residents in this program attended college or received advanced certification.