Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 30 Years of Service
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 30 Years of Service Annual Report 2012-13 Dear Friends, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow — this annual report commemorates our first 30 years of service, highlights “ We are proud of the our immediate impact, and outlines our plans for the next three years. We continue to help more and more individuals of all ages lead successful, self-sufficient lives in a safe, stable neighborhood and to build the capacity organization we have for Paul’s Place to be a steadfast source of sustainable support. built together and its Yesterday, we focused on developing a core set of programs to address the systemic poverty in Pigtown. Paul’s Place has grown with the community to address the increased nutritional, health, educational, and social needs of potential for the future. low-income adults and children in our community. Thousands of volunteers, staff, in-kind and financial donors You are a key part of — some involved for all three decades — built a solid foundation for Paul’s Place and fueled the expansion of our programs. our success.” Today, we still offer the essential services strategically-developed over our first 30 years; and the demand for these services endures. But today, our sights are set higher — helping our neighbors become self-sufficient. We have infused an emphasis on case-management and employability in all our programs. Today, our program staff identify individuals who repeatedly access our essential services and refer them for case management, where they develop goals and strategies to address self-sufficiency challenges. Resumé and job-application assistance is available in our computer lab. Enhanced career and leadership training is a cornerstone of our Ambassador program. A concerted effort to build relationships with adult learners in South Baltimore Learning Center’s on-site GED classes resulted in a 35% jump in retention, from 60% to 95%. And, a partnership with Goodwill Industries International adds a full range of employment services. Today, we raised $3 million for our future. “The Campaign for Paul’s Place” launched the next stage of growth in our programs to foster healthy, successful children and self-sufficient, stable families. It seeded the purchase of additional dilapidated houses to be rehabilitated as affordable housing, creating a safer, more stable neighborhood. And, The Campaign enabled renovation of our children’s program space, expansion of shower facilities, critical upgrades to our mechanical systems and kitchen drainage, and the purchase of the adjoining vacant house to build a Case-Management annex. Tomorrow, Paul’s Place will implement proven strategies and test new approaches to achieve our vision for family and neighborhood stability by 2020. Our long-range planning committee scanned the internal and external environments potentially limiting our success, organized focus groups of program participants, and visited similar organizations to create a thorough plan for the next three years that provides our roadmap. Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow — as we reflect on our impact in our first 30 years and specifically this year, we are proud of the organization we have built together and its potential for the future. You are a key part of our success. We are ever grateful for the generosity and dedication of our donors, volunteers, partners and friends. Thank you! Paul’s Place’s Mission: Paul’s Place is a catalyst and leader for change, improving the quality of life in the Washington Village/Pigtown neighborhood and the surrounding Southwest Denie Dulin William J. McLennan Baltimore communities. Paul’s Place provides programs, services and support President Executive Director that strengthen individuals and families, fostering hope, dignity, and growth. aul’s Place was founded in 1982 on practitioner to help our guests monitor their a vision to feed Baltimore’s poor and health and guide them to necessary medical homeless. We quickly grew from a mere services. This partnership has endured for P “Paul’s Place has given me “soup kitchen” to a robust organization offering 27 years, enabling the Clinic to add health services and programs that continue to evolve an opportunity to lend a counseling, flu shots, HIV testing, chronic with changing community needs. Our focus helping hand to those needing disease management, and access to low- or on helping families struggling to overcome the no-cost health care. care and assistance to reach effects of multi-generational poverty never wanes. Paul’s Place has offered an array of essential a stable status in society.” services for our neighbors over the years, including: Essential Services – JEANNIE POHLHAUS, Our first program,Hot Lunch, has remained our FORMER BOARD PRESIDENT • an overnight shelter, and breakfast in our early core program for 30 years, providing free meals years in the church hall; and access to additional services. Originally • case management and affordable housing, soup and sandwiches twice a week, this program added in the last five years; has evolved to hearty, more nutritious lunches • emergency food, utility, and eviction assistance Yesterday five days a week. Now, Hot Lunch includes two and clothing distribution for nearly 30 years. servings of fresh produce daily and introduces All of these services provide hope, dignity, new foods to help our guests develop healthy and personal growth in the face of poverty. eating habits. Programs for Children The Nurses’ Clinic was established in 1986 by Kids in Pigtown have always needed a safe a University of Maryland professor and nurse place to play. From that need, Paul’s Place created two programs for elementary children in 1984 — a Saturday morning program and a OUR Home ON WARD STReeT one-week summer camp in Baltimore County. With three homes in 30 years — a church hall, a storefront, and now our center on Ward Street Operated continuously through three Paul’s — Paul’s Place is always a welcoming, safe, Place relocations, these programs have expanded respectful environment. Our permanent home since into eight after-school and summer programs for 1996, 1118 Ward Street provides the stability to elementary children, middle school boys and develop a full spectrum of services to meet the girls, and high school students. Each is focused holistic needs of our community. 30 Years of Service on academic achievement, mentoring, and college or career preparation. 3 oday, as Paul’s Place continues to provide a safety net for our OUR GROWING Home ON WARD STReeT neighbors in need, we have developed This year’s building renovation allowed us to expand T hank you for giving “T our program capacity. Specifically, rehabilitating a new programs to help families become more neighboring, vacant Ward St. rowhouse and adding stable and self-sufficient. We’re identifying me the opportunity it to our existing façade provided the space for our families and individuals in long-term crisis and to do something good Case Management program. The space features addressing the root causes of their challenges to with my life.” private meeting areas, a small, modern kitchenette help end their cycle of distress. – cHARLES V. for healthy cooking demos, and a comfortable AMBAssADOR VOLUNTEER Employment Assistance and Case Management waiting area for guests. Job-readiness training has long been offered as one component of our Ambassador volunteer education, substance abuse recovery, mental program. Adult literacy, GED, and computer health care, and more. Most importantly, they classes added in 2007 fortified our offerings. This create a plan to achieve those goals. Our case year, Paul’s Place formalized an employment manager provides accountability and coaching Today assistance program. While new Leadership and to help the individuals adjust their plans if Career Tracks in our Ambassador program circumstances change. emphasize career planning, our case manager Affordable and Safe Housing helps adults create structure for their job search. Through two innovative partnerships, Paul’s And a partnership with Goodwill adds a full Place is turning vacant houses into affordable range of employment services, including employ- homes and helping long-time residents remain ability training, employment-barriers assessment, in the community. Habitat for Humanity of the support-services referrals, and job placement. Chesapeake has renovated or rebuilt 13 houses Adults who repeatedly access our essential purchased by Paul’s Place for working-class services are referred for Case Management, a homeowners. ReBuilding Together has repaired critical point of intervention to help families roofs, weatherized homes, eliminated safety break the cycle of poverty. In one-on-one hazards, and otherwise made 40 homes safe sessions, our licensed clinical social worker offers — at no cost to the homeowners. This project immediate remediation, counseling and referrals also converted 10 vacant lots into community for individuals in or near crisis. Together, the guest gardens tended by Pigtown residents, improving and social worker identify goals for employment, 30 Years of Service the neighborhood safety, stability and civic pride. 5 he Paul’s Place vision is laser-focused on creating family and neighborhood PAUL’S PLACE VISION Tstability by 2020. Our plan includes “Our longevity is a testimony By 2020, the individuals and families living in Southwest Baltimore City will have full access to four measurable short-term goals, building on to our ability to adapt and change high quality health care, education, employment three decades of steadfast support in our South- as community needs change. Staff and housing along with the other support west Baltimore community. The plan also allows and volunteer leaders share a necessary for stability and self-sufficiency. long-term flexibility to adjust programs and meet the changing but pressing needs of our neighbors. common vision that we are in the 3. Safe, Stable Neighborhood community for the long term.” 1. Healthy, Successful Children Fewer vacant houses, safer streets, and engaged Children will read proficiently by third grade – DAVID OROS, BOARD MEMBER AND CAMPAIGN CO-CHAIR residents will stabilize our community.