The Gift Of A Helping Hand Charitable Trust

Contact: Program Director

17148 Waltham, Detroit, MI 48205

Website: http://www.tgoahhct.org

E-mail: tgoahh@hotmail.com

Tax ID: #38-3640111

Shelter Mission

The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter will eliminate homelessness and domestic violence one shelter at a time. We will provide the homeless with the valuable resources, assistances, support groups and opportunities needed to help them to become self-sufficient, self-reliant and living productive and abusive free lifestyle.

Advocacy Philosophy

Domestic violence against women must stop. Let us end the violence, afford battered women and help safeguard them against future abuse, mandate restitution and offer resources for independent, violence-free living.

The search for freedom from domestic violence is often a long and arduous process and it cannot occur until battering and terrorism cease. Even then, it is obstructed unless the battered woman can achieve autonomy and self-determination. Please help us continue our fight against domestic violence against women. With your support we can continue fight against domestic violence against women.

The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter will provide housing for the 60% of homeless single mothers with children and the 39% of homeless single mothers with children leaving out of domestic violence situations in southeastern Michigan.

There is a greater demand now more than ever to provide housing for the homeless constituency because these individuals needs a mailing address in order to be able to apply for a job, job training, educational training and other human services assistance that will help them to become self-sufficient and self-reliant.

While making available housing for the homeless constituency and giving them the opportunity to have access to a telephone, mailing address, day-care services and job referral opportunities will help us toward our goal of eliminating homelessness in southeastern Michigan, while in the long-term making our project and the issues of homelessness we are addressing a success.

Our program promotes diversity and economic self-sufficiency through workforce initiatives. The program will provide resources for our clients to domestic violence support groups, classes and other valuable human services programs. The program will make available outreach programs for the children residing in the shelter such as after school programs and activities.

Nearly 1 million people are homeless on any given night. Most homeless families who received needed services like substance abuse treatment, education and job training, stop being homeless. Homelessness is a condition that we have the power to end. Nevertheless, on any given night in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan 50,000 individuals and families are homeless. Sixty-percent of the homeless constituency are single mothers with children and twenty-one percent of adults employed in the United States are victims of domestic violence's (65% female, 35% male).
Domestic violence in the single greatest cause to injury to women ages 15 to 44 in the United States. In metropolitan Detroit, Michigan 0.2 percent of the cases are domestic violence's and 0.4% of the cases are chronic.

However, only 1,995 emergency shelter beds exist to serve this population and many individuals and families are turn away every night because the homeless shelter facilities are fill to their capacity. Twenty-three percent of shelter guest are a child who enter the shelter with their families in metropolitan Detroit, Michigan and other Wayne counties. So we seek your support in helping us to complete The Gift Of A Helping Hand Emergency Shelter, so we can provide housing for the homeless single mothers with children.

Sincerely,

Cathy P. Russell

  In Haiti, the needs are great and the resources are few. In 2000, The Haiti Connection organized to build coalitions; offer opportunities for collaborative educational, medical, and spiritual projects; and to provide information about the resources available to non-profits and NGOs. Our web site is one of the largest directories of resources for groups who work in Haiti. Each month we answer hundreds of e-mail requests for referrals, some for ill or injured children. Associates realized health care organizations often did not know what services each provided or where. There was no directory of the groups. Some services were duplicated while many areas had little health care.

  There was/is a need for increased communication. In the past year, directors of the Association Medicale Haitienne, Catholic Medical Mission Board, Episcopal Diocese of Haiti, World Relief, International Child Care, Management Sciences for Health , The Haiti Connection, and other groups, priortized needs, provided ideas for solutions, and offered advice on how to initiate the solutions.                  

  The Connection will establish a Haiti Health Coalition web site directory of over 1,000 health care organizations, cross referenced for the name, their specialty, and location where they work in Haiti. The Connection will add hundreds of additional resporces to its web site, that will be linked to the Health Coalition site. The resources will include educational materials for clinications and patients, best practices to establish clinics and build hospitals, and contacts to get medical supplies and equiptment. We will establish a referral network for children with burns, club feet, cleft lips and palates. Medical specialists will provide opportunites to use their expertise and to "show one, do one, teach one".

  The Haiti Connection is the primary contact for the Haiti Health Coalition's 10-15 member advisory group that will communicate via e-mail to exchange ideas. In  January 2009, we will began a seris of meetings in Haiti to present each group's projects and plans. The meetings will generate additional ideas and plans. We will co-sponsor an annual conference to provide opportunities for continuing medical education, collaboration on projects, and short courses on administration and program plans.