The Dove centre was established in April, 1993, by a group of community leaders, citizens, and business owners. Some of the prominent organizations that came up with this establishment include the office of the county commissioner, department of human services, and the city council members. The organization is owned by a board of trustees. This paper outlines the kind of services offered by the Dove agency, how it helps women who are abused and the type of degree requirements to work within the agency.
The Dove centre was constructed with contributions from the community. Land was provided by the St. George City (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). This establishment and other associated service provisions that were originally located in their city, were established to provide outreach, counselling for people who are victims of different circumstances, or were victimised long time ago and are currently in need of the services, and advocacy.
The Dove outreach centre is an organization established to build a community of peace in one family, one person, and each home at a time. Their mission is ensuring that peace reigns within the community. They strive to keep up to their mission by ensuring that they provide safe, good and confidential shelter, support and advocacy for the victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. They also ensure that they reduce incidents of abuse to both young and old population who do not access education. The Dove centre has two facilities found Saint George City. One of these facilities is designed to provide safe shelter for children and women who are exposed and vulnerable because of their special needs. This group of people need to escape from an unsafe home, currently known as the Dove house.
This house is licensed and approved to comfortably accommodate twenty four children and women. It is approximately four thousand square feet, contains six bedrooms, each of them having four beds, full kitchen, full baths and a single half bath, two laundry facilities, living area, outdoor and indoor play area, group room, and a covered outdoor seating. The handicapped groups can easily access one bath and two bedrooms. There is a case management and counselling located within the shelter to provide a twenty four hour advocacy (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). The structure also contains a storage room for donation. Dove centre has made an effort and continued to provide safe and confidential shelter. They also provide a certain level of outreach needs and services to victims of sexual and domestic violence, since it was opened fifteen years ago.
Community collaborations and service provisions has increased positively over the past years in order to in order to provide the most needed help by the community and the required resources to facilitate possible creation of safe and self independence. For the past few years, the board of trustees had a meeting and came up with a conclusion that it was necessary to build a separate facility which took care of victims of sexual and domestic oppression, who weren’t in great need for safe shelter. This facility, therefore, was able to provide services like rape recovery advocacy, facilitation of free counselling, consultation and prevention of young and adult education, community training and education, support groups, and youth programs.
This centre believes in providing the community an opportunity to help those at the lowest level. In the current days with the hard economic times, a lot of services are required for children and women in the community, and, therefore, the much needed funds to cater for all these needs are not easy to come by. The Dove centre is well recognised private non-profit organization. It is partially funded state, private, and federal grants. This centre relies on at least twenty five percent o its total funding to come from contributions by organizations, businesses, and individuals within the community.
In the Macon Rescue mission, came as a result of the mystery that was surrounding the Macon region. There was a highly registered number of homelessness, and there was a high struggle to be acknowledged by the community at large. The community therefore had to come up with something in order to help the homeless people to be thwarted by the overlying public inertia.
Women who are abused are assisted in many ways by the Dove community. In the current society, women face a variety of violations including sexual harassment, gender discrimination to some level, violation, and discrimination at work places. This organization ensures that all the needs of women are met (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). First, they provide medical services to women. For cases of sexual harassment, there are situations where the condition is always serious where before a legal report is even made, medication should be sort immediately. The Dove centre ensures that all this medication is accessed by the affected woman, and that all her medical expenses are settled. Secondly, legal procedures are initiated in order to bring to book the people who violate women sexually. Psychological treatment and counselling is also offered to them to ensure that they overcome the trauma that comes along this violation, and therefore, ensure that their life is back on track. Gender discrimination at work and other public places is also considered a serious offence and when this happens, the Dove centre ensures that follow ups are made and the legal procedures are followed until the respective woman involved gets justice.
This facility was created in order to enhance peace and ensure that all the needy people in the community are taken care of. It ensures that women who are violated in their own homes, sexually, at work places, and in the public, are assisted so that their needs are met, using the law (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). It takes care of orphans to ensure that they meet all the basic need. They are taken to school and access education at all levels until they are older enough to take care of their own needs. Taking care of the homeless population is also a major role performed by this movement. Being of a spiritual nature, the Dove centre ensures that the community is spiritually and morally upright. This is therefore, a clear indication that the major goal of this organization is to ensure that they approximately meet all the demands of the community. By doing this, they help to achieve a good life within the community where crime rates and theft cases are minimized (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). It therefore, does not qualify to be a profit organization. This movement relies on funds from the government, individuals, and organizations, only to run their programs within the organization smoothly. They do not collect this money with an aim of making a profit. They are therefore, a non-profit organization who has an interest of bettering people’s lives and improving peace within the society.
In order to work in this centre, any university degree would do. This is because, the main skill which is required is to have high interpersonal relation skills, in order to relate and interact well with people you meet. The organization needs those types of individuals who are ready to work for their society without complaining, with the aim of helping the needy whole heartedly.
People in the community are faced with different problems on individual basis. Coming up with this movement and successfully initiating the program was one of the most influencial moves. It had a great impact on the community. Many children who had lost hope of getting educated saw some light ahead after being supported to study by the organization. Levels of crime were greatly cut by a big number, because people were in a position to access their basic requirements, especially the poor population who were not in a position to sustain them. The level of violation of women and children’s rights also minimized (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). People were afraid of the law that came along with such violation charges, in the end reducing some of the problems women suffered. Infant and adult mortality rates were also reduced to the minimal level. In offering good medication, people were now able to access treatment and medicines which they could not afford on their own. Even know there are financial challenges experienced along the fight of helping the community grow and spreading peace within it at the same time, the Dove centre can be considered as one of the most influential social organizations that have had the most effective moves to the society.
Recently, the Rescue mission has celebrated fourteen new graduates who have successfully completed their program. Eight graduates came from the Men’s recovery and six others from the Dove centre program. The Men’s recovery program is targeted to the men who have issues of poverty, homelessness, or even addiction. It is a twelve month residential program which is Christ centred (Macon Rescue Mission, 2014). The Dove centre is program for women and children who are victims of domestic violence. It is a six month recovery program directed at them to ensure that they are fully recovered from the trauma they experience. All this are current efforts of the Dove centre to take care of men, women, and children, in new and creative ways such as introducing learning programs. Recent efforts of the Dove centre include sponsoring of Mazda Kevin, a Five Star Brown Celebrity Classic, by making a contribution of ten million dollars to support the Macon Rescue Mission. This sponsorship came along with help and support of rehabilitating homelessness, domestic violence, addiction, and poverty affected individuals.
References
Homeless Shelter Macon GA, Domestic Violence | Macon Rescue Mission. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.maconrescuemission.com
