the next door
Helping Women in Crisis
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he Next Door, a nonprofit organization operating in Nashville, Chattanooga, and Knoxville, serves women in crisis. Next Door Knoxville’s Residential Transitional Center offers a six-month structured curriculum to help women who have been incarcerated re-enter society. The center provides transitional housing, recovery support, counseling, workforce development, case management, and family education and reunification. The end goal is for these women to become independent, productive, and successful members of society.
| thenextdoor.org
| info@thenextdoor.org
Knox Furniture Ministry Hope. Dignity. Stability.
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he Knox Furniture Ministry is a coalition of churches and nonprofit agencies working together to ensure families with needs have a bed to sleep in, a chair to sit on, and a table from which to eat. The ministry is located in Powell and depends solely on volunteers and monetary/furniture donations to bring stability and dignity to those in crises or in transition from homelessness.
bridge refugee services
From Despair to Dignity
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ridge Refugee Services provides opportunities for refugees in the Knoxville and Chattanooga areas to rebuild their lives after suffering persecution, so they may become productive, contributing members society. Bridge provides basic needs services, employment and health case management, in-house English classes, and limited financial support. They are a referral source, a “Bridge,� to other service providers such as health care, schools, and counseling. | bridgerefugees.org | swalton@bridgerefugees.org
| knoxfurnitureministry.org | knoxfurnitureministry@gmail.com
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