COMPLEMENTARY PROJECT
David’s Courage is a non-profit and located on Lincoln Highway in Plymouth. It originated as a result of a partnership with Marshall County, which deeded the building (once known as the Shady Rest home) to David’s Courage. It also involves a partnership with Marshall County Community Foundation and the United Way, which have provided financial support and fundraising support.
community service, work through a twelve-step program, take life-skill classes, attend to daily chores, transition into the workforce, partner in a mentorship, and heal relationships with family through counseling. All of these do not only work on healing abuse issues faced by each resident, but they focus on healing the entire person. They work towards that long-lasting healing that is so crucial for all involved.
David’s Courage is a faith-based drug and alcohol transitional home for men and women. We are seeking to provide a safe and caring environment that is conducive to recovery and change. There are many transitional homes around the country for men and women. David’s Courage however, will be the first transitional home in Marshall County. It will have a lasting impact on each man and woman that walks through our doors, and in return, it will have a lasting impact on each family, and the county as a whole.
Outcome Measures The outcome of David’s Courage is to help each resident become a productive, trustworthy, taxpaying citizen. They will have worked through spiritual, emotional, physical, and financial healing while in our program. Upon leaving the doors of David’s Courage, they will have the tools, resources, skills, and confidence to resist
temptations and triggers that might lead them to fall back into previous habits and addictions. The mentorship will continue and lead to weekly communication and encouragement, even after leaving David’s Courage, ensuring that they are not alone in continuing the fight for freedom from addiction. Through David’s Courage, we are seeking a long-lasting healing. Marshall County itself will see specific outcomes such as lower inmate counts, resulting in lower costs for the jail, and lower costs for taxpayers. Not only this, but David’s Courage is aiming to see less drug- and alcohol-related accidents and deaths, lower rates of disease transmission, less broken families, and less addiction overall. Again, we will heal each resident, which will heal families and the community as a whole.
Implementation By creating a transitional home for men and women dealing with drug and alcohol abuse issues, we will work with them through the entire recovery process. Our board of directors, as well as therapists, a clinical secretary, medical supervisors, technicians, 24-hour staff, nutritionists, and residents will all make up the team that will make David’s Courage a possibility. Over the course of nine to twelve months, each resident will be required to attend therapy, participate in QUALITY OF OUR ECONOMY HEALTH & WELLNESS
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