ALL OF OUR SERVICES ARE PROVIDED COMPLETELY FREE OF CHARGE TO ANYONE WHO COMES TO OUR DOORS. Bridgeport Rescue Mission (BRM) is a 501(c)(3) faith-based, nonprofit organization established in 1993 to respond to the needs of the working poor and homeless in coastal Fairfield County. The Mission started on the East side of Bridgeport feeding hungry neighbors out of a station wagon and today, BRM operates four campuses and two Mobile Kitchens. Our mission is to demonstrate the love of God as we embrace the urban poor and addicted, offering hope and healing for a changed life. Our vision is to excel in providing food, shelter, clothing, educational opportunities, and job training to all, regardless of faith, ethnicity, or economic status. We fight poverty from the inside out by providing a place of hope and dignity as we feed the hungry, clothe the needy, shelter the homeless, and restore the addicted. Bridgeport Rescue Mission provides essential services and life-changing residential recovery programs to economically and socially disenfranchised individuals so they can become self-sufficient, contributing members of our community. BRM is committed to meeting the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of impoverished and homeless individuals who are experiencing a short- or long-term crisis. BRM’s programs are designed to address the problems linked to poverty, homelessness, trauma and substance abuse, which are often preceded by issues related to lack of education, dysfunctional family history, economic stress, domestic abuse, lack of employable job skills, and no life purpose. The Mission reaches out to ALL men, women, and children, regardless of race, ethnicity, creed or economic status, providing all services and programs free of charge. S U M M A R Y O F P R O G R A M S Food Outreach Program: Bridgeport Rescue Mission is the largest provider of food assistance in Coastal Fairfield County (Bridgeport and South Norwalk) and provides more than 560,000 meals a year to the working poor and homeless in our community. This includes: • Breakfast, lunch and dinner served in the Mission’s Main Campus dining room; more than 375 meals daily • Two Mobile Kitchens that visit 9 sites weekly in Bridgeport and South Norwalk providing between 100 and 150 meals at each site to low-income families. • Pantry (free grocery store) open five days a week for impoverished and food insecure families. Annually provides over 19,000 non-perishable food bags and access to a vast selection of fresh produce and dairy products. • The Mission’s Great ThanksGiving Project provides over 3,200 families with a frozen turkey and bag of fixings so that each family can prepare their own Thanksgiving meal. A warm winter coat is also given to each family member, along with winter hats, scarves and gloves. • BRM also provides 360 children participating in South Norwalk’s Summer Meals program, breakfast and a home-made bagged lunch for 9 weeks each summer since 2009 and partners with Urban Impact’s youth mentorship program XLR8 to provide 2,600 warm dinners to kids annually. Emergency Shelters for Men, Women, and Mothers with Children • Annually provide more than 37,960 nights of shelter along with a hot meal, clean clothes and a warm bed to men, women and children in three separate facilities. The Guest House for Women & Children Provides clean, safe room and board to homeless moms with young children. The highly skilled Guest House staff provides case management, counseling, and job and life skills to the moms, and case management for the children’s health and educational needs. New Life Residential Addiction Program • BRM has two separate campuses that offer a 6-12 month long New Life residential addiction recovery program that utilizes a body-mind-spirit recovery model. The New Life program includes life and job skills to help empower long-term sobriety. Supportive Housing Program The Supportive Housing Program provides room and board along with case and recovery management to help individuals new in sobriety continue in their transition to educational goals and finding full-time employment.