REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC
Life-saving. Life-sustaining. Life-restoring.
Mission
Our Mission: To combat homelessness by providing life-saving, life-sustaining, and life-restoring programs. Our Vision: An inclusive society whose members all have adequate food, housing, health care, a support system, literacy, and an empowered voice.
Ruling year
1991
Executive Director
Rev. James W West Jr.
Main address
PO Box 05648
Milwaukee, WI 53205 USA
EIN
39-1707495
NTEE code
Homeless Services/Centers (P85)
Temporary Shelter For the Homeless (L41)
Health Support Services (E60)
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
The Problem: Homelessness How do we combat it? The reasons for homelessness are as varied as the number of homeless people in Milwaukee. That is, no two stories are alike, and a "one size fits all" solution to homelessness is nonexistent. What helps one person may not help another. For example, making sure all the homeless have enough to eat doesn't address the fact that that they have no home. However, how can we expect them to maintain a job if they are hungry all the time? It's wonderful to assist someone in finding a job, but what good does that interview do if they have no insulin? What about those with AODA issues or mental issues? What good is earning money if you're unable to manage it? At Repairers of the Breach, we believe the best way to fight homelessness is to offer life-saving, life-sustaining, and life-restoring programs and services, so that our Members (the homeless and at-risk) can work towards self-reliability. We simply must address this from all angles.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Refuge & Resource Center
This primary program offers shelter from frigid winters and sweltering summers during the daytime, when nighttime shelters are closed. Our emergency warming room is also open overnights, when the temp is degrees or below.
Many partners, such as Mohela and Impact 2-1-1 visit our center to assist the Members (homeless and at-risk) with resources.
This program also offers showers and hygiene products, clothing, lockers, computer access, mail service, phone service, Art Therapy, Peace Garden, and more.
Our Breach Cafe, which offers hearty lunches and bag lunch for the working homeless, continental breakfast and coffee, and snacks, is located inside our center as well.
Our employment assistance program and literacy program are also run from our center, and our center also offers a respite room and sanctuary.
Alumni Association
ROTB maintains ties with formerly homeless graduates, keeping them connected and involved with positive people and activities, remaining sober, healthy and housed. Many Alumni return to our center to participate in activities and to volunteer. Others provide public testimony about the realities of the homeless experience through our Speakers Bureau. Alumni are also eligible to receive household furnishings through this program.
Speakers Bureau
Our Speakers Bureau gives a voice to the voiceless by allowing Members and Alumni to provide powerful testimony about their plight. The typical result is a breakdown of negative stereotypes and a healing of the breach between the poor and the prosperous, the “haves” and the “have nots.”
We speak to groups small and large--to students of all ages, civic groups, business associations, churches/synagogues/temples/mosques, corporate gatherings, and so forth.
Where we work
Awards
Best of Milwaukee, Local Activist 2011
Alternative Publications/Shepherd Express
Certificate of Special Recognition 2006
U.S. Senator Russell Feingold
Facility Award 2004
Highsteppers Women’s Support Group
Special Commendation for Positive Approach to Safety 2003
City of Milwaukee Safety Commission
Community Organizing Achievement Award 1997
Nonprofit Center of Milwaukee
Community Organizing Award 1997
Progressive Milwaukee
Social Justice Award 1997
Wisconsin Community Fund
Affiliations & memberships
Association of Fundraising Professionals - Member 2011
Association of Fundraising Professionals - Member 2012
Association of Fundraising Professionals - Member 2010
External reviews
Photos
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of clinic visits provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Refuge & Resource Center
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This is the MONTHLY AVERAGE of visits. 14.5% increase over last year.
Number of showers provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Refuge & Resource Center
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
These are MONTHLY AVERAGES of showers provided. We use these metrics to evaluate need more than success of a program.
Number of Member (homeless and at-risk) visits
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Refuge & Resource Center
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This is the MONTHLY AVERAGE of visits. We use these metrics to evaluate need more than success of a program. 20% increase over last year.
Number of meals served or provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Refuge & Resource Center
Type of Metric
Other - describing something else
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This is the MONTHLY AVERAGE of meals served; evaluates need more than success. 5.6% increase over last year.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. Members are able to meet their basic needs (food, shelter, hygiene, clothing, health care, etc.) so that they can focus on sustaining economic self-sufficiency.
2. Members sustain a living situation that includes housing, benefits and/or job, and hope for the future.
3. Members are able to sustain mental health and substance abuse recovery.
4. Members are able to seek reconciliation and reunification with estranged family members.
5. Members sustain the program's self-governing model/community, emphasizing responsibility, dignity, empathy, compassion and hope.
6. The Repairers of the Breach model reduces stigma and inspires hope and action in the broader community.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Day shelter services
• Sanctuary
• Living room
• Community
• Center “ownership”
• Women's safe haven
• Breach Cafe
• Personal care/hygiene
• Free clinic
• Communication service (telephone, voicemail. e-mail)
• Mail service
• Voter initiatives
• Holiday support
• Sleep support
Services of an ongoing nature
• Support groups
• AODA recovery support
• Counseling services
• Violence reduction
• Learning center (for adult basic education)
• Employment assistance
• Leadership development
• Family reunification support
• Spiritual fellowship
• Veterans outreach
• Stress management
• Pain management
• Time and money management
• Enrichment/talent development
• Linkages to other social services
• Alumni support
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have partnered with many organizations to increase our capabilities. For example, Impact 2-1-1 visits our shelter and assists with getting the Members on housing. We're partnering with Covering Wisconsin to ensure our Members have health coverage. We've partnered with the Hunger Task Force to provide nutritious, fresh, healthy meals. We've also partnered with Marquette University to help with the free medical clinic.
In addition to partners, we also rely on hundreds of volunteers. From students helping with meals to volunteers weeding our garden, these in-kind services allow us to do so much on a small budget.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Continuing to offer programs and services, and our Members continuing to use them are our biggest accomplishments. We constantly endeavor to make sure they can count on us.
Going forward, we are in the very beginning stages of planning a Pilot Program, which will follow a small group of Members from beginning to end. We will still offer ala carte programs and services like we do now, but for those in the Pilot Program, we will assist them by designing a customized program to assist them out of homelessness. Again, we're in the very early stages of development, but we're already excited for this program.
We are also strengthening our life-restoring programs.
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REPAIRERS OF THE BREACH INC
Board of directorsas of 02/13/2023
Mrs Rebecca North
Milwaukee Friends Meeting
Term: 2017 -
Jim Podewils
Federal Defender Services of WI
Brandon Bruckman
Insight Investment Advisers
Joyce Roesler
Community Outreach
Frank Jelen
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish
Michelle Crockett
Community Outreach
Rebecca North
Milwaukee Friends Meeting
Steve Stupec-Hernandez
Town Bank
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