His Will Homes Inc

Through community we want to bring needed resources together to make a significant impact on people who struggle with mental wellness by removing their biggest barrier to receiving help - the inadequate amount of safe, dignified, affordable housing.

We want to implement our "four how's" (safeguarding, loving, dignifying, purposing) in such a way that we significantly reduce, if not eliminate the vicious, damaging, expensive cycling between jails, psychiatric hospitals, streets, and group homes many residents experience. We want to develop relationships with community care providers that will be fruitful in gaining access for our residents to the best medical treatment possible to ensure all their physical needs are met. We want communities to welcome His Will Homes into their neighborhoods because we safely and compassionately house their hurting neighbors, saving them money and making their environment safer. We want to become an organization whose reputation for excellence is only exceeded by our desire to serve.

"Our How" on our website https://hiswillhomes.org/ details our strategy. By implementing our "four hows" partially described below we believe we can and will achieve our goals and mission making our vision a reality.
Safe Guarding: We believe having quality care and oversight is the key to providing safe housing. At His Will homes, we foster a family atmosphere which allows our residents to rest easy and always fell safe, secure, and at HOME. Providing security to our residents is extremely important to us. We ensure the safety of our residents by establishing homes in neighborhoods that don't put residents at risk when they walk out of their home. Much of the affordable housing that can be rehabbed at a low cost or that already exists in neighborhoods that have high crime rates. These areas provide residents with continual access to drugs, panhandling, prostitution, and victimization. Although the Nimby, "Not In My Backyard", is not as bad in these areas, the other negative aspects of these neighborhoods, especially security, outweigh any advantage of using them.
Dignifying: People who struggle with mental wellness are today's "least of these" (Mathew 25). The stigma of mental illness is overwhelming to many - shunned, rejected, and made to feel unworthy. To counter these issues, we provide individual bedrooms for our residents to build their self-esteem and confirm that we know they ARE worth it. Having their own room allows them a personal space to escape when they need to be alone, an area that allows them to avoid other residents who may be having a bad day, and most importantly, a space where have the quiet time needed by all humans to be alone with their God and build the necessary relationship with Him that brings wholeness to everyone. As this critical relationship grows, residents discover their true identity. They soon understand they have worth, God-given worth, and that they have always had it despite their struggles and treatment here on earth. As a result, their dignity is restored.
Loving: Residents, like everyone else, need to feel they are loved. HWH believes they need to receive human touch. They almost never get any human contact and to actually get touched is a huge human need they rarely experience. We hire employees that will engage residents in conversation and relationship. We ensure we spend quality time with the residents through activities and other means. We provide exceptional care.
Purposing: Every person has been placed here on earth for a reason. To be healthy and feel at peace you to need to know you have purpose. According to a sermon that retired pastor Bruce Ball gave, there are five great benefits to having purpose.

1. Gives meaning to our lives,
2. Simplifies our lives,
3. Prepares us for eternity with God,
4. Keeps us focused, and
5. Motivates us.

We believe the benefits of helping connect our residents to their purpose will help them achieve an important piece of their overall health.

HWH has assembled a leadership team that represents nearly every area of the business, social service, medical, and administrative communities. We believe together, they posses all the assets necessary to develop a not-for-profit company from the ground up and grow into a soundly managed nationwide company.

As of this date, the organization policies procedures and plan have all been established. We are currently searching for a property that fulfills our "four hows". We recently were provided a 64 bed building and 3.5 acres as a gift in kind however, zoning refused our request to increase occupancy from 16 to 56. The building had lost its zoning when it quit operating as a nursing home. To be able to sustain operations we believe we need to do the project on a fairly large scale and are looking for buildings where we can house approximately 50 people in individual bedrooms and have green space around the building to provide aquaponics and other farming methods in order to reach our goal of providing purpose to our residents. We are also looking at farms to avoid the nimby concept from blocking our attempts to start which just happened in Dayton. We also have a local church who has promised to provide the labor of their disaster preparedness team to rehab the building. They also said once we get the building we can petition for funds for the supplies we will need. The key to us moving forward is we need to acquire a building. If you are aware of any property that might fit our needs please let us know.