Living Waters Ngt Association Inc
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Founded in 2014 as a natural outgrowth of Living Water’s Counseling Center’s charity efforts, NGT was created to specifically address the over whelming need to provide faith based counseling services to low income, uninsured individuals and families in our community experiencing trauma, abuse or addiction.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Healing Waters Sponsorship
Mental health care sponsorship is provided to people in need who are unemployed, have no health insurance or are currently experiencing a financial crisis and are in need of mental health services.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
NGT's Healing Waters program is aiming to assist clients in need of financial relief to have access towards spiritual freedom, empowerment, and healing them from the pain, and debilitating ailments caused by trauma, addictions, and abuse. NGT is working on providing quality holistic, faith based mental health counseling services to those in our community who cannot afford them due to financial hardships, lack of health insurance or to the recently unemployed. Our goal is to make these services accessible, helping everyone recover and be the most authentic self they were created to be regardless of income, faith traditions or no faith.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategies include continued fundraising, applying for grants and receiving private donations which provide individuals with the financial relief to receive the holistic counseling services they need. NGT makes counseling services accessible to all those in need regardless of their income, a need it is currently striving to meet. Traditionally counseling fees may run in the upwards range of $75 or more, While NGT makes services accessible through a sliding scale fee or at no cost through Healing waters program that pays for $40 per counseling session while the remainder is absorbed by the center .
The therapist at our center use an integrated approach to healing the whole individual using the concepts of mind and spirit applying traditional clinical counseling skills but also including a strong spiritual component. Therapists at Living Waters Center are dedicated in healing the whole individual in the four quadrants of the human being: the intellectual, the emotional, the body, and the spirit through cognitive behavioral therapy, insight oriented, goal oriented, EMDR, inner child work, theophostics, somaticization and prayer. These techniques are among the most efficacious in the treatment of depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation. In the therapeutic community more and more counselors recognize that purely using the clinical approach without the spiritual has a poor outcome. The inability to develop the spiritual quadrant leads to lack of fulfillment, confusion and emptiness. The uses clinical skills but also includes a strong spiritual component, much like a 12 step program that allows for development of this quadrant leads to unclouded thinking and a sense of peace.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
At the center the therapist focus on healing the whole individual in the four quadrants of the human being: the intellectual,the emotional, the body, and the spirit. Founded in 2000, Living Waters Counseling Center is currently comprised of highly experienced part-time staff. The organization’s Executive Director holds an LCSW and is a specialist in the field of addiction treatment with over 30 years in the field. The center employs 13 people including 8 therapists. All of which are licensed mental health workers, licensed clinical social workers, or Mental health counselors. In addition, LWC staff includes a licensed clinical social worker, who is a sister of St. Dominic with an MA in Pastoral Family Counseling. She offers counseling and spiritual guidance to adults, children and couples to help create a clear focused direction in the lives. Spiritual direction at Living Waters is provided by Eileen Nolan who has attended Francis MacNutt’s school of Healing Prayer and Jesuit Fr. James Wheeler’s School for Spiritual Growth and Inner Healing (St. Joseph’s Prayer Center). She is available to those clients who are interested in spiritual direction. Healing Waters program through NGT is coordinated by the Program Director, who has over 15 year of non profit administration experience. Their focus is to expand programming at the center while increasing its visibility and to also help raise funds for the non for profit, in order to help bring services to clients who cannot afford them.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
NGT has been able to raise funds in the last three years to be able to assist over 20 clients in need of services for at least one full year. The majority of our Healing Waters program clients have received services free of charged for over 12 months. NGT has also been able to cover its operating costs without the help of the center. NGT will work on increasing the percentage of contributions and average gift size growth that will indicate the ability to continuously provide uninterrupted faith based counseling services assisting clients who are in need as well as increase the number of clients served in our program.
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Living Waters Ngt Association Inc
Board of directorsas of 02/19/2019
Msgr. T. Peter Ryan
Michael Racinelli
Racinelli Construction
Maryann Csencsits