STEWARDS INC

​Our mission and vision is to prevent homelessness in our community. All of our services steward clients in the stewardship of their lives. We are dedicated to helping keep our clients safe, healthy, and financially stable. We help them take care of themselves and we act on their behalf when needed.

As a Social Security appointed representative payee, it is our responsibility to manage our client’s benefits. Steward's Inc. will work with our client to determine and use their benefits for their current living needs and those of the foreseeable future. We budget to pay for housing, utilities, food, clothing, and extra funds are used for personal and emergency funds. We work in and partner with other organizations in our community to keep it clean, safe, and provide educational opportunities. We believe communities work best when there’s committed effort to value where you live and to care for the lives of people. It is a group effort and we are in it for the long haul.

Steward's Inc. has a methodical, dedicated and experienced staff focused on delivering representative payee services to our clients. To efficiently run our services, we use the Representative Payee Manager (RPM) software to best address our clients needs. RPM allows us to document our client's case files, organize our client's financial data, create balances and budgets, and it helps keep our data safe with its built-in security system. We are faithful to manage our resources in a manner that brings maximum benefit to our clients. We speak and act honestly. We are open and factual in our dealings with our donor, government programs, and our clients. And we assist our clients in stewarding their resources so they can be as healthy, happy, and safe as possible.

Currently, we have roughly 1,300 clients. Through the management of their finances we are quite effective in steering them away from very dangerous and severe outcomes, such as slipping into homelessness or blowing all of their money at the beginning of the month. The whole community benefits from this because the roughly $1.2 million in disability benefits we manage per month is used on rent, food, payment of their utilities, and other basic necessities. We are seeking to expand our services to include: a weekly food pantry and an affordable housing program accessible to our clientele base.