Accomplishments and Goals

OUR IMPACT ON SOCIETY

Through housing, feeding, mentoring, and managing men struggling with addictions, Project Rescue is positively impacting the Opioid Epidemic and Mental Health Crisis!

We are positively impacting families by caring for grandsons, sons, dads, husbands, and brothers.

We are impacting businesses by reducing crime and helping their employees to be reliable workers.

We are impacting government, as we lighten the load upon our Criminal Justice, Health Care and Social Services agencies!

We are positively impacting churches of Christ in America, as an average of 30 congregations a year send their members to us.

OUR EXPERTISE IN ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

Our Board of Directors has a vast & diverse experience to set our policies. 

Our Executive Committee have the business and life experience to oversee the daily management. 

Our board chairman, Tom Irwin, adds his years of experience in public education.  

Ronnie Crocker, our Program Director, has spent 30 years rescuing & mentoring addicts. Two more of our staff members, Jason Cagle and Rick Talley are our 1-year graduates. They know the deceptiveness that accompanies addiction.

OUR SUCCESS RATE

56% success rate in 2018 -   50 men entered PR in 2018.  28 out of these 50 members were continuing at year’s end.  

60.14% success rate in 2019  -  47 members entered PR in 2019.    29 of these 47 members were continuing at year’s end.  

71.66% success rate in 2020  -  60 members entered PR in 2020.     43 of these 60 members were continuing at year’s end.   Twenty-nine churches of Christ sent these men to us.  

74.13% success rate in 2021  -  58 members entered PR in 2021.  Forty-three of these 58 members are continuing.  Forty-one churches of Christ sent these men to us.

77.35% success rate in 2022 -   53 members entered PR in 2022.  Forty-one of these 53 are continuing.  Thirty-five churches of Christ sent these men to us.

92.07% success rate, so far (September) in 2023 – Forty-three have entered PR this year.  Thirty-eight of these 43 are continuing.  Thirty churches of Christ sent these men to us.

Relapse is a harsh reality in the addiction recovery ministry.  The way we measure our success rate is fluid: If a previous member relapses and goes back out into the world, he goes in a negative column which will lower our success rate.  If he repents and returns to us or another program, he is moved into the positive column, which raises our success rate. 

OUR GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

When a member accomplishes the following two objectives we have for him, his success is guaranteed:

1. Project Rescue’s objective is for our members to learn God’s Word and develop a close relationship with the Holy Spirit.   

2. It is also our goal to encourage our members to become heavily involved in the work of the church and enjoy close fellowship with members of the church.

“But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control perseverance, to perseverance godliness,  to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound, you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins. 10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”  2 Peter 1:5-11

Another goal is for each member to become financially independent of his family, driving his own vehicle, living in his own apartment, and providing for all of his own needs.

OUR RELAPSE PREVENTION STRATEGY

The Project Rescue Addiction Recovery Program uses proven relapse strategies: 

We extract the addicted man from his negative environment and insert him into a positive one in our apartments.

We separate the member from his phone and number.  His travel and social activities are restricted. 

He is not allowed to have access to cash for 90 days.  

He is not allowed to befriend women for his first 6 months.

He is required to submit to random alcohol & drug tests. 

For his second six months, he is given significant freedoms as a test.

His second six months is also a time to prepare to graduate and leave the protective support structure of Project Rescue.

1. To avoid relapse, we want the member to feel totally free in his last months with us.  We do not want him to go from a heavily structured environment to total freedom in an instant.

2. He needs to become more involved in his congregation, because his church will take over his support when he moves home.

3. He needs to replicate the accountability structure he has in the program.  He should work on finding an accountability friend outside of Project Rescue.  It needs to be someone he respects and trusts.  it should not be a close family member.  This will be the person who drug tests him.

Our Financial Accountability Measures

Jeanie Crocker is our bookkeeper.  A local accounting firm continually monitors our financial income & expenses and prepares our 990 form for the IRS. 

Our Executive Committee can watch, in real time, all the activities of our bookkeeper through QuickBooks Online. 

We have a policy of having two signers on our checks.