THE PEOPLE ARE READY
Help Us Put Trained Hands to Work for People Who Need Them Now
Restoring Hope Ministries has reached an unusual moment.
We are not asking you to help us imagine what might someday be possible.
We are asking you to help us use what is already here.
We have invested in training.
We have built programs.
We have established counseling and recovery services.
We have developed educational pathways.
We have created community relationships.
We have secured the tools needed to serve.
We have people who are trained, committed, and ready to work.
And yet one need now stands between preparation and service:
Payroll.
There is something difficult about saying that plainly. Buildings, equipment, scholarships, programs, and projects are often easier to fund because a donor can immediately see what was purchased. Payroll can look less tangible.
But people are the ministry.
A counseling room does not sit with a woman who is afraid she will relapse.
A neurofeedback system does not welcome someone through the door.
A curriculum does not look across the table at a person who has spent years believing her life cannot change.
A recovery house cannot encourage a resident after a difficult phone call, help her navigate the next appointment, or remind her that tomorrow is worth reaching.
People do that.
At Restoring Hope Ministries, those people are already here.
They have trained. They have prepared. They have chosen to serve.
Our organization has worked to establish the infrastructure around them so that funding does not disappear into building an organization from the ground up. We have invested in the systems, education, partnerships, equipment, programming, and operational foundation required to do this work responsibly.
What we need now is the financial capacity to consistently put trained people where the need already exists.
What Your Gift Actually Funds
When a foundation, church, business, or individual helps fund payroll at Restoring Hope Ministries, the gift is not simply paying a salary.
It is purchasing time with people.
Another hour in which someone can answer a call for help.
Another hour of recovery navigation.
Another hour of peer support.
Another hour of counseling access.
Another hour of supervision that helps developing counselors serve responsibly.
Another hour spent helping a woman move from instability toward recovery.
Another hour developing the programs and relationships necessary to open Hope120 and create a sustainable recovery community for women.
Another hour in which a trained person can say:
“I have time for you.”
That may be one of the most valuable things we can give someone in recovery.
Where the Need Is — and What Your Gifts Are Doing
This tracker shows our greatest needs right now and how current gifts are putting trained hands to work. Every percentage below is a person-hours commitment made possible by donors like you.
412 hrs
Trained staff hours funded this quarter
96
People served through funded hours
7
Trained team members ready to serve
18
Counselors & peers in formation
Our Greatest Needs Right Now
Ranked by urgency — funding progress this quarter
1.Payroll for trained counselors
62%Keeps biblical counseling affordable and accessible for women rebuilding their lives.
62% of this quarter’s counseling payroll funded
2.Peer support & recovery navigation
45%Puts trained peers beside women through early recovery, appointments, and setbacks.
45% of this quarter’s peer support hours funded
3.Supervision for developing counselors
78%Ensures every new counselor serves responsibly under experienced oversight.
78% of supervision hours funded
4.Program development for Hope120
30%Moves the recovery home from ready to open — staffing plans, partnerships, and operations.
30% of pre-opening development hours funded
Current Gifts, Trained Hands at Work
Hours delivered this quarter vs. this quarter’s goal
Counseling hours put to work
214 / 300 hrs
71% of goal
Peer support & recovery navigation hours
118 / 200 hrs
59% of goal
Supervision hours protecting quality of care
52 / 60 hrs
87% of goal
Community & program development hours
28 / 100 hrs
28% of goal
Every funded hour becomes a relationship: a call answered, a session held, an appointment navigated, a woman reminded that tomorrow is worth reaching.
Figures represent Restoring Hope Ministries’ current quarter and are updated as gifts arrive and staff hours are delivered.
We Don’t Just Serve — We Track How People Are Doing
Care without measurement is guesswork. That is why Restoring Hope Ministries tracks the well-being of every participant who takes advantage of our clinical and faith-based services — combining empirically validated screeners, clinical interviews, behavioral analysis, and self-report so we can see, honestly and humbly, whether the people we serve are actually getting better.
Empirically Validated Screeners
Participants complete standardized, research-backed instruments — such as the PHQ-9, GAD-7, PCL-5, and SCL-90 — so we can see change in depression, anxiety, trauma, and overall distress in measurable terms.
Clinical Interviews
Trained staff sit with each participant and listen — gathering history, understanding their story, and assessing how they are really doing in ways a questionnaire alone never could.
Behavioral Analysis
We observe what is actually changing in a person’s daily life — sleep, routines, relationships, follow-through, and engagement — because real transformation shows up in how someone lives, not just how they report feeling.
Self-Report
Each participant’s own voice matters. Their reflections on progress, setbacks, and hope help us adjust care to the person — never the other way around.
Led by the Training This Work Requires
This kind of measured, whole-person care is not improvised. Dr. Gross’s clinical training in clinical psychology as a student — and his practical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin across various disciplines — prepared him for exactly this type of organization and care.
Under his leadership, RHM pairs that clinical rigor with a relational, Christ-centered approach: every screener, interview, and observation is in service of knowing and loving the whole person in front of us — and of proving faithful with the trust donors place in this work.
When you fund the people, you are funding care that is measured, accountable, and deeply personal.
We Have Tried to Build This Differently
Restoring Hope Ministries does not want its future to depend entirely upon grants. We are developing earned-revenue services, educational programs, counseling, neurofeedback, partnerships, charitable giving, and other sustainable sources of support.
The goal is not permanent dependence. The goal is bridge funding that allows trained people to serve while the programs around them reach sustainable scale.
There is an important difference.
We are not asking a donor to indefinitely carry an organization that has no plan for sustainability. We are asking partners to help us cross the distance between ready and fully sustainable.
And every month that distance becomes smaller.
Why This Matters Now
Our next major undertaking is expanding the recovery continuum for women. Hope120 is being developed around a simple conviction:
A woman in recovery should not have to choose between a safe place to live and meaningful support for rebuilding her life.
Housing matters.
But a house alone cannot provide recovery.
Recovery requires relationships.
It requires people willing to walk beside someone through the ordinary and extraordinarily difficult work of rebuilding a life.
That means:
- Trained staff
- Peer support
- Recovery navigation
- Counseling access
- Program coordination
- Supervision
- Education
- Community partnerships
- And people who have enough protected time to actually do those things well.
Capital can give us a house. Payroll allows that house — and every program surrounding it — to become a place of restoration.
Our Invitation
We are asking churches, foundations, businesses, and individual partners to consider something remarkably practical: help us fund the people who are already prepared to serve.
Individuals & Families
A gift can sponsor a portion of one position.
Churches
A church can sponsor staff hours dedicated to recovery access.
Businesses
A business can underwrite a month of service.
Foundations
A foundation can provide bridge operating support while programs grow.
Major Donors
A major donor can help secure a year of workforce stability and allow RHM to dramatically expand the number of people we can serve.
Every level matters.
Because the question before us is no longer:
“Can we build the capacity to do this work?”
Much of that capacity has already been built. The question is:
“Can we financially release the people who are ready to do it?”
We believe the answer can be yes.
There are women preparing to rebuild their lives.
There are individuals and families searching for affordable care.
There are people in recovery who need someone to walk beside them.
And there are trained people at Restoring Hope Ministries ready to answer.
Help us put them to work.
Fund the hour. Fund the person. Help make the relationship possible.
Give Now — Fund the PeopleRestoring Hope Ministries, Inc.
Green Bay, Wisconsin · 501(c)(3) Public Charity · EIN 87-3681358
Dr. Jeffrey Gross
Executive Director & Lead Counseling Pastor
People are not overhead. People are how the mission reaches another person.
