$613K in expenses

This year AdHoc has provided mental health services to 104 individuals with over 800 sessions. AdHoc holds healthy relationship classes and family support group meetings at its offices. Over 29 people participated in healthy relationship classes in 2024. In keeping with our mission, in 2024, AdHoc set out to serve 300 new families who have been victimized by homicides and violent assaults through individual counseling, crisis intervention and case management. We provided direct assistance to 51 households needing emergency relocation. 239 people received much needed case management and crisis support services. As of December 2024, approximately 576 people received services that range from employment readiness, counseling, cognitive behavioral intervention, case management, and healthy relationships classes. In July of 2024, AdHoc in partnership with Wyandotte County District Attorney's office launched The LETS RAPP (Lessing Effects of Trauma, Strengthening Resources, Assistance, Prevention, Partnership) program in Wyandotte County. LETS RAPP is a comprehensive initiative aimed at addressing the pressing issue of gun violence through a holistic, community-driven approach. By focusing on trauma-informed care, resource mobilization, and collaborative partnerships, the program seeks to create lasting change and improve the well-being of vulnerable residents. The launch of the program was a milestone achievement for AdHoc and Wyandotte County, KS. For AdHoc, we officially expanded our services to include minor home repair, crisis case management and counseling for victims of violent crime. The program also strengthens local partnerships with law enforcement and local businesses. We also respond to the University of Kansas Health System, through a collaborative program called REVIVE. REVIVE (Reducing the Effects of Violence through Intervention and Victim Empowerment) is a program where youth admitted to the ER due to violence-related injuries are connected with our program. We then work with other community members to provide a network of support. Hospitalization offers a unique window of opportunity for intervention. The time when a violently injured young person is lying alone, vulnerable, and scared in a hospital bed is a pivotal moment in which intervention has the greatest chance of succeeding. In addition to providing a setting for meeting with the patient along with their family and friends to "squash" any plans for retaliation, it is an optimal time to initiate a treatment plan, which includes integrated care involving a range of disciplines over time and across medical and community settings. This year we reached 100% participation rates and connection with those referred. The winter of 2023, we launched our "Open for Justice" series on YouTube. The series brings attention to unsolved homicides and missing persons cases that have gone unsolved. The goal is to give families a platform to call for justice and to bring additional attention to their cases. The platform increased our online social media presence, provided families with a resource to continue to raise awareness of their loved one's case, and provided law enforcement with another avenue to communicate with the public. This effort also helped the agency increase its communication and continuity on social media by 150%. Jackson County, along with the rest of the nation, is experiencing an influx of ex-offenders re-entering society after years of incarceration. A common fear is that those returning to society from incarceration will exhibit violent behaviors in the communities to which they return. Several studies show that interventions meant to teach new coping behaviors to returning citizens can be very successful in reducing these violent reactions. The Thinking for a Change program is designed as a cognitive behavioral intervention for individuals involved with criminal and juvenile justice systems. AdHoc's trained group facilitators are making great strides in the reduction of recidivism through this curriculum. Through the program, AdHoc partners with the Kansas City Municipal Court, Probation and Parole. Our Thinking for a Change program graduated 71 individuals for which 95% have not recidivated. As we plan to build and move into the AdHoc Center for Healing and Justice, we are focused on working with community partners to identify impactful strategies for intervening to address generational trauma and to have cumulative systemic effect to target the root causes of crime and social determinants of health. The early manifestation of this strategy takes the form of a series of community conversations to bring community stakeholders together to identify and address generational trauma. When we move into our new home, with our new "Innovation Space," those community conversations will take place in house, but for now they are taking place at venues around the community. We are also working with UMKC to develop a screening tool for generational trauma. The first and largest event that made up our community conversations so far was when we hosted Dr. Joy Angela DeGruy at the Kaufman Center. Dr. DeGruy, author of "Post Traumatic Slavery Syndrome," who shared valuable information about the history of slavery and its impact on the psyche and health of modern-day black families and communities. The event was well received and was a great success for AdHoc's engagement with the community. We followed this up in Fall 2024 with a community Conversation hosted at a nearby Venue called "La Villa," where participants joined us to add an ongoing discussion of the nature of traumas, how it replicates across generations, and what a strategy to address generational trauma might look like. To raise awareness of the services we provide and understand the impact of intergenerational trauma, we increased our story banking efforts. We conducted phone interviews and distributed surveys to clients and community members in order to build a data bank on the basis of which to develop a screening tool for generational trauma. We have increased our goal from 25 survey participants to 40 and have increased our budget for survey incentives accordingly. Our staff is continuing to collect and streamline testimonials from our clients and members of the community to build a story bank. This will assist us in sharing the impact of our work with the community and in identifying the real-world impact of our efforts in the community. In 2022 we received a generous donation of land from The Hope Center. This was very timely given that AdHoc's previous office space was condemned, and we found ourselves displaced. Thanks to our generous community partners, the agency was finally able to execute one of its longtime priorities. To fulfill its mission of being a community resource for violence intervention and prevention, AdHoc would become a beacon of hope in a community plagued by violence and economic deprivation. We received two significant contributions that helped us achieve our fundraising goals. Enterprise Bank & Trust granted AdHoc over 7 million dollars in New Market Tax Credits and The City of Kansas City Missouri awarded AdHoc 2.1 million dollars of Central City Economic Development Funds. In 2025, we plan to break ground and construct the Center for Healing and Justice.