The Spring Shelter, Inc.

PROJECT PURPOSE

The Spring Shelter provides emergency crisis shelter and services to victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human sex trafficking. Serving some of the most victimized and unserved demographics in our state, our services require highly trained professionals who understand trauma-informed care and victim advocacy. This request would help to ensure our services remain at a high level and that trained staff is retained. A commitment of two years of victim/program support and administrative personnel funding would help us to ensure we could retain our current highly trained staff, continue to provide excellent victim services to show excellent measurables to help retain our current funding from foundations, and would allows us to make a greater generational and public impact through community training, education, prevention and awareness.

EVIDENCE

Since March of 2020, we have experienced a 91.5% increase to our emergency crisis hotline calls. We have also seen a higher rate of employee turnover and a 100% increase in demand for mental health services by both our clients and our employees.

POPULATION DESCRIPTION

The Spring Shelter services victims of domestic violence, human sex trafficking, and sexual assault. Our services are available to victims in all 77 counties of Oklahoma. There has been an increase demand of our services for these demographics as economic, mental health, and substance abuse stresses rise as a result of the pandemic and public health crisis.

PERFORMANCE MEASURING

The reason for this proposal is to compensate in hopes of retaining our highly trained victim services, advocacy, and administrative staff. Measurables to show project success would be through measuring employee returning throughout the duration of the global pandemic. Measurement of hours of victim services provided and number of clients served will be tracked and documented.

ONGOING INVESTMENT AMOUNT

$

ONGOING INVESTMENT DESCRIPTION

None

ONGOING INVESTMENT REQUIRED

Able to continue operation without additional funding from the State of Oklahoma