Good Counsel Inc

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Aug 2, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$4,009,620

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Counseling:a mom is welcomed to a good counsel home and made one of the family. She begins a unique relationship with one case manager. She will also have a mentor who is like her sister and can be any member of the staff. The mom may choose who is with her during her time of delivery. Every step of the way trained good counsel staff help each mom seek to uncover the struggles and strains which brought her to our doors. Before entering good counsel some 57% of mothers reported being abused either sexually, physically, or seriously emotionally. Also, last year 26% reported having had at least one abortion. During the first month at good counsel each mom is guided to use online assessment tools to discover more about herself, her educational strengths and weaknesses and her vocational proclivities. Her case manager, along with a staff who will mentor her, will help her understand the assessments as well as constructively listen to the hopes and desires each mother has. The case manager will officially meet each mother at least one hour each week. Other informal meetings happen as needed and usually more than once a week. Just the formal meetings totaled 6,737 during 2011. Additionally, 72 mothers received outside professional counseling.

Activity 3

Life skills programs: a total of 1,200 life skills programs were received by good counsel mothers during 2011. Life skills help deepen a mother's knowledge and awareness of living a healthy, productive life. Life skills are presented formally in classes and individually as needed. Such areas as proper nutrition, child growth and development, health, and social skills are taught using specific outlines prepared for good counsel mothers. Personal finance is taught individually helping each mother develop her own budget. Spirituality is shared both formally in group meetings and individually as each mother desires and explores her relationship with god. We share a loving, merciful, forgiving god who has brought us together to live for each other. Paid staff or professional volunteers, with expertise in each area, present life skills classes. Plus, mothers are able to take individual online classes in some of these topics. A minimum of three and often four group classes are taught in each home each week.

Filer

EIN

22-2831271