Supports the purchase of office supplies and therapeutic materials: Participating in therapeutic services does not always just mean sitting or laying on your therapist couch! Here at ARROW Project we embrace interactive, engaging, and experiential therapy practices. This often requires materials. So what materials are most useful? Well there is an endless supply of supplies, but to name a few- crayons, markers, painter paper, sand trays, skills workbooks, evidenced based literature, and so much more. ARROW has had a long history of donor support that has ensured that we can continue to grow our therapeutic supplies and resources. Annual giving could be helpful to allow us to better plan for materials that we know need to be replaced often, as well as allow us to keep building our “tool kit” for future practice.

Supports marketing and educational materials: ARROW Project currently tables and average of 35 events per year. Each event requires staffing, marketing materials, lots of hand outs as well as that support ARROW Project’s ability to provide mental health resources to our clients AND community. The cost of one community engagement events is approximately $1000, so just imagine if we do 35+ every single donor dollar counts toward making each event a success!

Supports community outreach: ARROW Project has lots and lots of printable materials. Our workbooks, our program flyers, our pamphlets and our community partner referral packets. It cost ARROW approximately $3000 to print materials for a single year. Additionally, ARROW Project provides approximately 10 community education events per year. This outreach is incredibly important in ensuring that our community partners stay up to date on the services that we offer. But also, community education is an opportunity to provide meaningful education around a myriad mental health specific topics to help our them better support their own mental health as well as community memebers that they serve. The cost for one community education event is approximately $2000.

Supports sliding scale services: ARROW Project currently serves about 55% of it’s caseload of sliding scale or fee free services. That’s an average of 200 clients per week. ARROW will always seek to have this option for all clients because we acknowledge that affordable care is one of the primary barriers to access and participation in mental health services.

Supports operational costs: Donations of $10k or more annual will support operational cost at ARROW Project. So what is ”operational cost?” Rent, Employee pay and retention, and administrative support/personnel. Rent- ARROW Project currently has three office locations with 21 offices spaces to provide therapeutic services to community members. We are the only local nonprofit mental health organization with multiple locations and any support in ensuring this locations can remain open and operational is significant impact to the organization. So what does space cost us annually? $75,000! Employee Pay and Retention- Similar to office space ARROW Project currently has the second largest single-agency clinical staff in our region. The expansiveness of our work in office and in community would not be possible without the number of dedicated staff that ARROW Project has been able to employ. ARROW Project is working diligently to remain a competive employer in the field of mental health and your dollars can help us to do that! Administrative Support/Personnel- Did you know that ARROW Project’s administrative team is ALSO our clinical team? Yes, that’s right every one on staff that provides administrative supports also provides the life-changing mental health services to community members. As you can guess wearing multiple hats within the organization can be taxing. With larger dollar donations ARROW Project can do two things- one; set aside additional dollars to pay clinical staff for their administrative work and two; look at opportunities to build out an administrative team that can be solely focused on the important administrative work that keeps the organization moving forward!