Dove, Inc./RSVP

Description

Dove is a social service agency housing various programs: Domestice Violence Shelter and Supportive Services (24-hour hotline, a shelter for women and children, counseling, legal advocacy, children's programming, parenting classes and an abusers' counseling group), Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (a national program that matches the talents of volunteers aged 55 or better to the needs of non-profit agencies, making it easier to volunteer in the community), Mother-to-Mother (program teams low income welfare mothers and middle income women in intentional friendships to develop understanding and foster advocacy), BABES (Beginning Addictions Basic Education Series combines puppets, workbooks and songs in lessons designed to help school children develop positive living skills), Community Services Program (organizes neighborhood groups to address problems of youth crime and delinquency), Homeward Bound (transitional housing, case management and supportive services to homeless people), Diversity Workshops, Childrens Clothing Room and Operation Warm Winter Coat Drive, as well as a Christmas Drive and Macon and DeWitt Assistance eXchanges (MAX and DAX).