Citizens For Social Justice

The Golden Door Expansion Plan

Mobile Medical Bus

West Gainesville is in dire need of both medical services and family mentoring.  West Gainesville’s (WG) infection rate of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea and HIV/ AIDS ranks 3rd worst of 16 Central Florida areas.  The percentage of residents in poverty and Medicaid births ranks 5 and 6 respectively.  Also, the incident rate of child maltreatment ranks 5th worse among the 16 areas. 

The proposed expansion will include family mentoring services to homes in the West Gainesville area.  The proposed operations differ from the current Golden Door Program in the aspect that the Program offers mentoring to individuals only.  Through the expansion, our curriculum will expand to offer family group sessions as well as child care.

The primary vehicle that will be administering the medical services around West Gainesville will be the late model bus that was donated to the Golden Door program.  The bus will be driven by an independently hired driver.  The bus will run for 6 hours a day, 5 days a week, for a year.  Gas, insurance, bus driver salary and other operating expenses are outlined in the following budget. Locations for the bus to operate will be indentified and a schedule will be written for the bus to follow on a one week rotation.  The locations selected will be strategically placed around West Gainesville so as to provide the services to as many individuals as possible, but to also ensure the safety of volunteers and medical staff.  The locations and the schedule will be advertised to the residents of West Gainesville to ensure that there is awareness of operations.

In addition to the direct benefits for the city, this operations success would increase the organization’s rapport with the community.  This could potentially increase the corporate budget and involvement in the community.  Through this expansion the organization’s impact on Central Florida will increase.  This would allow Citizens for Social Justice (CSJ) to run the Golden Door program as well as the mobile medical unit in more locations which would greatly increase the standard of living in Gainesville as a whole.  All of this is in line with what CSJ strives to do in its day to day operations.  Our expansion would allow the service of more people in more locations. 

To see the proposed Expansion Plan, click here.