OUR MISSION

Our mission is to help the PInebelt’s most vulnerable RECOVER from natural disasters, substandard housing, economic crises, and the toxic effects of chronic poverty, REBUILD homes, communities, and lives, and RESTORE health, financial stability, dignity and hope.

We do this primarily by:


Providing case management

Recruiting, housing, and mobilizing volunteers

Attracting and administering grants

Creating dynamic partnerships to maximize impact


WHAT WE DO?

Disaster Services

As the founding R3SM program, the Disaster Services program coordinates restoration, rebuilding and recovery services to low-income families and individuals living in Mississippi’s Pine Belt region. The efforts include assisting eligible residents affected by natural disaster by delivering high-quality case management while focusing on the processes of assessment, planning, advocacy, linking and monitoring.



Affordable Housing

Through new construction and housing preservation methods within Mississippi’s Pine Belt Region, the Affordable Housing Program was created to decrease the gap in safe and appropriate housing for low income families and individuals, including the elderly and working poor.





Workforce Development & Training

R3SM’s Workforce Development & Training Program, aka Onward & Upward offers a curriculum to build knowledge and skills in the areas of building, design, life skills and community services for low-income individuals, creating a prepared, productive and sustainable workforce that will contribute to the improvement of the Pine Belt’s economic and community health, as well as provide a critical resource to support the needs of R3SM’s long term disaster and economic crisis recovery efforts.

Meet our Director

Mavis A. Creagh is an executive director, best-selling author, speaker, consultant, mental health proponent, community champion, women’s advocate, entrepreneurial strategist, columnist, and online show host. She currently serves as the Executive Director of R3SM, Inc. (Recover, Rebuild, and Restore Southeast MS) a nonprofit founded following Hurricane Katrina. Her proudest accomplishments is being the mother to her amazing teenage son, Jordan who is also a trained chef and basketball enthusiast. 


Meet our Staff

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