Stephen Galvano, Founder Transformation Community Outreach and Senior Pastor, RCCM International

One of RCCM's newest and most exciting ministries is the RCCM Transformation Center. The RCCM Transformation Center is located in the heart of the city of Rochester in one of its most challenged neighborhoods. RCCM is making a difference in that community by practicing our slogan "Giving Hope, Building Dreams, Sharing Jesus".

Through our many programs, the primary goal of the RCCM Transformation Center is to be a beacon of light to the Jay Street community. The Transformation Center is also home to RCCM's newest church, RCCM Jay Street.

On a regular basis, the RCCM Transformation Center hosts the Day of Care. During the Day of Care the RCCM Transformation Center staff together with its community partners offer lunches and dinners, haircuts, medical and dental examinations, AIDS testing, and counseling all free of charge to the homeless and to those in need in the community. RCCM is proud to have formed alliances with community leaders such as The City of Rochester, Wellcare, Unity Health, Foodlink, AIDS Rochester, Suny Brockport, Wegmans, and Eastman Dental to make this landmark event possible. Click here to visit the Day of Care website.

Stephen Galvano and Sunday Adelaja at the RCCM Transformation Center

In addition to the Day of Care, RCCM host many annual events at the Transformation Center. Some of them include Hope-O-Ween, Celebrate Recovery, Thanksgiving at the Transformation Center and Christmas at the Transformation Center. These events are designed to meet the immediate and long term spiritual and social needs of the community. For more information about these events, please visit the RCCM Events page. Soon, The RCCM Transformation Center will soon launch a new daily after school program, called Learning Living Leading. The goal of the Learning, Living, Leading program is to provide a creative, fun and safe learning environment where students can reach their potential through academic assistance, and enrichment classes such as the arts and sports. We believe that Learning, Living, Leading will help youth realize and achieve their individual potential as well as increase their ability to empower others within their community. A comprehensive program evaluation which takes into consideration various data sources such as student grades and test scores, surveys, observations and interviews. To read more information about Learning, Living, Leading, click here.

Overall Goals for the Transformation Center.
Our overall goals for the Transformation Center is to create a Faith-Based community development program through a center designed for community residents who are interested in improving the quality of their life and family.
We, the RCCM Transformation Center staff, will strive to rebuild self-confidence and respect in members of the community. We will also assist these community members in building and restoring honest, healthy, and vital relationships with other members of the community, family members, and God.
The Transformation Center attempts to restore individuals to growth and maturity through love, warmth, concern, and affection implementing responsible behavior and to return the individual to functional involvement in society and self-sufficiency.

The mission of the Transformation Center is as follows:
1. To enhance our society using principles that are community-initiated, value-centered, and results-oriented.
2. Provide faith based counseling and support for individuals who have drug and alcohol addiction problems to enhance transformation, and their quality of life.
3. Develop strategies to assist and provide counseling for troubled youth in the community.
4. Build healthy relationships between youth, parents and the community at large.
5. Encourage single mothers in building and maintaining self-sufficient healthy families.
6. Develop strategic partnership with government agencies, private organizations, and churches to accomplish community goals more effectively.

The Transformation Center is committed to providing services that promote freedom from substance abuse, violence, and develop trust and healthy community living. Our service programs address community needs in the following areas:
1. Wellness and health: includes such services as health fairs, seminars, health education, substance abuse counseling and support.
2. Youth service: includes such services as counseling and support, emphasizing the importance of education, skills development, dangers of substance abuse and maintaining healthy relationships at home, at school, and in the community.
3. Family support: includes assisting parents with such services as counseling and support to single mothers who have difficulty parenting their children.

For much more information about the RCCM Transformation center, or to become involved, contact:
Elizabeth Gonzalez
RCCM Transformation Center Program Director
506 Jay St..
Rochester, New York 14611
247-4444
(Please send all correspondence to: 3177 Lyell Rd. Rochester, New York 14606)
Elizabeth.Gonzalez@rccm.org