Sources: IFEBP Education Benefits Survey, Discover Case Study and Cigna Case Study.
St. Matthew’s House is an innovative $19 million dollar rescue mission serving the poor, homeless and addicted in Naples, FL that has doubled in size over the past few years. With this growth, the leadership of St. Matthew’s realized a key strategy to remain effective and innovative is to invest heavily in the education and training of their staff through a tuition reimbursement program.Â
In the past 3 years, St. Matthew’s has had over 25 of their staff and others enroll in City Vision and one of their staff has become faculty. They also were able to attract considerable donations to their education fund to fund scholarships to staff and clients.
As a strategic partner, City Vision provides a 33% discount so tuition is only $5,000/year. Also, many of their staff have outstanding senior management experience, enabling them to accelerate their degree by getting prior learning credit for their past experience. City Vision plan to partner with St. Matthew’s to convert some of our online courses into curriculum that can be taught locally, so they could be taken by all their intensive residential recovery programs participants.Â
“The partnership with City Vision has been one of the most important factors to equip our team to minister to the needs of the poor. Without this partnership, we wouldn’t be nearly as effective serving our most vulnerable neighbors.”
– Rev. Vann Ellison, President, St. Matthew’s House