Our ongoing goals
Creating a safe, supportive and sustainable community isn’t going to happen overnight. Part of our strategy is to begin small, learn and grow. To start, we will:
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- Build partnerships with faith and other communities to find volunteers who can support residents at each RJHO location.
- Establish a profile of people most likely to succeed with our assistance.
- Continue to recruit, screen, train and support volunteers particularly for the new women's residence in the Fall of 2022
- Continue communicating with correctional staff from women's institutions as well as men's to refer people who can benefit from our program.
- Continue to support the residents of the three men's houses
- Identify and select occupants for the women's house in the fourth quarter of 2022
- Continue fundraising enough to cover needed costs. We use this money to cover the gap between what tenants can afford and the actual costs.
Estimated budget as of early 2020
2020: $62,500
2021: $85,800
1,000-day budget: $198,200
Get involved
Let's have a conversation about how you or your group can assist in finding safe, supportive and sustainable housing for an ex-prisoner in need.