Effective Reentry Ministry for Ordinary Congregations

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42% of congregational reentry ministries have a special name: • Renew/Youth Collective/Connect/Turning Point/Forward • Celebrate Recovery • Restorative Justice Ministry • Hand Up to Victory • AIM CENTER Jesus Loves Me Club • Last Door, Inc. 501(c)(3), also branded curriculum called “God Made Real Ministries” • Restoration Groups • Welcome Home • Inspiration Ministries • Community Recovery International • Rescued Not Arrested • GATE Outreach Ministries 37% offer reentry case management or reentry navigators: staff case/ social workers, multi-service center, help with making connections with SPs, inmate classes to prep for reentry, case management begin- ning pre-release, whole-life case management 42% offer life skills training sensitive to RCs’ needs and concerns 48% offer cognitive behavioral therapy or anger management pro- gramming sensitive to RCs’ needs and concerns 40% offer other behavior or mental health programming sensitive to RCs’ needs and concerns 44% offer job readiness or employment services programming sen- sitive to RCs’ needs and concerns

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60% offer a feeding ministry in some form for RCs

53% offer a clothing ministry for RCs 55% help with transportation for RCs

Transportation assistance: Bus/rail passes: 43% Volunteers provide rides: 74% Other (43%): • church van picks people up from transitional housing

• staff/intern/designated drivers • rides to Celebrate Recovery • provision of car, • clearance to transport inmates to court-mandated program- ming, • gift cards for transportation,

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