Renascence benefits not only its resident members and their families, but also the communities to which they return!
Community
- Safer neighborhoods and communities
- Reduce public tax burden of paying for incarceration
- A skilled, responsible workforce
- Renovation and maintenance of Victorian house in downtown
- Accountability of ex-offenders’ whereabouts
- Reduced likelihood of relapse
Resident Members
- Secure, affordable housing
- A structured program of case management and life skills training
- Coordinated access to job skills and services
- Less failure and more empowerment in transition from prison to self-sufficiency
Resident Families
- Timely child support payments
- Better relationships and more active, positive involvement
- Financially-responsible fathers
Taxpayers
- For every man who does not return to prison after release, taxpayers save $17,691.55 a year (per Alabama Department of Corrections)
“When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
—Bernard Meltze