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​