Renascence provides safe housing and structured, ongoing support to men released from prison on parole.
Renascence Re-entry Program
Our transitional program provides housing for up to 14 residents at a time. They remain for six to 12 months, based on need and progression in the program. This positive home includes structured programs and services that help residents obtain and keep employment and conduct responsible social lives. The program helps them overcome challenges with work skills and habits, chemical dependency, education, and family and community responsibilities.
Changing Lifestyles
Our primary aim is to foster individual change and positive growth. We accomplish this by changing an individual’s life style through a community of concerned people who work together to help themselves and each other. The highly structured environment with defined moral and ethical boundaries employs community-imposed sanctions and penalties as well as earned advancement of status and privileges as part of the recovery and growth process. Being part of something greater than oneself is an especially important factor in facilitating positive growth. Each resident is responsible for his own behavior through rigorous screening, drug-testing, and strict supervision.
Getting Started
Eligible men make application to our program with help from counselors and classification officers working with the Department of Corrections. Renascence staff reviews each application and makes a decision within two weeks.
Once accepted into the program, residents of the home share household responsibilities that include maintaining our community garden. To foster a sense of pride and ownership, all residents help in repair and upkeep of the house. Long-term residents mentor newer ones. Giving to someone else and service work by residents are crucial parts of the process of reconciliation with society.
In the Program
Residents are expected to do any remedial academic work necessary to bring them to a General Equivalency Diploma (GED), the equivalent of a high school diploma. They work around the house and perform community service. After an initial probationary residency, they are also required to secure jobs away from the house. Residents help manage the house and attend house meetings and self-help classes. If they have a past history of substance abuse, they are required to attend recovery group meetings. Residents earn status and privilege by consistent model behavior and by setting and attaining realistic goals. All residents contribute 25% of their wages to support the house. We encourage them to put an additional percent of earnings into a savings account for use when they leave the program.
Rules and policies of the home include a nightly curfew and attendance at scheduled classes that include morning and/or evening house meetings.
Results
Renascence changes the lives of men. Once they build self-respect, they can make lifestyle changes that enable them to get and keep a job, pay their debts, refrain from addictive behaviors, and become responsible members of society.
Changing Lifestyles
Our primary aim is to foster individual change and positive growth. We accomplish this by changing an individual’s life style through a community of concerned people who work together to help themselves and each other. The highly structured environment with defined moral and ethical boundaries employs community-imposed sanctions and penalties as well as earned advancement of status and privileges as part of the recovery and growth process. Being part of something greater than oneself is an especially important factor in facilitating positive growth. Each resident is responsible for his own behavior through rigorous screening, drug-testing, and strict supervision.
Getting Started
Eligible men make application to our program with help from counselors and classification officers working with the Department of Corrections. Renascence staff reviews each application and makes a decision within two weeks.
Once accepted into the program, residents of the home share household responsibilities that include maintaining our community garden. To foster a sense of pride and ownership, all residents help in repair and upkeep of the house. Long-term residents mentor newer ones. Giving to someone else and service work by residents are crucial parts of the process of reconciliation with society.
In the Program
Residents are expected to do any remedial academic work necessary to bring them to a General Equivalency Diploma (GED), the equivalent of a high school diploma. They work around the house and perform community service. After an initial probationary residency, they are also required to secure jobs away from the house. Residents help manage the house and attend house meetings and self-help classes. If they have a past history of substance abuse, they are required to attend recovery group meetings. Residents earn status and privilege by consistent model behavior and by setting and attaining realistic goals. All residents contribute 25% of their wages to support the house. We encourage them to put an additional percent of earnings into a savings account for use when they leave the program.
Rules and policies of the home include a nightly curfew and attendance at scheduled classes that include morning and/or evening house meetings.
Results
Renascence changes the lives of men. Once they build self-respect, they can make lifestyle changes that enable them to get and keep a job, pay their debts, refrain from addictive behaviors, and become responsible members of society.
“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”
—Colin Powell