Returning Home Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders
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The Source for Housing Solutions Returning Home Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex- Offenders October 10, 2013 OJACC Annual Conference
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The Source forHousing Solutions
Returning Home Ohio
Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-OffendersOctober 10, 2013OJACC Annual Conference
CSH
CSHOur mission is to advance solutions that use housingas a platform for services to improve the lives of themost vulnerable people, maximize public resourcesand build healthy communities.
We envision a future in which high-qualitysupportive housing solutions are integrated into the way every community serves the men, Women and children in most need.
CORE VALUES: Integrity, Respect, Persistence,Making a difference
Returning Home Ohio Partnership
Goal – Reduce Revolving Door
Is Supportive Housing for Everyone?
Supportive housing is proven to decrease homelessness and work best for very vulnerable individuals and families.
Returning Home Ohio serves those exiting prison homeless or at risk of homelessness and
have a serious and persistent mental illness, with or without a co-occurring disability
are HIV positive 120 day post release
What is Supportive Housing?
Affordable Housing
Health Care
Mental Health
Services
Case Management
Substance Abuse
Treatment
Employment Services
Coordinated Services
Housing:Housing:AffordablePermanentIndependent
anent
Support:Flexible
VoluntaryIndependent
RHO Providers
Columbus Amethyst, Inc. YMCA of Central Ohio New provider coming soon
Cleveland EDEN, Inc./Frontline Services
Dayton Miami Valley Housing Opportunities/Places, Inc.
Cincinnati Volunteers of America Greater Ohio
Akron Coming soon
Research & Evaluation
Quasi-experimental research study
Does RHO reduce recidivism?
Does RHO reduce residential instability?
What is the impact of RHO on service use?
Sample Enrollment
2007 (last quarter) 2008 20090
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120
140
1135
8033
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46treatment
comparison
Referral to intake
Jocelyn Fontaine, Douglas Gilchrist-Scott, John Roman, Samuel Taxy, & Caterina Roman, “Supportive Housing for Returning Prisoners: Outcomes and Impacts of the Returning Home-Ohio Pilot Project,” Urban Institute Justice Policy Center, August, 2012.
Sample Characteristics
Source: Urban Institute analysis of data from ODRC.^ Security level ranges from 1 to 5, where 1 is the lowest security level and level 5 is the highest. # Risk level ranges from negative 1 (basic risk) to 8 (intensive risk), which is ODRC’s classification of an inmates risk of reincarcerationNote: Independent sample t-test tests whether the difference in the means of the treatment group and the comparison group is significantly different from zero. Significance testing: *p<0.10; **p<0.05; ***p < 0.01
N=121 N=118
Returning Home Ohio Research Results
60% less likely to recidivate back to prison
Returning Home Ohio Research Results
40% less likely to be rearrested
What do the findings show about length of time to rearrest?
Length of time to rearrest is significantly longer for those in RHO
Returning Home Ohio Research Results
290% more likely to
receive outpatient services
41% more likely
to receive at least one service
Returning Home Ohio Research Results
Returning Home Ohio Research Results
Next Steps For Returning Home Ohio
Expand research by 2015
Expand to additional cities
Expand project to serve jail population and prison diversion
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