Causes: Crime & Law, Crime & Legal-Related

Mission: Churches Embracing Offenders is a non-profit agency dedicated to ministering to the spiritual, physical, emotional, and social needs of non-violent offenders living in and returning to the community from incarceration.

Results: Since June of 2000 Churches Embracing Offenders has been helping men, women and youth being released from prison to stay out of prison. A study conducted by the University of Southern Indiana in 2011 shows that only 12.5% of those that have graduated from the Churches Embracing Offenders program have been re-arrested since 2000.Upon further study, we find that less than 2% returned to the Department of Corrections.

Target demographics: Prevent recidivism through spiritual nurturing

Direct beneficiaries per year: nearly 300 individual clients

Geographic areas served: Indiana

Programs: Celebrate Recovery and Thinking for a Change to assist offenders in recovery and reentry into the community