Charlottesville, VA Home to Hope program provides peer support to individuals released from prison
Charlottesville, VA peer support previously incarcerated
The City of Charlottesville launched the Home to Hope training program to provide peer support to individuals being released from incarceration. These Home to Hope "peer navigators" undergo seven weeks of intense training before helping their clients search for stable employment, secure housing, reliable transportation, rental assistance, etc. Participants complete a comprehensive case plan with their assigned peer navigator to determine how to measure individual success.
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Home to Hope Charlottesville, Virginia Charles Boyles, City Manager Charlottesville, Virginia, has identified itself as a Second Chance City, based on its commitment to facilitating the reentry of offenders who have been released to the community. In 2018, Mayor Nikuyah Walker proposed a program to train individuals with prior justice involvement to provide peer support to those being released, and Home to Hope was born.
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The city of Charlottesville's Home to Hope program has received an ICMA Award from Public Management Magazine.
Project Succeeded
The Home to Hope program has involved 389 enrollees so far with only seven returned to custody and only three of those were actively involved in the program. That represents a recidivism rate of 1.8% well below the 38% rate across the region. The City of Charlottesville received the ICMA's 2021 Community Sustainability Award for the success of the Home to Hope program.
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