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Returning Home Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders

Returning Home Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders. October 10, 2013 OJACC Annual Conference. CSH. CSH Our mission is to advance solutions that use housing as a platform for services to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people, maximize public resources

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Returning Home Ohio Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders

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  1. Returning Home OhioPermanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders October 10, 2013 OJACC Annual Conference

  2. CSH CSH Our mission is to advance solutions that use housing as a platform for services to improve the lives of the most vulnerable people, maximize public resources and build healthy communities. We envision a future in which high-quality supportive 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

  3. Returning Home Ohio Partnership

  4. Goal – Reduce Revolving Door

  5. 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

  6. What is Supportive Housing? Case Management Affordable Housing Employment Services Mental Health Services • Housing: • Housing: • Affordable • Permanent • Independent • anent Support: Flexible Voluntary Independent Health Care Substance Abuse Treatment Coordinated Services

  7. 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

  8. Research & Evaluation Quasi-experimental research study • Does RHO reduce recidivism? • Does RHO reduce residential instability? • What is the impact of RHO on service use?

  9. Sample Enrollment 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.

  10. Sample Characteristics N=121 N=118 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 reincarceration Note: 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

  11. Returning Home Ohio Research Results 60% less likely to recidivate back to prison

  12. Returning Home Ohio Research Results 40% less likely to be rearrested

  13. What do the findings show about length of time to rearrest? Length of time to rearrest is significantly longer for those in RHO

  14. Returning Home Ohio Research Results 290% more likely to receive outpatient services 41% more likely to receive at least one service

  15. Returning Home Ohio Research Results

  16. Returning Home Ohio Research Results

  17. Next Steps For Returning Home Ohio • Expand research by 2015 • Expand to additional cities • Expand project to serve jail population and prison diversion

  18. Returning Home Ohio

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