Transform Lives Through Housing: Replicate Successful Reentry Solutions
Discover how the data-driven CSH Returning Home and the Community Transition Program break the cycle of reincarceration and make communities safe. Learn how to bring these solutions to your state.
Proven Solutions for Communities Ready to Break the Cycle of Reincarceration
The evidence is clear: when formerly incarcerated people have stable housing and supportive services, they rebuild their lives and communities are safer. Since 2007, our programs have successfully housed more than 2,300 returning citizens across Ohio. The majority of these people have maintained their housing and have not engaged in activity that would return them to jail.
Bring Our Successful Reentry Models to Your State
State Agencies Can Lead the Way for Housing-Centered Reentry That Works
Your state can implement our transformative programs to create safer communities while giving returning citizens a chance to thrive. Like in Ohio, state departments of corrections or mental health are in best position to lead the way. Our proven framework can be adapted to meet your local needs and challenges.
About Returning Home
The Returning Home model connects people exiting a state prison system with long-term housing and voluntary support services. The model is highly effective in Ohio at dramatically reducing recidivism and helping people transition back into their communities. Returning Home Ohio is a collaboration between CSH and the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC). ODRC supports the coordination required for persons transitioning out of incarceration including covering costs associated with administering the program.
Launched in 2007, Returning Home Ohio has helped more than 1,100 individuals avoid reoffending, demonstrating the power of stable housing and services.
About the Community Transition Program
The Community Transition Program provides intensive case management services and long-term housing for people exiting a state’s prison system and who are recovering from mental illness and substance use disorder. Similar to the Returning Home Ohio program, Community Transition is supported by and in collaboration with the Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (OMHAS).
IN partnership with local organizations, Community Transition has successfully housed more than 1,200 people and ending their cycle of incarceration, mental instability, and substance use.
Why Our Approach Works
- A philosophy that addresses housing as the most critical need first.
- Comprehensive support services tailored to individual needs.
- Strong partnerships between housing, state agencies and service providers.
- Data-driven implementation and outcome tracking.
- A commitment from state’s departments of corrections to reduce both recidivism and public costs.
“Returning Home” is now a Must-See New Film Available for Streaming
Too often, people leave prison with nothing—no job, no ID, no support. It’s a setup for failure that leads many right back to homelessness, arrest, and incarceration. But in Ohio, a groundbreaking approach is changing that narrative. Returning Home: The Choice That Changes Everything, offers a powerful look inside a reentry program where stable housing is the first step toward independence and a new beginning.
What if the key to breaking the cycle of incarceration is as simple as a place to call home? Returning Home is now available for streaming.
Contact Us
Contact us to start a conversation on how replicating Returning Home or Community Transition in your state.