The Source forHousing Solutions

Returning Home Ohio

Permanent Supportive Housing for Ex-Offenders

October 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

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

11

35

80

33

39

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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