• Provide a structured living environment that encourages, promotes, and enhances each resident's recovery and transition
  
• Each resident has secured permanent housing
  
• Each resident possesses a Graduation Equivalency Diploma
  
• Each resident has secured full-time employment
  
• Each resident has received training and experience in (3) marketable job skills 
  
• Each resident has fulfilled all financial responsibilities
  
• Each resident has established an interest-gaining account of $1,000 or more
  
• Each resident is an active sponsor, mentor, and/or accountability partner to another
  
• ​Each resident is an active and contributing member of a community religious group
  

Witness International, Inc.

Through establishment of our Christian transitional living and recovery center, newly released ex-offenders discover help, hope, and healing and are better prepared to live and work in the community as productive and responsible citizens.
 

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Program Criteria

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Program Goals

• Applicants must be male, (18) years of age or older
• Applicants must be in a controlled environment (28) days prior to residency
• Applicants must be generally in good physical, emotional, and mental health
• Applicants must be willing to become a productive member of the community
• Applicants must be willing to commit to the completion of a structured Program
• Applicants must have demonstrated cooperative behavior throughout incarceration
• Applicants convicted of arson are not accepted
• Applicants on psychotropic medications are not accepted
• ​Applicants with primary mental health deficiencies are not accepted
  
• Applicants convicted of adult or child sexual offenses are not accepted
  
• Applicants lacking financial resources and/or reserves are not accepted
• Applicants unwilling to submit to authority and direction are not accepted
  
• Applicants lacking motivation toward personal growth and change are not accepted