Executive Summary: Faith-Based Substance Abuse Transitional Housing Programs

Faith-Based Substance Abuse Transitional Housing Programs (FBTH) assist released inmates by providing substance abuse re-entry and relapse prevention services, transitional housing, and other support services. The program also provides housing, three meals a day, electricity, access to local telephone service, job placement assistance, and other transitional services. The target population for this program is recently released inmates with histories of substance use/abuse problems, particularly those who have completed a Department in-prison or community-based drug treatment program, and are in need of transitional housing and services upon their release from incarceration. Program participants do not have to be under Department supervision to participate. Enrollment in the program is strictly voluntary, however, all enrolled program participants are required to participate in program activities and abide by program rules. Program participants may not be discharged for failure to participate in faith-based components of the program.

Profiles of Faith-Based Substance Abuse Transitional Housing Programs On June 30, 2006
Facility	Population	Number of Program Slots
		Male	Female
Fresh Start Ministries of Central Florida	Male	12	0
Good News Foster Home	Male	11	0
Harbor House Group	Male	19	0
Jim Russo Ministries, Inc.	Male	15	0
Lamb of God Ministries (Pompano)	Male	15	0
Lamb of God Ministries (Okeechobee)	Male	5	0
Florida Crown Workforce/on Eagles wings	Male / Female	6	4
The Transition House, Inc.	33 Non-Gender Specific Beds
House of Refuge Ministries, Inc.	Male	5	0
Noah Community Outreach, Inc.	Male / Female	22	3
Prisoners of Christ	Male	18	0
Salvation Army (Bradenton)	Male	20	0
Salvation Army (Jacksonville)	Male	18	0
Salvation Army (St. Petersburg)	Male / Female	28	9
Sanctuary Mission	Male / Female	4	2
Sisters, Inc.	Male / Female	6	8
Positive Images Enterprises, Inc.	Female	0	6
Family Crisis Help Center, Inc.	Male	36	0
New Life Outreach Ministry, Inc.	Male	10	0
Freedom Outpost Ministries, Inc.	Male / Female	12	4
Total		295	36

Profiles of Faith-Based Substance Abuse Transitional Housing Programs Closed During FY 2005-06
Facility	Status	Facility Capacity
Time for Freedom	December, 2005	32
Society of St. Dismas	July, 2005	22
Family Crisis/Family Rel. Enhancement	June, 2006	10
Living Hope International Ministries	January, 2006	4
Sister's (Destiny House)	June, 2006	4
Total		72

WORKLOAD

Table 8A: Faith-Based Substance Abuse Transitional Housing Program Enrollment Data, by Fiscal Year

• Faith based programs began with only 76 new enrollments in the start-up year FY 2001-02, and increased in FY 2005-06 to 820.
• As seen in the June 30th counts for each year, there were 213 offenders in the programs on 6/30/06.
• Since program start-up, 3,265 different inmates have received services.

Table 8B: FY 2005-06 Faith-Based Transitional Programs Treatment Program Enrollment Data, by Facility

• Five programs had 50 or more new enrollment events during FY 2005-06.
• On June 30, 2006, 4 programs had no enrollments; however, all programs were utilized to some extent during FY 2005-06.

Outcomes

Table 8C(1): Faith-Based Transitional Programs Outcome, by Fiscal Year, by Inmate (3-Year Follow-up After Initial Program Entry)*

• This table shows outcomes based on a three year follow-up after the offender first entered a program of this type. For FY 2002-03, faith-based transitional housing programs had a 49.2% success rate (successful exits divided by successful and unsuccessful exits.)

Table 8C(2): FY 2002-03 Faith-Based Transitional Housing Programs Outcome, by Fiscal Year, by Inmate (2-Year Follow-up After Initial Program Entry)*

• This table shows outcomes based on a two year follow-up after the offender first entered a program of this type. For FY 2003-04, faith-based transitional housing programs had a
  53.0% success rate (successful exits divided by successful and unsuccessful exits).

Table 8D: FY 2005-06 Faith-Based Transitional Programs Exit Data (Event-Based), by Program

• Reviewing the outcome of the offender’s experience in each program from which they exited, the success rate varies from 22.6% for Harbor House Group to 94.6% for Salvation Army (Jacksonville) for those programs having at least 20 participants.
• On average, these programs had a 55.1% success rate with each offender exiting their program during this fiscal year. Administrative exits averaged 4.2% for the year.

Table 8E: FY 2003-04 (2-Year Follow-up) Faith-Based Transitional Recommitment Data, by Level of Participation

• For a 2-year follow-up on faith-based participants released in FY 2003-04, program completers were less likely to be recommitted to prison or community supervision than non-completers (27.7% vs. 44.6%).

Table 8F: FY 2002-03 (3-Year Follow-up) Faith-Based Transitional Recommitment Data, by Level of Participation

• For a 3-year follow-up on faith-based participants released in FY 2002-03, program completers were less likely to be recommitted to prison or community supervision than non-completers (33.0% vs. 52.8%).