"TOUCH" is an Inmate and Ex-offender Mentoring Program which offers a common sense approach for ex-offenders that addresses issues such as job training, employment, education, post-release housing, substance abuse, and prison mentoring.

"TOUCH" is designed to address ex-offenders needs who have completed their sentences but are at risk of re-offending upon release because they lack the education, job and life skills, and stable family and/or living arrangements needed to successfully reintegrate into society.

THE PROBLEM: Ex-Offender Recidivism

Programs currently available offer merely short-term solutions to long-term problems. There indeed exist a need to have a change in thinking and approach. It is time to address the dire situation of prisoners entering our communities with little or no job skills, inadequate drug treatment, insufficient housing, lack of positive influences, and basic life skills.

These huge numbers of released prisoners each year and the out of control recidivism rates are surely a recipe for disaster which leads to damage, hardship, and even death for victims; ruined futures and lost potential for re-offenders; and a huge drain on society at large. One particular vulnerable group is the children of these offenders. Society can not become resigned to allowing generation after generation enter and re-enter prisons. This pernicious cycle must come to an end.

MISSION: "TOUCH", as a pre-release and ex-offender program provides a productive and positive life transformation through an Inmate Mentoring Program.

SLOGAN: "If you are serious about yourself, we are serious about you".

GOAL: Implementing Inmate Mentoring Program services which includes transitional programming for pre-release  inmates and post-release ex-offenders (less than 18 months remaining on sentence), and 6 months ex-offender programming.

PURPOSE: The purpose of the "TOUCH" Inmate Mentoring Program is to carve a path for a client's honest attempts toward; 1) productive community reintegration as a law abiding citizen; 2) to obtain and hold employment; 3) learn and exercise proper money management while pursuing all which enable clients to remain crime free, as well as, enjoy and sustain a life o freedom, responsibility, dependability, and success.