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- EIN 59-3637543
- (407) 252-6123
- 1700 N Monroe St Ste 11 Pmb 185 Tallahassee FL 32303-0501 USA
- www.horizoncommunities.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Crime & Law, Half-Way Houses for Offenders & Ex-Offenders, Inmate Support, Rehabilitation Services for Offenders
Mission: Horizon communities prepare inmates to live responsibly with others and transition back into society. Program staff oversee implementation of volunteer-led, faith and character-based programs of personal responsibility, life skills, family responsibility, employability; also included are financial literacy, computer literacy, education, job-certificate programs and community-living skills.
Programs: Mentoring, transition preparation and computer literacy labs continued expand the curriculum, focusing on life skills, family responsibility, cognitive renewal, financial literacy, re-entry preparation, stress reduction, and post-release resources such as housing, transportation, health, job centers and specialized job skills. Measurable increases are charted in inmates personal and family responsibility and employability. Over 50% experience family reunification. Disciplinary infractions continue to be reduced more than 50% or more as in previous years and in comparison to other prisons in the states. Recidivism, where measured, ranges between single digits and 14%. Program supplies and workbooks are provided to achieve these goals, directly affecting over 2,500 inmates and their families and volunteers. (indirectly, over 5000 inmates, families, volunteers. ) curricula vary among horizon communities.
a new emphasis was placed on computer assisted education and ged preparation in collaboration with new century education. Nce technical staff assisted in expanding educational opportunities in the horizon literacy labs which used to be tv rooms. Estimated numbers reached directly, 2000. Many more reached via the website.
the florida department of corrections requested horizon communities to expand its life-skills quest and education programs into two women's prison for the first time. This began late in mid-2014 and remains on-going.