home for good | Some facts

Rose Carter, executive director of ACTION, Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing our Neighborhoods, said the faith-based community organization has partnered with policy-makers and service providers to assist formerly incarcerated individuals through Home for Good Re-Entry Resource Referral Center. She also serves on the re-entry board and also represents Greater Friendship Baptist Church Dress to Succeed Ministry.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Thursdays.

Contact information: 330-743-3700.

Re-entry advisory members: Patrick Kerrigan, executive director, Oak Hill Collaborative; Dr. M. Rosie Thompson Taylor, board president and retired director of Regional Nursing Homes; Victor Russell, vice president and Apprisen executive director, (formerly Consumer Credit): Elnora Sipp, community leader and Home for Good secretary; Dr. Tammy King, treasurer, Youngstown State University; Roy Austin, returning citizen; Martha Conyer, Free Indeed Ministries of Warren; Guy Burney of Community Initiative to Reduce Violence; John Jamison, community leader and retiree of children’s services; Felecia Braswell, Akron Region re-entry coordinator; Rebecca Soldan, Mahoning Valley Organizing Collaborative; the Rev. Willie Peterson, Center for Community Empowerment at Rockford Activity Center; Toni Tablack, Mahoning County Job and Family Services/Child Support; and Renee Johnson, McGuffey Center.

Other partners: Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership, Youngstown Municipal Housing Authority and Eastern Gateway Community College.