Rev. Carmen Warner Robbins - Program Speaker

Rev. Carmen Warner Robbins, Executive Director, Welcome Home Ministry was the program speaker October 20, 2016.  The mission of Welcome Home Ministries is to provide holistic faith-based, peer-driven supportive services for women in transition from incarceration into the community on an ongoing basis by renewing lives and restoring families. The rate of women returning to jail after being released nationally is 80%. The women in the Welcome Home program have a rate of only 13% by creating a Christ-centered program offering caring services through case management, referrals to Welcome Home community partners and a peer to peer mentoring model proven to work. One of their services is dental services provided at the St. Leo's Dental Clinic.