FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 28, 2010
Talbert House receives grant from Pepsi Refresh Project
The agency's Community Correctional Center receives funds for its GED program
CINCINNATI—Talbert House recently received a $25,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh Project for the agency’s Community Correctional Center to purchase GED preparation materials.
The grant is part of the year-long Pepsi Refresh Project, a philanthropic endeavor where $20 million will be given in 2010 to project ideas that garner the most votes monthly on the website, refresheverything.com.
The grant received by Talbert House is the fourth grant to be awarded in Ohio so far this year.
Talbert House Community Correctional Center (CCC), a community based correctional facility located in Warren County, provides a GED program for its clients. Since 1995, 680 clients have earned GEDs during their stay at CCC.
CCC provides assessment, treatment, and reintegration programming for adult male felony offenders from Butler, Clermont, and Warren Counties.
The monies from the Pepsi Refresh Project will be used to purchase material and computers to help students become prepared to take and pass Ohio’s GED test.
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Talbert House is a community-wide nonprofit network of social services with 30 proven programs focusing on prevention, assessment, treatment and reintegration. Each year, Talbert House helps 24,000 men, women and children across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky overcome adversity to become healthy and productive citizens through its programs in community corrections, mental health, substance abuse and welfare-to-work.
