FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2008
Talbert House receives Clifford Skeen Award
The agency's Community Correctional Center receives honors
as Ohio's best Community Based Correctional Facility
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| Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction presents Talbert House Community Correctional Center with the 2008 Clifford Skeen award in Columbus. |
CINCINNATI—Talbert House accepted the 2008 Clifford Skeen Award in Columbus on October 9 for Community Correctional Center of Butler, Clermont and Warren Counties. CCC received the honor from Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction as the best Community Based Correctional Facility in Ohio.
CCC is a 72-bed facility located in Warren County. Open since 1995, CCC provides residential assessment, treatment, and reintegration programming for adult male felony offenders from the three counties. In fiscal year 2008, CCC had a 90 percent successful completion rate with 74 percent of clients maintaining employment for at least 90 days after their discharge.
The Clifford Skeen Award is given by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to demonstrate commitment to community corrections as a viable alternative to incarceration. The award was first presented in 1993 and is given in honor of the late, eight-term Ohio Representative, Clifford Skeen, who sponsored the Community Correction Act passed by the Ohio Legislature in July 1979. The purpose of this act was to reduce the number of non-dangerous offenders being sent to state prisons.
There are 18 Community Based Correctional Facilities in Ohio. Talbert House received its first Clifford Skeen Award in 2000 for its halfway house programs in Hamilton County and its second in 2005 for Turtle Creek Center in Warren County.
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 25,000 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.
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