A Note from the Executive Director 

GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!!!

ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!!

We sing it.  Do we believe it?  God shows His goodness and we stand in AWE!!!  That is His nature.  We so often take for granite His goodness.  We have been the recipient of His goodness so much that we fail to even recognize His expression of goodness.

God has proven His promise of provision today as He does every day.  We sent out an urgent request for financial help for the purpose of ordering more study guides, “Walking the 12 Steps with Jesus Christ”.  The response has been overwhelmingly miraculous. 

I recently read an article and copied it and forgot to get the name of the author or the source of the article. So I hope I don't step on any ones toes for copying, editing the article to fit in with our agenda at Christian 12 Step it to our web page.
Hopefully it will encourage us to consider the costs of recidivism and explore programs that will decrease recidivism.

Cutting recidivism saves money and lives
If two-thirds of public school students dropped out, or two-thirds of all bridges built collapsed within three years, would citizens tolerate it?
The people of Florida would never stand for that kind of failure. But that is exactly what is happening all across the U.S. in our prison systems.
Last year hundreds of inmates with substance abuse problems were released from Florida’s prisons to re-enter our communities.

If trends of the past decade continue, two-thirds of them will be rearrested within three years. That failure rate is a clear and present threat to public safety.
Not only is this revolving door a threat to public safety, but it results in an increasing burden on each and every taxpayer.
The Florida corrections budget exceeded 2 billion dollars in 2009, nearly 6 percent of the state’s general funds. Read more...