Alvis House Highlights for 2006-07

Alvis House provided residential programs, treatment programs, cognitive therapy, employment services, habilitation services and/or monitoring services to more than 3,000 men, women, young adults and children in Columbus, Dayton, Chillicothe and Toledo.

Programs and Services

•          Alvis House opened a new residential treatment program for female offenders and now operates two all female facilities and two coed facilities.

•          Alvis House began the Young Adult Reentry Program in conjunction with the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS). Transitional services are provided for youth who will return to Franklin County in three phases: in the institution, in the community, and post-supervision. DYS also awarded OhioLink a contract to provide residential and treatment services for older youth returning to the Toledo area.

•          The agency opened a new, 40 bed facility for men referred by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) at 40 W. Long Street.

•          The Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addictions Services audited and certified 1991 Bryden Road to provide outpatient chemical dependency treatment services.

•          At the beginning of 2006, Alvis House implemented a pilot project at the Price Hall treatment program for clients with substance abuse and mental health issues. Before the year was out, Dr. Randy Shively had already published “Treating Co-Occurring Disorders in a Community Corrections Setting,” in the Journal of Community Corrections.

•          The Employment Services Program, which has been nationally recognized for the number of job placements they obtain for a challenging population, expanded through new contracts with the Franklin County Department of Job and Family Services and Central Ohio Workforce Investment Corporation.

•          Cope Center in Dayton and the three Bryden Road facilities in Columbus were re-accredited by the American Correctional Association.

Community Relations

•          Alvis House held a very successful 40^th Anniversary Celebration at the Ohio Statehouse in April 2007.

•          A delegation from the Signapore Prisons Service visited the agency to learn more about community corrections programs and a delegation from The Netherlands visited to see how the Equip Program is used in a community corrections setting.

•          Eric McFadden, director of the Governor’s Office of Faith Based and Community Initiatives, and his staff have visited both the Alvis House Children of Incarcerated Parents program at London Correctional Institution and at 1780 East Broad Street.

•          Clients provided more than 12,000 hours of community service, including working for the Red Cross to help victims of Hurricane Katrina; constructing booths for the Home and Garden Show in Columbus; painting the city pool in Chillicothe; serving meals and providing other community service at the Cherry Street Mission in Toledo; and working at the Realtor Care Day, sponsored by United Way in Columbus, to install new storm doors, paint and do other projects at Mwanza Place, a complex for low-income families.

Staff and Volunteer Activities

•          Agency staff accumulated more than 13,000 hours of training.

•          The agency began a Staff Wellness Program.

•          Volunteers contributed nearly 1,000 hours of service devoted to activities such as life skills education, literacy tutoring, creative writing, spiritual enrichment and other topics.

•          Staff pledged more than $31,000 - a 20% increase over 2005 - to United Way.

Financial

•          The agency’s overall revenues increased from $7.4 million to $8.4 million in 2006 and projections show that revenues will increase to $9.3 million dollars by the end of 2007.

•          The United Way allocation nearly doubled, from $171,000 to $313,000.

•          Ended the year with a net fund balance of $127,441.

Media

•          Alvis House has gotten some excellent media coverage so far in 2007, including television interviews about our programs in conjunction with the anniversary celebration and earlier in the year about our use of Global Position Satellite monitoring technology; Denise Robinson had an op ed in the Columbus Dispatch on the benefits of community corrections; and WOSU-Radio carried a four part series on the Young Adult Reentry Program.