How DoEs HOPE LETTERS WORK?

HOPE Letters’ purpose is to encourage and mentor men and women during their final months of incarceration. Through HOPE Letters, we desire to develop healthy, meaningful, encouraging relationships between trained and equipped members of our faith community and the incarcerated in the institutions we serve.
Currently, we are working with DCI (Dayton Correctional Institution) and WCI (Warren Correctional Institution) to discover residents who anticipate release and return to Warren, Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Clermont Counties within 12-18 months to participate in HOPE Letters.
Interested in being a HOPE Letters Writer! We would love to tell you more. Just sign up below!
Currently, we are working with DCI (Dayton Correctional Institution) and WCI (Warren Correctional Institution) to discover residents who anticipate release and return to Warren, Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Clermont Counties within 12-18 months to participate in HOPE Letters.
Interested in being a HOPE Letters Writer! We would love to tell you more. Just sign up below!
HOPE Letters Group Responsibilities:
- Letters will offer encouragement, non-judgmental relationships, faith-sharing, and mentoring. Correspondents will be of the same gender: men will write only to men, women will write only to women. Our work will be informed by ODRC policies, mentoring best practices, and the HOPE Letters Manual.
- Our HOPE Letters team will meet monthly for on-going learning and teamwork. We covenant to work together to support one another in this ministry for accountability purposes. And, we understand the importance of maintaining confidentiality.
- Mentors will use their first names only, and will only use the FourSeven mailing address. Members of the HOPE Letters team will commit to write 1-2 letters per month, and participate for a minimum of 12 months. The Four-Seven will work closely with the DCI and WCI Chaplains to manage all correspondence. Hope letters mentors will not be granted access to any ODRC facility as a visitor, guest, or volunteer. Mentors will disclose any future requests to become a visitor anywhere within ODRC.