This service that you perform is not only supplying the needs of the Lord’s people but is also overflowing in many expressions of thanks to God.
2 Corinthians 9: 12

Beyond Prison Walls

Ex-offenders often face a complex variety of challenges after release from prison. These challenges evolve throughout their rehabilitation journey beginning from immediate release to several years after release:

  • Financial and material needs (financial stability, shelter)
  • Job sustainability
  • Tensions or estrangement in family relationships
  • Lack of pro-social community
  • Breaking of old addictive behaviour
  • Rebuilding identity and purpose

Community Support

CCS volunteers together work to form a pro-social community for ex-offenders in their rehabilitation journey. CCS volunteers continue their befriending to ex-offenders, providing support to both the ex-offenders and their immediate families apart from the help they are already receiving from social support agencies. This takes place through community gatherings, one-to-one personal interaction with volunteers or introducing ex-offenders to other pro-social or church communities among CCS’s network of community partners.

Although CCS volunteers may not be able to meet every area of need of an ex-offender’s rehabilitation, they stand ready to assist by utilizing CCS’s network of social agency partners, making referrals as needed.

Aftercare Highlights

Aftercare is dependent on CCS volunteers who walk the extra mile with our beneficiaries in various capacities:

  • One-to-one support (CCS volunteers serve as befrienders or volunteer case officers to ex-offenders)
  • Regular community gatherings (weekly or bi-weekly)
  • Family support (home visits to ex-offenders’ families)
  • Ad-hoc community events and excursions
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