NEHEMIAH VILLAGE

POSSIBILITIES. TRANSFORMATION. RESTORATION.

THE CHALLENGE

Research, focus groups & testimonies of returning citizens have demonstrated that stable living arrangements and mentorship are crucial to successful reentry. Successful reentry programs rely on more than just helping ex-offenders find housing and jobs. It also requires helping offenders change their attitudes and beliefs about themselves, authority, crime, address mental health issues, provide mentoring, offer educational opportunities, and job preparedness.

OUR MISSION

The mission of Nehemiah Village is to be a resource of possibilities and transformation for formerly-incarcerated men, helping to return and restore them to our communities.  Using the tool of communal housing as our primary means of service, we will provide these returning citizens with:

  • safe housing
  • help in finding employment
  • help with obtaining education and employable job skills
  • spiritual guidance
  • life-skills
  • counseling
  • mentoring
  • opportunities to serve others
  • meaningful community
  • help with home ownership

THE SOLUTION

Working alongside the investment of WSU, the city and federal government into the 67214 area, we wish to address the needs of returning persons to this area, so that this investment product is kept intact, and lives can be transformed.

Using the successful re-entry model of Working Men of Christ reentry ministry (recidivism rate of 5% over 9 years), we offer stable housing (2 houses), faith-based, highly structured community, high accountability, practical support and employment help. Each house will house 10 persons and 2 administrators.

THE NEED

We are looking to partner with donors who can embrace the vision and see the need to support this vision of restoration. Our goal is to raise $5M for construction and early operations.

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HERE IS WHAT WE PLAN TO BUILD. WILL YOU JOIN US?

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THE CHALLENGES ARE REAL

REAL CHALLENGES NEED REAL SOLUTIONS

The challenges that the men in this video have faced are being faced by men returning to their community right here in Wichita. Learn more about our powerful re-entry program that reduces recidivism by 95%, and creates restoration & transformation, by meeting these challenges head on.

Unstable Housing Increases Risks
Being homeless, unstably housed, or living in a high crime neighborhood all heighten an individual’s risk of reoffending.
Incarceration & Unemployment
On average, formerly incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate of 27 percent, according to research by the Prison Policy Institute.
Education & Reentry
While incarcerated, and even after release from prison, we find that people rarely get the chance to make up for the educational opportunities from which they’ve been excluded — opportunities that impact their chances of reentry success.

The challenges that the men in this video have faced are being faced by men returning to their community right here in Wichita. Learn more about our powerful re-entry program that reduces recidivism by 95%, and creates restoration & transformation, by meeting these challenges head on.

Unstable Housing Increases Risks
Being homeless, unstably housed, or living in a high crime neighborhood all heighten an individual’s risk of reoffending.
Incarceration & Unemployment
On average, formerly incarcerated people are unemployed at a rate of 27 percent, according to research by the Prison Policy Institute.
Education & Reentry
While incarcerated, and even after release from prison, we find that people rarely get the chance to make up for the educational opportunities from which they’ve been excluded — opportunities that impact their chances of reentry success.

OUR SPONSORS

we are so grateful for their ministry partnership
Our Sponsor: Working Men of Christ Ministries
Our Sponsor: Saint Mark UMC
Our Sponsor: GLMV Architecture
Our Sponsor: Mennonite Central Committee
Our Sponsor: Great Plains United Methodists
Our Sponsor: Nehemiah Village
Our Sponsor: Floyd Construction
Our Sponsor: Empowered

You can positively impact the life of a returning citizen (& your community) by donating NOW!

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A Community for Ex-offenders in Wichita

LEARN HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT OUR MISSION

We are looking to partner with donors who can embrace the vision and see the need to support this vision of restoration. Our goal is to raise $2M to begin construction late spring-early summer 2022.

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Join us for a 40 minute Zoom webinar to learn:

how to make a difference in your community by lowering recidivism
become a mentor to a returning citizen
provide an opportunity for wraparound housing support, job counseling, access to education, and the right hand of Christian fellowship
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Then they said, “Let us start building!” So they committed themselves to the common good. Nehemiah 2:18

Then they said, “Let us start building!” So they committed themselves to the common good. Nehemiah 2:18