Shield Ministries

Served 105 men in the post-release educational housing program providing crisis stablization services, regulatory compliance services, cognitive behavioral learning, workforce development and spirit development. Served an additional 65 men in the twelve week men in transition program (mit) in the sc department of corrections (scdc). Two classes were held at macdougall correctional institution with 46 men graduating from the program. One class was held at allendale with a total of 19 graduates.

Shield Ministries merged with freshstart visions. The merger increased productivity and decreased overhead costs enabling Shield Ministries to provide services to the largest number of admits in the organization's history. 105 men spent a combined total of 14,915 nights in the Shield Ministries program in 2022 of which 45 men received 30 day program fee assistance (1,191 nights) from the sc probation, parole and pardon services funding award.

In 2022, we implemented munissions re-entry software system. Our re-entry specialists use munissions for student assessments, goal planning, progress tracking, and referral services. Through munissions we are able to capture student data, responses, assessments, and activity which automatically feed into munissions. Another vital industry module of munissions is the ability to perform readiness to change predictions using the urica scale (university of rhode island change assessment scale). It additionally reports on the risk of recidivism through multiple assessments as well as goal tracking and individual data entry designed to identify criminogenic needs. "this comprehensive software solution streamlines intake, tracking, reporting, and analysis so you can easily understand and improve intervention efforts." Httpswwwmunissioncoreentrymunissi... also provides the ability to refer our students out for professional care. The implementation of munissions not only provides better outcomes for our students but it streamlines our processes and enables us to quickly identify and address necessary intervention measures.