YOU CAN HELP TRANSFORM
A MAN’S LIFE
By becoming a partner in the Clergy-Bond Pretrial Release Program.
WHAT IS THE CLERGY BOND PROGRAM (CBP)?
Today, there are approximately 1150 men incarcerated in St. Louis County Jail with 232 who meet our criteria of being non-violent and non-sexually charged. These men are charged with lower-level C, D felonies and misdemeanors and are awaiting their court dates.
The St. Louis County Justice Services Department including: correctional officers, case managers, case supervisors, floor managers, and the Director of Justice Services screen, evaluate and vet and recommend potential candidates to The Clergy Bond Manager who further vets and also assess these potential candidates. Once approved, the The Clergy Bond Manager advocates for them to a highly experienced PRT Group consisting of prosecutors, public & private defenders, judges, mental health professionals, plus the Director of Justice Services.
If approved by this group, these men are referred back to their attorney, their case prosecutor and ultimately their judge to work out a proposal for them to be released to The Clergy Bond Program’s Home Plan.
I. JUSTICE SERVICES
A FAITH BASED, BIBLICAL PROGRAM
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires;
Ephesians 4:22
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.
Matthew 25:35-36
We believe that only God can truly transform a person’s life.
II. OUR CLERGY MENTORS
A newly created position/role in the Clergy Bond Program are the Clergy-Mentors (C-M’s) who are experience pastors (clergy) and other church leaders who come along side and closely walk with an assigned “resident”. Note: to date we have 15 men who have signed up to be Clergy Mentors.
C-M’S GROUPS WILL BE ASSIGNED TO EVERY RESIDENT
C-M’S WILL CONDUCT INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENTS & EVALUATIONS
C-M’S WILL ASSIGN PROFESSIONAL
COUNSELING SESSIONS
HELP TO FIND HOUSING (LONGER-TERM)
ADDICTION CLASSES
SEEK AFTER INTERNSHIP PROGRAMS
COOKING/RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT
TRANSPORTATION
(BUS PASSES, ETC.)
C-M’S WILL ASSIGN INDIVIDUALLY TAILORED CLASSES
GED/COLLEGE CLASSES
GODLY FATHERING
CONFLICT RESOLUTION
JOB PREP AND JOB PLACEMENT
BASIC FINANCIAL COMPETENCY
FITNESS TRAINING
ANGER MANAGEMENT CLASSES
THE CLERGY BOND PROGRAM IS TARGETED TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM
We believe the Clergy Bond Program has the potential to significantly reduce recidivism because of it’s unique, one of a kind partnership with:
Justice Services
Clergy Mentors
An approved safe Home Plan.
A recent national Justice Department study of more than 400,000 prisoners found that 83% of them after release will be arrested again and brought back to jail and prison. That’s an 8.3 out of 10.0 “recidivism rate”.
Our Clergy Bond Program will pilot test if we can reduce the recidivism rate from 83% to, hopefully, 63%, and if we can, we will save a significant amount of tax-payer money every year.
If we can reduce this recidivism rate by 20 percentage points, that’s 23.6 men (of the 118 men from our targeted group) at a cost of $120/day to house them in jail/prison x365 days/year or over $1,000,000 a year. And, if the recidivism reduction is 30 percentage points, that’s 36.1 men or over $1,500,000 a year in savings.
Also, many of the jail/prison population in St. Louis are released back into their communities and do not have an approved home plan or support system and many of these men and women end up homeless and living on the street. Hence additional savings can be realized if we can keep them from ending up on the streets.
QUOTES FROM OUR FOUNDERS AND LEADERS
When I served as Director of Justice Services…our mantra was...“DIGNITY and HOPE”…and, I am pleased that this mantra continues on today for The Clergy-Bond Program…"to encourage everyone…to treat everyone...with "DIGNITY and HOPE”.
Doug Burris. Co-founder/Co-Creator of the CBPTRP, retired
I believe this "Clergy-Bond Program” is unique/unlike any other jail & prison program in the U.S. today…as it incorporates the three critical ingredients: Justice Services Department’s experience and expertise'; the new Clergy/Clergy Mentors role; and a comprehensive safe-home plan. And, it was originally created and is designed today to help men and women...to find, and to choose a sustainable God honoring life which is free from crime and drugs.
Scott Anders, Director StL. Justice Services, retired
I am celebrating my 38th year in jail and prison ministry. And, increasingly every day, I see how addictions and criminal activities can destroy a man’s life, his family’s lives, his neighborhood, and his community. And, many men and women do not have any hope that they can turn their lives around.
The Clergy Bond Program can be a resource of hope and can be part of the transformation of their lives and lead them back to be godly fathers of their sons and daughters.
Ted Winters, Pastor-Chaplain, StL. County Justice Services
I have been working in the field of corrections for over 30 years and the one thing I have learned is, “change is possible.” The Clergy-Bond Program offers men and women the opportunity to get a fresh new start at becoming the person God intended them to be. In this program, we take away the excuses for continued failure and we work hard teaching, mentoring and counselling the men to set them up for success as new returning citizens of freedom. This new freedom comes from a relationship with Jesus Christ. He is the only one who can give “true freedom.”
Lori Rodgers, Manager, Clergy-Bond Program
BECOME A PARTNER TODAY
THERE ARE SIX LEVEL OF SUPPORTING PARTNERSHIPS:
FOUNDATIONAL/LEAD CHURCH OR INDIVIDUAL PARTNER
Sponsoring a man’s rent ($400/mo.) and food plan ($300/mo.) totaling $700/mo., $8,400/year
A CLERGY-MENTOR PARTNER
A gift of time and heart to walk along-side, mentor and model to an assigned resident
A REGULAR SUPPORTING PARTNER (APT RENT)
A men’s rent expense ($400/mo.) $4,800/year.
A REGULAR SUPPORTING PARTNER (FOOD)
A man’s 3 meal-a-day food plan ($300/mo.) $3,600/year
A REGULAR SUPPORTING PARTNER
$250/mo, $3,000/year for expenses e.g. bus passes, clothes, shoes, snacks and entertainment
A ONE TIME DONATION OF SUPPORT
Support the Clergy Bond Program with a one time gift
If you want to become a partner today with the Clergy Bond Program, checks should be made payable to New Man New Community (a 501(c)3 not-for-profit) and mailed to New Man New Community at P.O. Box 221300 Kirkwood, MO 63122.
ADVISORY AND ACTING BOARDS OF DIRECTORS AND CLERGY-MENTORS
OUR "ADVISORY" BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OUR "ACTING" BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OUR "CLERGY-MENTORS" (as of 12/03/22)
Bishop Michael F. Jones, Friendly Temple MB Church, Lead Pastor
Dr. Clay Smith, Central Presbyterian Church, Lead Pastor
Brent Roam, One Family Church, Lead Pastor
Mitchell T. Rozanski, Archbishop, St. Louis Archdiocese
Doug Burris, Retired Director, St. Louis County Justice Services
Tad Edwards, Chairman and CEO, Benjamin F. Edwards and Co.
Bob Ebel, retired CEO, Universal Printing Co.
Scott Anders, Director, St. Louis County Justice Services
Randy Holman, Deputy Director, St. Louis County Justice Services
William Wilson, Pastor, Director of RFE, Lutheran Denomination
Tyler Neyens, Associate Paster, One Family Church and CBP Website Developer, NineDesignCo
Ted Winters, Pastor/Chaplain St. Louis County Justice Services
Cedric Jones, Friendly Temple MB Church, Minister
Benjamin Tzeng, Central Presbyterian Church, Pastor of Community & Outreach
Cole Lescher, Central Presbyterian Church, Pastor of Youth, College & Young Adults
Randy Holeman, Deputy Director, St. Louis County Justice Services
Lori Rodgers, Manager, Clergy Bond Program
Tyler Neyens, Associate Paster, One Family Church and CBP Website Developer, NineDesignCo
William Wilson, Pastor, Director of RFE, Lutheran Denomination
Jennifer Prophete, Director Community Programming, Global Ministries Lutheran Hour Ministries
Ted Winters, Pastor/Chaplain St. Louis County Justice Services
Cedric Jones, Ben Tzeng, Cole Lescher, Neal Nielsen, John McGowan, Gene Fahrenkrog, Bishop Luther Baker, Marlon Chambers, Mike Duffy, Tom Buckley, Carter Kennedy, Marco Vandergrapf, Tom Curtis, Lori Rodgers
