Today Rebuilding Ex-Offenders Successfully Through Opportunities, Rehabilitation and Education or R.E.S.T.O.R.E. broke ground on its new Transitional housing Quadplex in Jacksonville’s Durkeeville neighborhood.
“R.E.S.T.O.R.E. is a non-profit; we provide safe housing and services to former incarcerated women,” Rebecca Smith said, Founder and Executive Director of R.E.S.T.O.R.E.
Right now, R.E.S.T.O.R.E. has two transitional houses, which are where the women first go when they are released from prison. They also have one ‘step up house’, which is the next step towards living independently. The Quadplex will be the final stage before the women live on their own…