The Massachusetts Community Outreach Initiative (MCOI) is a liaison to church and community agencies for adult offenders, designed to aid the transition from the correctional institutional to the community. Its goal is to provide the offenders with a greater opportunity to succeed by creating a support system of churches and community agencies. Many offenders had connections with local churches and community agencies prior to their incarceration. MCOI helps reconnect the churches and community agencies with the offenders through institutional visits, training, and updates to the churches and community agencies in preparation for release of the offender.
MCOI will utilize a three phase program to identify, encourage, and promote the individual’s God given talents and skills to build the self-confidence and self-esteem. Our goal is create a positive support system and community family around the released individual that will ease their transition into society, reduce the rate of recidivism, and turn the institutionalized into the individualized.