About iT Takes A Village
iTAV It Takes a Village Inc is a non-profit organization that prioritizes housing and appropriate support services to the justice involved population. The main goal of the organization is to provide suitable housing and a ‘safe haven’ simultaneously while this targeted demographic transition from the prison back into the community. The program steps, when properly and adequately engaged, should reduce, if not eliminate many barriers to a successful re-introduction to and into society.
iTAV outsources specialize services to proven providers through a closely coordinated and individualized plan for success. These services include employment services, mental health services, spiritual support, housing-focused case management, and transportation assistance. Each individual plan for success will be arrived through a system of triage and assessment, based on individual current needs. The result will mean a network (village) of service providers and professionals to aid them in their quest to become productive
Our Mission
iTAV's mission is the profoundly, positive reshaping of rehabilitated humanity and it’s careful and artful reintroduction into mainstream society.
Our Vision
iTAV envisions being an evidence-based model that will focus on the ways housing and supportive services, in and of itself, can support successful reentry and lead to better reintegration outcomes for the
formerly incarcerated.
Our Goals
A re-tooling of current and failing models, to facilitate a reliable successful system of renewal and re-entry for past prison populations.
Partner with communities to reintegrate ex-offenders and heal family relationships and communities in a spirit of restorative justice
To force a network (Village), that at once aids and assists, enlightens and educates, one that cultivates and challenges individuals to envision themselves in the
area of success.