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Journey house: sisters walk with women post prison.

While other halfway homes have security cameras, on-site parole officers, and around-the-clock security, Journey House has Sister Martha — greeting, hugging and listening to all — who helps provide the security these women want. She further fosters well-being by leading a 12-step program for these women and others in the community.

Fifteen women reside at Journey House for up to 90 days. Since its opening in September 2015, over 200 women have called it their home. The demand is so great, it’s booked six months out. Although it serves those most prone to re-incarceration — those with mental illness, addiction and a history of going in and out of prison — less than five percent have returned to prison, a remarkable feat, considering the national recidivism rate is 68 percent.

What makes Journey House so successful that a former resident held her wedding reception at the home? To the sisters and women, the answer is simple — they are a family.

It was the vision of Georgia Walker, executive director at Journey to New Life (JTNL), to establish Journey House, with the aid of Sister Rose McLarney. Sister Rose’s background in restorative justice for former inmates made her a natural choice to help launch this innovative program. Sisters Martha, Gabrielle Smits and Patty Clune, all enthusiastically joined the call to serve their dear neighbor by living and _ministering with them. For the residents, most of whom had never met a nun, Sister Martha laughs, “They didn’t know what to expect and then they saw we were old sisters!”

In loving memory of Dr. Georgia K. Walker

Mar 8, 2022

It is with great sadness we announce our beloved Dr. Georgia K. Walker, Journey to New Life’s co-founder and Executive Director, passed away unexpectedly Monday, March 7th, 2022, peacefully surrounded by her immediate family and friends. Georgia was a true visionary...

KMBC 9 News : Kansas Citians struggling to pay rent can get help through city program

Mar 19, 2021

KANSAS CITY, MO — Kansas Citians struggling to pay rent or utilities can get some help through the city’s emergency assistance program. The city says $4.5 million is available for the program. That money comes from the stimulus package passed by Congress in December,...

Connections Magazine, Fall 2017: Sisters Walk With Women Rebuilding Their Lives After Prison at Journey House

Nov 8, 2017

A roller coaster of activity surrounds Sister Martha Niemann from her peaceful perch in the living room at Journey House, a transitional home in Kansas City, Missouri, for women returning from prison. She takes it all in: from a sister returning from the bus station...

KC program that houses female ex-convicts with nuns hopes to replace lost state funding

May 18, 2017

Trading cellmates for nuns. Some women leaving Missouri prisons say a place called Journey House, one of the programs under Journey to New Life, is life-changing. Now the people who run Journey House as well as other Journey to New Life programs hope next year’s state...

America’s prisons: How life after prison is a caste system

Fifty-eight-year-old Loren May is proud of his apartment and everything in it. When he was released from prison in 2014 after nine years, he was given $43 and told to get a job and stay away from other convicted felons if he wanted to stay out of prison. May was...

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