How Brookside Community Reentry is helping Hoosiers improve their lives [Video]

Reentering society after incarceration, addiction or homelessness requires more than a place to call home.

Leaders at Brookside Community Development Corporation say housing is just one part of its reentry program.

“It’s life saving. It’s very important that people can come out of prison and say, ‘I can go over here and get some help.’ Instead of saying, ‘I gotta go over here and sit on the corner and wait for somebody to give me a little change,'” Ricky Wilson said.

Wilson spent just over 18 years of his life in prison.

“I got out and I just had made up my mind. I said I got to do something better,” Wilson said.

That something better, started with Brookside Community Reentry, a program created by Brookside Community Church.

Part of the reentry program includes the possibility of joining the Isaiah House Residential Program, an initiative Wilson is a part of.

“We’ve got 42 properties servicing 67 individuals. We have transitional and …