RVM Impact
Exceeding goals for job retention and reduced recidivism
By The Numbers
Over 50% Reduction
in recidivism
75% Retain Jobs
for over six months
3/1 ROI
every dollar spent in RVM services results in a $3 return to the tax base
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Our Value to the Community
RVM’s transformational human services model addresses participants at a spiritual, cognitive and behavioral level, resulting in outcomes beyond the reach of more traditional social services models.
How can RVM deliver these results?
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RVM’s benefactors’ are investing in more than community “coping mechanisms.”
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Resources are deployed in ways that go beyond the “life-sustaining” objectives of traditional welfare models – RVM doesn’t stop at “remediation.”
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Resources go to programs that restore the dignity and fruits of human labor, on behalf of family and community.
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Resources are deployed to program activities that are measured, and continually improved upon, to produce a net-contribution to the community through participants who:
- Are trained and equipped to be skilled workers in a variety of environments,
- Are mentored and empowered to be disciplined workers of high character,
- Are fitted to the work and career path most likely to create purpose and satisfaction for the participant and productive labor for their employers.
Our Re-Entry Program
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RVM Re-Entry Rate
after the first year
Compare to 15.1% for
Wisconsin overall
In 2005, with the support of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, the Racine Police Department and the City of Racine, RVM started the Community Re-entry Program. From 2005–2010 RVM served 223 re-entry participants. In 2011, the City received a federal grant to serve 150 more reentrants over the next three years. The principle task of federal 2nd Chance programs are to reduce participant recidivism by 50%. RVM was able to accomplish this and more. To date, RVM and KVM have served 759 reentrants in Racine and Kenosha Counties since the inception of the program.
Rate of Reentrant Return to WI Corrections, 2023
Measuring Cognitive Change
The key to creating a path to long term success is cognitive change. If you cannot think about something differently you will not be able to react to it differently. We begin this process of change by simply meeting participants where they are. We then help them negotiate their stages of change, which is a theoretical framework that allows RVM staff to meet participants where they are in relation to their readiness to change. Change is the lynch pin of all program success. Research from the University of Cincinnati identified six key domains of influence impacting the risk of recidivism and facilitating cognitive change. R/KVM’s data report for 2020-2023 showed some very positive improvements in prosocial thinking patterns.
ORAS Average % Improvement 2020-2023
Assessment 1 – Assessment 3
Analysis: All 6 non-static ORAS subfields show significant improvement for those RVM participants being assessed 3 times between 2020 and 2023. The average score across all participants for each of these 6 categories improved by at least 16% with a maximum improvement of 36%. Such marked improvement is no easy feat, as this represents reducing risk factors spread across 6 different facets of life by nearly a quarter each. The consistent improvement across all 6 fields speaks to RVM’s commitment to transforming the whole of their participants’ lives and their participants’ commitment to the incremental change necessary to get there.
Especially prevalent are the 29%+ improvements in the categories of Family and Social Support, Substance Use, Peer Associations and Criminal Attitudes and Behavioral Patterns. These areas of growth underly RVM’s dedication to ensuring participants have a strong support system and the tools necessary to make positive changes in their lives.
Learn more in our Community Report
Learn more in our Community Report