Carmen Warner-Robbins likens herself to Joan of Arc: She didn't want to do what other people told her to do, but what God told her to do. This passion to follow God's call led her 12 years ago to found Welcome Home Ministries, a faith-based ministry ...
Welcome Home is a nondenominational ministry that keeps hundreds of women from returning to prison says it is running out of money. Staffers have been laid off and prison visits have stopped.
Still, officials from Oceanside-based Welcome Home Ministries said closing their doors is not an option.
Welcome Home Ministries was asked to be part of a new nonprofit coalition aims to help parolees avoid returning to prison. Rev. Carmen Warner Robbins our Executive Director and peer coordinators: Deborah Vorgang and Donna Nickel were part of the ad hoc committee which formulated this new coalition.
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Most women in program did not return to jail
Dr. Parsons and the Rev. Carmen Warner-Robbins, M.S.N., R.N., M.A.T., F.A.A.N., founder and director of Welcome Home Ministries, presented the success of the project:
