• Transitional living coupled with a stable, sustaining employment program, two components which reduce recidivism by 50%.
• Counseling, work experience and training, and case management support services which enhance the level of individual success.
• Close screening of participants before admission to the program to enhance the safety of the community as well as other residents.
• 24-hour supervised and structured living environment.
• “Functional mending” which allows individuals opportunities to undo negative behaviors and experience and learn positive ones.
• Opportunities for at risk youth to learn positive behaviors with the philosophy of the LITE program that it is better to “build a boy than mend a man”.
• Reduces the housing cost to the state: cost to house an individual in LINC Inc.’s campus is $5,000 annually compared to $27,572 annually to house an inmate in prison (2012). (http://randp.doc.state.nc.us/pubdocs/0007069.PDF)
• Competent, knowledgeable, compassionate staff which assist participants with their re-entry process.

The Marvin E. Roberts Transitional Living Campus offers shelter, food and clothing in a therapeutic environment for up to 18 months for men and women, 25 and older who have been recently released from State and/or Federal prisons or local jails. The average time of residence is 6 to 12 months. The campus can accommodate up to 25 men and 20 women. The complex offers full kitchens and laundry facilities as well as an exercise room and computer labs in a structured environment which is supervised 24 hours a day. It provides a positive social network with intensive case management services for life skill development including family strengthening.