Ex-convicts could benefit from a proposed two-year vocational and rehabilitation training program in Peoria. The non-profit Adams Street Foundation is looking to turn the property at 1212 South West Adams into a vocational boarding house.
Becky Frye is a member of the group and owns the former Wilton mortuary property. She says residents would live in the house for two-years and get training in marketable job skills:
“There is a huge need for this type of program in our community. And we’re hoping to be able to work in partnership with the downtown, and provide services to downtown that are needed.”
Frye says the non-profit needs to raise $500,000 to renovate the house before it can accept residents.
Frye says her development group plans to turn over ownership of the property to the Adams Street Foundation. She says the concept is based on the California-based Delancy Street Foundation, that reintegrates ex-convicts into society by allowing them to operating entire businesses.