More Than a Halfway House: How FOCUS Helps Women Rebuild After Incarceration

The Redemption Project Podcast · Aug 2, 2026 · 19m

Savannah Ford turned 30 years old in jail.

The milestone landed harder than she expected. Looking back at her life, she felt as though the only things she had to show for those years were addiction and felony drug charges.

She did not yet know what rebuilding would look like.

After her release, Savannah entered the residential reentry program operated by FOCUS Women’s Ministry. She had not participated in the organization’s jail classes because FOCUS was not serving the facility where she had been incarcerated. But the ministry still gave her a place in its transitional home—and an…