Welcome To Camp Kadesh
When someone walks out of prison in Kentucky, they're handed a pair of gray sweatpants and a sweatshirt, their belongings in a clear plastic trash bag, and a ride to the bus station.
A ticket to nowhere. No housing plan. No immediate access to food or money. Just an abrupt thrust into freedom amid chaos.
That moment, that first night out, can determine everything that comes next.
Camp Kadesh exists because instability breeds desperation, and desperation leads back to prison.
We offer transitional housing in rural northern Kentucky for people returning from incarceration who need a dignified place to land. Not a shelter. Not a waiting list.
A real place to live, in a community of people who understand what it means to come home to nothing and who believe that doesn't have to be the whole story.