This home in Marysville is called Norine & Chuck Robbins Home of Hope, another Jonathan’s Refuge. Chuck was the Pierce County Sheriff from 1988 to 1992. Pappa Chuck just passed away. Chuck had relationships with each man at the house along with his wife Norine, whom the men call Momma Norine. 

We have our Christmas party at their home in Eatonville each year. Even after Chuck's passing we still hold it there, because Momma Norine helps the men to see another future. They gave the funding to secure this property and she on his behalf continues to purchase things like the best washer and dryers that money can buy, to make sure the men know we believe in them. 

We take men in from prison and all sorts of backgrounds. We also take men who are not ex-cons, men with addictions and mental health issues like Autism and are looking to improve their life. Our home has men from the Department of Correction who are supervised by a CCO, a community correction officer. 

They come to the house and conduct monthly inspections. Working with DOC helps us keep the men out of trouble and our community safe, by abiding by their judgment and sentences, also known as the J&S report. 

Our location is in the city of Marysville which also has an additional check-in and assignment for each department of corrections man with a Marysville police officer. The Marysville police officer who is assigned to each man will also do a monthly check-in and see how each one of our men are doing. 

We also have motion detection video on every entrance to the house and video of all common areas to make sure we can know what every man is doing and double check to make sure they are in by curfew. If a CCO requests verification, we can show if a man was in or not. 

We also conduct random UAs to make sure that our policy of clean and sober is being abided by.

Upon arriving at the refuge our therapist, Dr. Vance Whippo, a 35-year veteran of the US military and an ex-police officer is our doctor of therapy. 

He conducts a psychological evaluation that allows us at the refuge to better understand our client. The psychological evaluations are also accepted by Washington Courts and the Department of Corrections.

At the refuge, we understand that some of our men have restrictions due to their J&S such as no contact with women, elderly or children. We encourage our men to attend our weekly in-house spiritual meeting where we bring in spiritual leaders from the community on Thursday night. This gives our men a chance to have a connection with different spiritual leaders that are inclusive without them having to attend a physical church. No specific religion or doctrine is taught. Mainly a message on leadership skills and how to handle difficult situations in a positive way.