[6][7][8] CPO reports their programs are meant to challenge, change and improve the lives of the participants.
Over the past 30 years these programs have continued to develop and offer life skills for inmates at Concord and other prisons in the area.
Author Robin Casarjian's book Houses of Healing[19] is required reading for one of the program's courses dealing with coping strategies and stress management .
[21] CPO also has a long-standing working relationship with the administration of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, though both organizations remain operationally independent of each other.
Financially, the organization has maintained a strong balance sheet through donations from its member churches and synagogues, endowments and from individual contributors.