Expanded services and a new place to call home for a local nonprofit Restorative Partners was unveiled on Tuesday.

The nonprofit provides services to those in-custody and just getting out.

“Being able to have that security and peace of mind was my first goal," Thomas Lebert said. Lebert was just released one month ago and through the organization has already found housing.

“I've been doing bad my whole life, man," Austyn Fout admitted. "[I want to] just live a good life, man. Be a pillar of my community and just do good.” Fout who was released just three weeks ago is a new client.

As of October 1, Restorative Partners has a new office off Prado Road in San Luis Obispo. That office expands the organization’s services to help formerly incarcerated people, like Fout and Lebert, get back o

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