Community Enhancement:

Staff and members of the Church of Scientology participate in local community and merchant associations and partnerships helping to improve the quality of life in local neighborhoods by assisting in areas such as restoration of tree-boxes, city property clean up days, Main Street efforts and participation in Rotary Club events.

Rev. Carlton Pressley, senior advisor for religious affairs to the Mayor, with Rev. Susan Taylor, President of the Church of Scientology, Washington D.C.	Rev. Pressley and other community leaders with Church of Scientology staff.
Community leaders being given a tour of the Church.	Local community activities sponsored by the Church of Scientology Washington, D.C.

Mentoring Ex offenders:

Washington, D.C. has over 2,500 ex-offenders return to the District each year from prisons around the country. In recent years members of the Founding Church of Scientology Washington, D.C. were very active in the “Criminon Program” at the Lorton Prison in Lorton, VA. Using the programs developed by L. Ron Hubbard on drug rehabilitation, communication skills, personal integrity and other life skills, Scientologists have helped thousands of inmates to turn their lives around and realize, some for the first time, their true potential and a return of their self-respect and care for others.

With the recent closing of the Lorton Prison, members of the Church joined a faith-based community program sponsored by the Court Services and Offenders Supervision Agency, a federal agency designed to help offenders return to society. Church members using their skills in personal communication and counseling mentor offenders in the D.C. area helping them to insure that they do not return to prison by ensuring that their life skills are greatly improved and that they know that help is available for any difficulty they may have.