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About Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS
Founder of Hope on the Horizon.
Reentry Leader.
Advocate.
Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS, is the founder of Hope on the Horizon, a reentry-focused program created to support individuals and families navigating the transition from incarceration back into community life.
MBA, CPSS
Founder of Hope on the Horizon
Major Program
Hope on the Horizon.
Founded by Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS
A reentry-focused program rooted in restoration, advocacy, dignity, support, and second chances.
Helping People Come Home With Support, Dignity & Hope
Hope on the Horizon is a reentry-focused program founded by Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS, to support individuals and families navigating the difficult transition from incarceration back into community life.
The program is built around a trauma-informed and community-centered vision of reentry: people need more than a release date. They need relationships, advocacy, practical support, encouragement, restoration, and a pathway toward stability.
Through Candice’s leadership, Hope on the Horizon connects reentry support, peer mentorship, education, advocacy, partnerships, and relational accompaniment into a larger mission of helping people rebuild their lives and reconnect with community.
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Founder, Hope on the Horizon
Candice founded Hope on the Horizon to create a clear, supportive, and dignity-centered pathway for people returning home.
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Interaction Transition / Reentry Program Specialist
Candice serves in reentry program work connected to peer mentoring, support, advocacy, and reintegration.
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One Parish One Prisoner – Parish Mobilizer
Candice helps mobilize congregations to walk alongside people returning home from incarceration.
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WA Statewide Reentry Council Member
Candice contributes to statewide reentry advocacy by centering dignity, equity, lived experience, and community reintegration.
Founder Bio
Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS.
Candice brings deep lived experience, reentry leadership, certified peer support, and community-centered advocacy to her work with individuals, families, congregations, and statewide reentry partners.
Candice is the Founder of Hope on the Horizon and the Founder and Executive Director of Ed 4 Empowerment LLC. Her work is shaped by lived experience, professional training, and a deep commitment to helping justice-impacted individuals rebuild their lives with dignity and support.
She serves as an Interaction Transition / Reentry Program Specialist, a One Parish One Prisoner Parish Mobilizer, and a WA Statewide Reentry Council Member. Across these roles, Candice supports people returning home, mobilizes community support, and advances reentry efforts grounded in relationship, restoration, and lived experience.
Her work centers on reducing isolation, strengthening community reintegration, and helping people move toward housing stability, education access, employment pathways, peer support, and restored community connection.
Professional Credentials
Credentials, Leadership & Lived Experience.
Candice Baughman, MBA, CPSS, brings together academic leadership, certified peer support, reentry advocacy, lived experience, community mobilization, and program development.
Her credentials and roles include Founder of Hope on the Horizon, Interaction Transition / Reentry Program Specialist, One Parish One Prisoner Parish Mobilizer, WA Statewide Reentry Council Member, and Founder and Executive Director of Ed 4 Empowerment LLC.
Her Heart Behind the Work
Helping People Rebuild, Reconnect & Find Hope After Incarceration.
Candice founded Hope on the Horizon and Ed 4 Empowerment because she knows that reentry is not just about coming home — it is about being supported, seen, equipped, and welcomed into community.
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Why This Work Matters
Candice believes people impacted by incarceration should not have to return home alone, unseen, or unsupported. Her heart is to help individuals and families move from survival to stability, from shame to dignity, and from isolation to belonging.
Through Hope on the Horizon, Ed 4 Empowerment, peer support, advocacy, and community partnerships, Candice helps create spaces where people can heal, grow, lead, and become part of something larger than their past.
Her work is hopeful, practical, trauma-informed, and community-centered — reminding people that restoration is possible when support, dignity, and second chances come together.
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Because Reentry Can Be Lonely
Candice understands that people returning home often face isolation, stigma, and uncertainty. Her programs exist to help people feel seen, supported, and guided.
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Because Community Restores Hope
Hope on the Horizon emphasizes relationships, advocacy, practical support, and community connection as essential parts of successful reentry.
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Because Lived Experience Matters
Candice believes those closest to the struggle often carry the wisdom needed to create meaningful, practical, and dignity-centered solutions.
Hope
Founder of Hope on the Horizon
MBA
Master of Business Administration
CPSS
Certified Peer Support Specialist
WA
Statewide Reentry Council Member
Professional Leadership
Roles That Shape Candice’s Reentry Work
Candice’s leadership sits at the intersection of lived experience, reentry support, certified peer support, faith-community mobilization, education, and statewide advocacy.
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Founder, Hope on the Horizon
Candice founded Hope on the Horizon to support individuals and families navigating reentry with practical guidance, advocacy, dignity, and hope.
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Interaction Transition / Reentry Program Specialist
Candice serves in reentry program work connected to peer mentoring, relational support, advocacy, and successful community reintegration.
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One Parish One Prisoner – Parish Mobilizer
Candice helps mobilize congregations to build supportive relationships with people returning home from incarceration.
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WA Statewide Reentry Council Member
Candice contributes to statewide reentry efforts by centering lived experience, dignity, equity, and community reintegration.
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Founder & Executive Director, Ed 4 Empowerment LLC
Through Ed 4 Empowerment, Candice builds pathways of education, advocacy, peer support, reentry support, and community connection.
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Certified Peer Support Specialist
Candice uses her CPSS credentials to provide trauma-informed, relationship-centered support rooted in dignity, trust, empowerment, and lived experience.
What Candice Helps Build
Reentry Support, Mentorship, Partnership & Advocacy
Many of the programs and services connected to Candice’s work flow from the same mission behind Hope on the Horizon: helping people rebuild with dignity, support, and community.
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Trauma-Informed Reentry Support
Candice trains and supports communities in understanding reentry through a trauma-informed, relational, and dignity-centered lens.
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Peer Mentoring Curriculum
She develops peer mentoring curriculum that equips mentors and participants with tools for accompaniment, support, growth, and reintegration.
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Community Partnerships
Candice coordinates partnerships between churches, organizations, and reentry-focused programs to strengthen long-term support systems.
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Relational Reentry Models
She helps facilitate accompaniment-based models that reduce isolation and create meaningful relationships for people returning home.
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Family & Community Reintegration
Hope on the Horizon emphasizes restoration not only for individuals, but also for families and communities impacted by incarceration.
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Advocacy Grounded in Lived Experience
Candice advances advocacy grounded in dignity, equity, lived experience, and the leadership of justice-impacted communities.
Education & Formation
Academic Training Meets Lived Experience.
Candice’s leadership is shaped by formal education, CPSS training, reentry practice, and firsthand understanding of the systems, barriers, and possibilities involved in reentry.
Candice holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice and Community Services from Saint Martin’s University.
She has completed her Master of Business Administration, strengthening her leadership in organizational strategy, program development, partnership building, and long-term community impact.
Candice also holds CPSS credentials as a Certified Peer Support Specialist, equipping her to provide trauma-informed, peer-centered support rooted in dignity, empowerment, and lived experience.
Her education and credentials strengthen her work in Hope on the Horizon, program development, reentry strategy, curriculum design, advocacy, peer support, and community partnership building.
Her Mission
Hope, Restoration, Belonging & Second Chances
Through Hope on the Horizon and her broader reentry work, Candice helps people rebuild their lives, reconnect with community, and move forward with dignity, practical support, advocacy, and hope.