The Illinois Going Home Program (GH) was conceived with several challenging, policy-level goals that reflect an attempt to refocus the corrections system on rehabilitation. Illinois was asked by federal authorities to design and implement GH without incurring substantial or on-going new expenses. Going Home officials attempted to meet these objectives by establishing three major changes in the way the state of Illinois prepares a prisoner for release into the community from the corrections system. The evaluation of the Illinois Going Home program was divided into two major pieces  an implementation evaluation and an impact evaluation. The former documents the extent to which the program itself functioned as planned, while the latter measures the impact of the program on participants.