  We aim to improve upon contemporary methods to estimate host-galaxy reddening
of stripped-envelope (SE) supernovae (SNe). To this end the Carnegie Supernova
Project (CSP-I) SE SNe photometry data release, consisting of nearly three
dozen objects, is used to identify a minimally reddened sub-sample for each
traditionally defined spectroscopic sub-types (i.e, SNe~IIb, SNe~Ib, SNe~Ic).
Inspection of the optical and near-infrared (NIR) colors and color evolution of
the minimally reddened sub-samples reveals a high degree of homogeneity,
particularly between 0d to +20d relative to B-band maximum. This motivated the
construction of intrinsic color-curve templates, which when compared to the
colors of reddened SE SNe, yields an entire suite of optical and NIR color
excess measurements. Comparison of optical/optical vs. optical/NIR color excess
measurements indicates the majority of the CSP-I SE SNe suffer relatively low
amounts of reddening and we find evidence for different R_(V)^(host) values
among different SE SN. Fitting the color excess measurements of the seven most
reddened objects with the Fitzpatrick (1999) reddening law model provides
robust estimates of the host visual-extinction A_(V)^(host) and R_(V)^(host).
In the case of the SE SNe with relatively low amounts of reddening, a preferred
value of R_(V)^(host) is adopted for each sub-type, resulting in estimates of
A_(V)^(host) through Fitzpatrick (1999) reddening law model fits to the
observed color excess measurements. Our analysis suggests SE SNe reside in
galaxies characterized by a range of dust properties. We also find evidence SNe
Ic are more likely to occur in regions characterized by larger R_(V)^(host)
values compared to SNe IIb/Ib and they also tend to suffer more extinction.
These findings are consistent with work in the literature suggesting SNe Ic
tend to occur in regions of on-going star formation.
