DOWNLOAD This guide will help offenders in determining where they are at in terms of preparing for release and in creating a plan to succeed once they leave prison. This handbook contains ten chapters: identification; life skills; housing; education; transportation;...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Changed for Good has been created with the help of an earlier Anger Management curriculum and piloted for several years in a jail. Changed for Good is biblically-based, skill-based and implements evidence-based practices established by the National Institute...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Changed for Good has been created with the help of an earlier Anger Management curriculum and piloted for several years in a jail. Changed for Good is biblically-based, skill-based and implements evidence-based practices established by the National Institute...
Read MoreMore than 620,000 people are released from federal and state prisons each year and return to their communities. This substantial number is nearly equivalent to the population of Boston annually. While these and other individuals have already served their prison or...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Family Justice initiated the project “Housing Partnerships to Enhance Reentry Outcomes” in response to rural community corrections officers grappling with housing families involved in the criminal justice system. Time and again community corrections officers...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The United States now has both the highest incarceration rate and the largest total number of people behind bars of any country in the world: 2.3 million. For the first time in U.S. history,more than one in every 100 adults is currently incarcerated in jail...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD A Board Policies Manual (BPM) is the “one voice” of a board of directors that defines for the organization and for itself what on-going policies make the most sense today. It is updated regularly (usually at every meeting) because the world changes. It’s...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Over the past five years, there has been substantial momentum around the issue of prisoner reentry. It is now well known that some 650,000 prisoners return from state and federal prisons each year, facing a myriad of challenges and high recidivism rates. At...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Worksheet and Questions to go along the Movie Just Mercy...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Increasingly, policy makers and the media have urged reconsideration of the size of our prison population and examination of alternatives to incarceration, particularly for those convicted of less serious offenses. Many, including Governor Cuomo, have urged...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Four Phases of Crisis for the Church This information shared by Dr. Ed Stetzer, is excellent material for church leadership and volunteers as well as those in leadership in Christian ministries. The resource link provides video descriptions of the powerpoint...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The challenges associated with reentry from jail are daunting-large in scale and complex in task. Each year, U.S. jails process an estimated 12 million admissions and releases. That translates into 34,000 people released from jails each day and 230,000...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The release of individuals from prisons to communities is a practice that has long been fraught with systemic challenges and one which evokes considerable public concern. As a result, inrecent years, prisoner reentry has become the focus of a number of...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Model Programs Guide (MPG) I-Guide is focused on juvenile reentry programs. These reintegrative approaches establish collaboration with the community and its resources to ensure the delivery of needed services and...
Read MoreDownload Here Reentry MythBusters are a series of fact sheets intended to clarify existing federal policies that affect formerly incarcerated individuals and their families. Because reentry intersects with health and housing, education and employment, family, faith,...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD As a Community Based Orginization (CBO), you see individuals and communities every day struggling with such issues as addiction, homelessness, mental illness, criminal involvement,and unemployment. Through your work, you are also likely to come into contact...
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Read MoreDOWNLOAD In July 2015, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal correctional institution. Just two months later, Pope Francis met with men and women incarcerated in Philadelphia’s largest correctional facility. Perhaps it is not a...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The National Reentry Resource Center and the CSG Justice Center released. This toolkit is designed to “serve as a roadmap for identifying issues related to the education of delinquent youth during placement and when they are released and reintegrated...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The ReEntry Manual includes nine Steps to successful reentry, and is designed to function as both a teacher’s guide and inmate workbook, with space to take notes, checklists to gauge reentry readiness and worksheets to create resumes, budgets and spending...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Remember that planning for your release needs to start immediately, not just a week before you are scheduled to leave. Reentry starts on your first day of incarceration and everything you do during your incarceration should be focused on increasing your...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The series, Reentry TIPSHEETS for Women, is designed to help correctional staff and other supportive stakeholders, who are working with women during the pre-release planning process and during reentry to address their needs as they transition to the...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD This workbook is designed to be used by participants in an anger management group treatment curriculum for substance abuse and mental health clients. It provides individuals participating in the 12-week anger management group treatment with a summary of core...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Spiritual Growth Tipsheet is designed to help ministry workers who are serving men and women during the pre-released planning process and during reentry to address their spiritual needs as they transition to the community. Spiritual-Growth-Tipsheet...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The Community Capacity Development Office (CCDO) is committed to holding annual roundtable discussions with tribal representatives to identify issues related to access to program participation, program needs and gaps, and other issues unique to Indian tribes....
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The following report details how various factors significantly affect successful reentry,how existing community-based organizations tailor interventions to address those factors, andprovides recommendations for the best practices community-based reentry...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD With budget crunches capturing the attention of state and local governments,the affordability of long prison (jail) sentences is being questioned. Stateshave taken daring steps to use early release tactics, with the expectations thatsuch moves will both save...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Every year, millions of people are released from incarceration, and the vast majority—about 9 million individuals—exit from local jails. Within this population, recidivism rates are high, resulting in a damaging cycle of incarceration, release, and...
Read MoreDOWNLOAD The primary purpose of this project was to determine the impact of prison victimization on outcomes for those returning to the community. The project had two objectives. The first objective was to add our voice to the debate regarding prison sexual assault....
Read MoreDOWNLOAD Nationwide, corrections agencies are involved in efforts to bring about more successful offender reentry from prison and jail to the community. These efforts have been spurred by the enormous number of individuals being released from correctional facilities,...
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