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WRRP, Inc
Our adult offenders receive tough love support from a network that consists of offenders that have completed parole, transformed into a productive member of society, and have remained crime free for a significant number of years. We know that by providing mentoring and stressing redemption as an integrity are important ethics toward interpersonal, practical, and social survival skills. WRRP believes that in our expression of care and concern for others helps the transformational supportive group project succeed.
Nevada
Prisoner Reentry Programs (various)
Arizona Women's Education and Employment (AWEE) has been transforming the lives of Arizonans into “faces of success” for nearly 30 years. Since our inception, we have helped create successful beginnings and renewed hope for more than 90,000 women, men and young adults. Today, AWEE is Arizona’s preeminent workforce development organization, offering a diverse range of evidence-based training and support services for specialized populations (to include formerly incarcerated individuals) throughout Maricopa and Yavapai counties.
Arizona
Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders
Re-Integration of Ex-Offenders (ReXo) Adult Program is a re-entry program serving 18 years old and above returning from Iowa's correctional institutions. We utilize our Critical Path Model to provide complete services to return then to Complete Whole Citizens.
Iowa
Twin Cities RISE!
TCR! is an anti-poverty program which provides career entry training in technical work skills and core skills (emotional intelligence training) for un- and underemployed adults, including those with backgrounds including felonies, homelessness, chemical dependency, and other barriers to career employment. The key training program, Personal Empowerment, has been recognized as the critical factor which results in employment retention rates of 82% at the end of the first year and 73% by the end of the second year. Not only is this life-changing curriculum offered in before-release and post-release settings, but it has contributed to recidivism rates of 12% for participants who complete the program.
Minnesota
Dayton Northwest Weed and Seed Initiative
We are a Weed and Seed site that focuses on community restoration through crime prevention with a re-entry component that targets the urban and African-American community.
Ohio
College and Community Fellowship
The mission of the College and Community Fellowship (CCF) is to eliminate individual and social barriers to higher education, economic security, and civic participation for formerly incarcerated women and their families. CCF guides women seeking to reclaim their lives after criminal conviction through the stages of higher education while promoting their leadership, self-advocacy, artistic expression, civic participation and long term economic security.
New York
Windows to Work
Windows to Work is designed to address the criminogenic risk factors that can lead to recidivism including unemployment/underemployment, low/interrupted education, poor problem solving skills, inadequate housing, and financial difficulties. Windows to Work begins six months prior to release with both group and individual sessions and continues for approximately one year post-release. While providing services to participants, case managers develop and maintain contact in the community forming a network of employers, residential property owners, educational institutions, commmunity support agencies, and treatment providers to assist Windows to Work participants.
Wisconsin
Douglas County (KS) Reentry Program
In 2008, the Douglas County (KS) Sheriff's Office initiated a Reentry Program for sentenced inmates. The mission of reentry is to enhance public safety by bringing together the public and private resources of Douglas County to help ex-offenders successfully re-enter their neighborhoods as accountable, self-sufficient and law-abiding citizens. The National Institute of Corrections and the Urban Institute launched the Transition from Jail to Community initiative, in which Douglas County is one of six piloting sites. TJC project assistance has brought facility staff, community stakeholders and government leaders together to build upon the reentry foundation already laid in Douglas County.
Kansas
Specialized Employment Center
The Specialized Employment Center (SEC) offers individuals looking for employment the support and assistance necessary to obtain competitive employment. Only non-violent ex-offenders who are homeless or returning from the Ohio Prison system to Montgomery County are eligible for this program.
Ohio
Family Integrated Transitions (FIT)
Family Integrated Transitions (FIT) provides integrated individual and family services to juvenile offenders with mental health and chemical
dependency disorders during the period of the youth’s transition from incarceration back to the community. The goals of the FIT program include lowering the risk for recidivism, connectingthe family with appropriate community supports, achieving youth abstinence from alcohol and other drugs, improving the mental health status of the youth, and increasing prosocial behavior.
Washington
Correctional Transition Services, Inc
Correctional Transition Services is a program in North Minneapolis assisting individuals with their drug problems and criminal thinking. CTSI helps clients make critical changes in their thinking, behavior, and life styles. Emphasis is placed on program integrity, client accountability, mutual respect, and human resilience to create a positive learning environment.
Minnesota
RKRM Consulting Inc
We offer a variety of services to ex-offenders such as employment assistance, mentoring, restoration of civil rights, housing assistance, GED preparartion and college assistance.
Florida
Reentry Benefiting Families
Refined By Fire Ministries, Inc. (RBF) was incorporated in 1995 with an initial mission to provide faith-based programming to incarcerated youth and adults. The organization's mission has expanded to help improve the quality of life for offenders and their families by providing re-entry life-skills programming and resources through partnerships with correctional facilities and community based organizations. Through its reentry initiative, Reentry Benefiting Families, RBF provides life skills education in correctional facilities, as well as community-based programs.
Louisiana
Read to Me Daddy/Mommy
RBF provides resources to video tape incarcerated parents reading a book of their choice to their children. The video is burned to a DVD and sent to the child with a copy of the book along with a special written message from their parent.
Louisiana
Alameda County Reentry Network
The Alameda County Reentry Network is a county-wide coalition of reentry stakeholders working to improve public safety and reduce recidivism among the formerly incarcerated. The Reentry Network provides an infrastructure for coordinating policy, program, data collection, resource development and professional development efforts within Alameda County. There are four regularly convening committees that comprise the Reentry Network, with a Coordinating Council serving as the hub of the Network. Member of the Reentry Network include: California State Senators and Assembly-members, Alameda County Supervisors, Sheriff's Department, Probation Department, Public Health Department, Health Care Services Agency, Social Services Agency, Community Based Organizations, Faith Based Organizations, Formerly Incarcerated People and Advocates and other reentry stakeholders.
California
Solutions to Poverty
As Louisiana continues to grapple with poverty issues in the state, RBF has made a conscious decision to expand our scope of work to include substantive programming that will assist incarcerated populations and their under-resourced families discover for themselves solutions out of poverty. By providing access to financial management education that includes coming along side the under-resourced to provide the tools they need to move from poverty to prosperity such as basic money management skills, they will gain a clearer understanding of how poverty impacts their lives as well as their children. The end result will be improved quality of life for these families as well as economic benefits for the communities in which they live.
Louisiana
Project REACH
Project REACH is a reentry program funded by the Federal Dept. of Labor's Prisoner Reentry Initiative. Since 2006 Project REACH has provided employment, housing, training, mentoring, substance abuse, training, and other wraparound services to formerly incarcerated individuals. Project REACH is a partnership made up of St. Patrick Center, Society of St. Vincent DePaul Criminal Justice Ministry, MERS/Goodwill, and the Missouri Department of Corrections.
Missouri
T.O.U.C.H. Mentoring Program
T.O.U.C.H. is a group and individual mentoring-centered reentry program. Using a personalized approach, we aim to help individuals take charge of the change they want to see in their life. In addition to mentoring, we provide life skills workshops, as well as essential transitional services and referrals.
Ohio
Opening Doors to Success
Opening Doors to Success is a 12 week life skills and employability skills training program. Staff work with other community agencies and area employers to educate and promote the benefits of hiring someone with a challenging background who has completed the program. Other ancilliary programs include financial education, tenant education, mental health and substance abuse counseling, and emergency financial assistance.
Nebraska
Empowerment Program
The Empowerment Program provides re-entry services for women leaving prisons and jails. Employment, drug and mental health assessment and treatment, education and some housing resources are available. Services are trauma informed and woman-centered. Empowerment is a licensed drug and specialty mental health agency in Colorado. No fees are charged.
Colorado