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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

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

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

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

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

Oklahoma Partnership for Successful Reentry, Inc.

The Oklahoma Partnership for Successful Reentry, Inc. is a statewide coalition of organizations working in the field of reentry, which is helping ex-felons reintegrate into society, especially after prison, but also including those reentering from jail, probation, or moving here from out-of-state. OPSR partner organizations include a broad spectrum of faith-based, community-based, tribal, local, state, and federal organizations and agencies with a common goal: to remove the barriers to reentry in our State. Join with us as we seek to build the best information clearinghouse and networking coalition in the USA!

Oklahoma

OpenDoors

OpenDoors is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization whose mission is to strengthen communities by supporting the formerly incarcerated. The OpenDoors reentry program uses a holistic approach to support offenders as they prepare to leave prison, return home, and stabilize in the community. The agency's programs include discharge planning within Men’s Minimum Security, policy and advocacy on criminal justice issues, our one-stop Resource Center, our peer and one-on-one mentorship program, and our regular workshops in job readiness, housing, financial literacy, computer skills, recovery services, and more.

Rhode Island

David's Place

A neighborhood-based, family-focused Reentry program for high-risk former offenders. David’s Place works to help families overcome the frustration, anxiety and anger caused by the incarceration of a loved one, and move forward to hope, positive expectations, and success. David’s Place supports the successful reunification of former offenders and their family through a variety of services that strengthen the family and increase the opportunities for success for former offenders.

New York

Offenders About to Reenter Society (OARS)

This is a program for Florida Department of Corrections inmates returning to Duval County, Florida. OARS contains both pre-and post-release components and services to ensure a seamless transition for participants.

Florida

Merrimack County Demonstration Program

We provide comprehensive services to high-risk, high-need offenders utilizing peer support specialists, a boundary spanner, mental health and substance use treatment, and a variety of reentry services to include housing, employment and vocational assistance. Counselor/case managers will oversee the reentry process beginning six months' pre-release.

New Hampshire

National Prison Braille Network

There are currently 35 braille production facilities in prisons across the U.S. Inmates learn braille and transcribe print materials into braille for blind people. Inmates learn valuable job skills and prepare for reentry as braille transcribers or in other career fields.

Kentucky

Families of Incarcerated Individuals, Inc

Families of Incarcerated Individuals, Inc. (FII) is a non-profit organization founded in 1989. FII provides a variety of community based programs and services designed to foster positive family values and cultivate opportunities for self-sufficiency and citizenship among individuals affected by incarceration. “Our mission is to deter incarceration through family support.” Our DOORWAYS RE-ENTRY PROGRAM is Collaboration between FII and Mark Luttrell Correctional Center designed to provide one-to-one and small group mentoring services along with enriched transitional services to female offenders returning to the Memphis & Shelby County community.

Tennessee

City of Wilmington Police Reentry Program

The reentry case manager contacts ex-offenders six months prior to their release.To assist them with locating resources within the city.

North Carolina

Reentry Bridge Network, Inc

We are a 501(c) (3) non-profit that is a vehicle to bridge prisoners and communities thru spiritual and global education. We are certified and recognized by the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections in reentry.

Victims | Ohio

Given the Chance (GTC)

This reentry project includes three major elements. First, GTC and ROOTS, a community-based re-entry mentoring program, will provide pre- and post-release mentorship individually and in small group settings. Second, GTC will operate as a resource and referral clearinghouse for other agencies working in reentry, providing information, referral and follow-up on an array of services, including primary care, substance abuse and mental health treatment, family support services, employment training, etc. Third, GTC will provide transitional planning prior to release and follow-up during reintegration.

New York

Prisoner Re-Entry Program (PREP)

PREP is a USDOL Funded Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. PREP provides an array of services to the ex-offender population to assist with their transition from incarceration back into society. Services include, Employability Skills Training, Mentoring, Client Financial Assistance, Educational/Vocational assistance, Employment Assistance, Substance Abuse and Anger Management Services.

Connecticut