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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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Oklahoma
Miami Dade County Corrections and Rehabilitation Department Reentry Program
The Reentry Program assists offenders with their transition from jail to community by providing services and referrals based on assessed need. Through the coordination of in jail services and programs with community resources, an effective, individualized transition plan is developed linking the ex-offender to a community based support system.
Florida
His Healing Hand Ministries
His Healing Hand Ministries is a reentry, renewal, and recovery ministry operating as the resource for reentry at several state, county, and federal correctional facilities helping those behind bars to recover from the past and move on. The ministry teaches how to rebuild a life that has been behind bars to "Step Forward" and move on with Christ!
Florida
Columbia's Christian Reentry Coalition
Our mission is to mobilize and prepare believers in a cooperative and unified effort under Christ to see returning offenders experience the reality of His love and be empowered to prosper in every area of their life. The purpose of the coalition is to provide wrap-around Christian support to recently released offenders returning to Columbia, MO and to encourage their efforts to become productive members of society.
Missouri
NYC Justice Corps
The NYC Justice Corps brings young adults involved with the criminal justice system together with their communities to identify and address unmet community needs. The NYC Justice Corps is a six-month program consisting of a sequence of services that incorporates principles of youth development, service learning, workforce development and prisoner reentry. Corps members begin and proceed through the NYC Justice Corps in a cohort model that promotes leadership development and team building. Beginning at enrollment, the NYC Justice Corps transitions Corps members through training (1 month), community benefit project service (10-14 weeks), and internships (minimum of 6 weeks) with the goal of placing Justice Corps graduates in permanent employment and/or educational opportunities. To find out about the NYC Justice Corps program sites and for more information about this exciting initiative, visit the NYC Justice Corps' website at www.nycjusticecorps.org.
New York
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