Day 4: Making Reentry work | National Reentry Resource Center

Reentry Week 2021 — April 29: Making Reentry work

TODAY'S EVENTS

In this webinar, presenters discuss how coalition building and community engagement in the reentry process can lead to long-term system change and sustainability.

Do you invest in practices shown to reduce recidivism?
How do facilities share information with community providers to know who and how to help?
Does everyone leave your facility with a state ID?

In this video, CSG Justice Center director Nicole Jarrett and Anne Precythe, director of the Missouri Department of Corrections, discuss what culture change means for corrections.

MORE MATERIALS FOR MAKING REENTRY WORK

Resources

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Report Staffing for Success: Establishing Core Competencies and Training Supports for Corrections and Community Supervision Staff This resource was developed ito help corrections and community supervision agencies hire and prepare staff to provide effective reentry support and features an adaptation of a matrix used by IDOC and examples of some of their related materials, such as a performance evaluation.

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Brief Changing Systems, Changing Behavior: Five Ways Corrections Agencies Can Work to Reduce Recidivism This brief highlights five emerging strategies that state corrections agencies have employed to implement an evidence-based approach to reducing recidivism.

Multimedia

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PodcastCoaches' Corner Conversations: Joseph Williams (AIR) and Stephanie Gatewood (HopeWorks) This conversation between Second Chance Act (SCA) coach Joseph Williams and SCA grantee lead Stepanie Gatewood discusses what it means to be a SCA grantee, struggles as they create and provide supports and services for returning citizens and some solutions to address these barriers.

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PodcastCoaches' Corner Conversations: Derrick Franke (AIR) and Tana Howtopat (Oregon's Medicine Wheel) This Coaches' Corner shares thoughts on what it means to be a SCA grantee, sharing barriers have faced and solutions to overcoming those barriers, administering a grant during COVID - 19, and some lessons learned during their journey as a SCA grantee.

PodcastReentry Podcast: Gender-Specific Reentry Programming This Reentry Week podcast features Venus Woods from JustLeadershipUSA and focuses on gender-specific reentry and programming.

PodcastReentry Podcast : Reentry Program Participant Recruitment and Retention This Reentry Week podcast features Saad Soliman of JustLeadershipUSA and offers a discussion of recruitment and retention of formerly incarcerated individuals in reentry programming.

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PodcastReentry Podcast: The Importance of Mentoring This Reentry Week podcast features Lester Young from JustLeadershipUSA and focuses on the importance of mentoring as an affective service for returning citizens.

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VideoReentry Talk with Chris Sullivan, University of Cincinnati In this Reentry Talk, Chris Sullivan of the University of Cincinnati explores reentry research and the value of validated risk and needs assessments to best determine the needs of the returning citizen.

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VideoReentry Talk with Lena Hackett, Community Solutions Inc. In this Reentry Talk, Lena Hackett of Community Solutions, Inc. discusses the importance of coalition building to ensure successful reentry outcomes for returning citizens and sustainability of federally funded grants.

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VideoReentry Talk with Vivian Nixon, College & Community Fellowship In this Reentry Talk, Vivian Nixon of College & Community Fellowship discusses the important work of Second Chance Act grantees and the individual needs of the people they serve.

The National Reentry Resource Center is operated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and supported by Grant No. 15PBJA-23-GK-05503-MUMU awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.