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‘A Resource for Change’: The Role of Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Reentry Programs

This article discusses the unique ways that peer recovery support specialists can enhance reentry programs.

Financially Sustaining Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

For jurisdictions implementing behavioral health-criminal justice programs to help minimize justice involvement among people with mental ill...

Surveying Participants to Strengthen Behavioral Health-Criminal Justice Programs

According to this brief from The Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, participant satisfaction surveys help behavioral health-...

Second Chance Act Grantee Receives National Criminal Justice Association Award

By CSG Justice Center Staff Accepting the award were (from left) Kelley Heifort, Community Reentry director, MN DOC; Lee Buckl...

Proposed Revisions to Child Support Regulations Include Focus on Incarcerated Parents and Reentry

Did you know that many of the federal rules about child support enforcement are 35 years old? After years of consultation with stakeholders, the Feder...

How Corrections Departments are Preparing People for In-Demand Careers that Support America's Infrastructure

This brief from the Vera Institute of Justice was developed in response to President Biden's 2022 Infrastructure Bill. As the brief asserts, j...

Second Chance Fellows—About the Visiting Fellows Program

The Office of Justice Programs’ (OJP) Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) Visiting Fellows Program invests in future and current leaders in the crimina...

A Proclamation on Second Chance Month, 2023

On March 31, 2023, President Joseph R. Biden proclaimed April 2023 as Second Chance Month and called upon all government officials, educat...

Research, Community Supervision Agency Partnership Is Central to Grant Program

By Heather Tubman-Carbone, Policy AnalystThe Smart Supervision grant program aims to improve probation and parole success rates and reduce crime by he...

Second Chance Month 2023 Webinar Archives

During Second Chance Month 2023, the National Reentry Resource Center, in partnership with the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Office of Juven...

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