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Critical Connections

Critical Connections Getting People Leaving Prison and Jail the Mental Health Care and Substance Use Treatment They Need What Policymakers Need to...

Communities Celebrate Successful Reentry During Second Chance Month

Policymakers, corrections officials, practitioners, and other leaders plan to commemorate Second Chance Month 2019—celebrated throughout April—with a ...

Demonstrating the Value of Recovery Housing: Expert Panel Findings Report 

In January 2021, the National Council for Mental Wellbeing with funding from the Opioid Response Network (ORN) hosted a technical expert panel (TEP)...

Opinion: How Federal Investments Make Us Smarter about Reducing Recidivism

By Michael Thompson Director, The Council of State Governments Justice Center Criminologists routinely lament politicians who, responding to headli...

Celebrating the History and Importance of Second Chance Month

This video serves as a short introduction to the history of Second Chance Month and shares how people can get involved on all levels. 

Q & A with Margaret Love of the Collateral Consequences Resource Center

By Mai P. Tran, Program Associate Margaret Love, executive director and editor of the Collateral Consequences Reentry Resource Center.Individuals retu...

Theme: Substance Use

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Linking and Leveraging Resources

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The Sister of Second Chances

The New York Times By John Leland Venita Pinckney grew up around Catholic schools and churches, and she thought she knew about nuns. Then a smal...

For Dave’s Killer Bread, Giving ‘Second Chances’ Leads to Loyal Employees, ‘Exponential Growth’

By Ashleigh Fryer, CSG Justice Center When Genevieve Martin came on board at Dave’s Killer Bread as its retail and café manager eight years ago, she ...

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