Employment

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Self-Assessment for Employment-Focused Reentry Programs

January 10, 2019

This self-assessment helps programs gauge their capacity to provide integrated reentry and employment interventions, including work readiness, to people with varying risks and needs. The tool helps reentry practitioners identify opportunities to build the capacity of their programming and services, which, in turn, can better prepare participants for employment and decrease their likelihood of returning to incarceration.

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Byron Davis, Birmingham, Alabama

July 5, 2018

Byron Davis used the end of his sentence in Limestone Correctional Facility near Huntsville, Alabama, to get ready for his next step: searching for work back home in his community, just outside of Birmingham. He intended to put his conviction for dealing drugs behind him. "I don't want to go back to that,” Davis said. “But I need to work, to make a living."

Reentry Essentials: An Overview of Employment and Correctional Education

People who have been incarcerated earn 40 percent less annually than they had earned prior to incarceration and are likely to have less upward economic mobility over time than those who have not been incarcerated, according to a 2010 report from The Pew Charitable Trusts.

NRRC Projects

Reentry and Employment

Uniting business leaders, policymakers, and practitioners from the corrections and workforce development fields with the goal of improving reentry and employment outcomes for individuals with criminal histories.

Second Chance Act Adult Reentry and Employment Programs

This grant program helps state, local government agencies, federally recognized Indian tribes to establish programs to train individuals in prisons, jails, or juvenile residential facilities for technology-based jobs and careers.

Key Resources

Hosting an Employer Engagement Event

National Reentry Resource Center

This toolkit is designed to help businesses, public agencies, and community organizations plan and execute local dialogues about hiring people with criminal records.

Employment

Featured

Self-Assessment for Employment-Focused Reentry Programs

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Byron Davis, Birmingham, Alabama

Reentry Essentials: An Overview of Employment and Correctional Education

NRRC Projects

Reentry and Employment

Second Chance Act Adult Reentry and Employment Programs

Key Resources

Hosting an Employer Engagement Event

Webinars

Improving Job Readiness and Retention for Higher Risk Populations

Best and Promising Practices in Integrating Reentry and Employment Interventions

Reducing Barriers to Employment—Building Partnerships with Civil Legal Aid

Second Chance Act Grantee Training: Engaging Local Employers–A Sector-Based Approach

Engaging Employers: A Sector-Based Approach to Employment for People with Criminal Records

Integrating Best Practices from Corrections and Workforce Systems to Match Jobseekers to Services

Improving Educational and Vocational Outcomes for Incarcerated Youth