Mentoring and Community Partnerships

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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."

Troubleshooting Training: How Three Programs Prepare Volunteers to Mentor People Leaving Prison and Jail

Staff at the CSG Justice Center talked to three reentry programs with promising training practices about their experiences developing and delivering training to volunteer mentors.

From National Mentoring Month to Black History Month–Highlighting the Value of Mentorship for Communities of Color and People in Reentry

“We would never want mentors to refer to the mentees [using] negative terminology that’s associated with incarceration,” said Ronald Day, associate vice president of the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at the Fortune Society, a New York City organization that was awarded a Second Chance Act adult mentoring grant in 2016.

Second Chance Act Mentoring Grantee Receives National Criminal Justice Program Award

The Connection Inc., a Connecticut-based nonprofit organization, was one of five organizations in the country to receive the 2016 Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Award from the National Criminal Justice Association.

For the Formerly Incarcerated, Peer Mentoring Can Offer Chance to ‘Give Back’

In Wayne County, Detroit Central City uses peer supports in their work with low-income individuals who have serious mental and behavioral health needs. As a FY2014 Second Chance Act Mentoring grantee, the organization credits its first peer-support project to statewide interest in using peer supports as a component of substance use treatment and mental health care.

NRRC Projects

Second Chance Act Programs Supporting Community-Based Mentoring and Transitional Services for Adults

Through the Second Chance Act, multiple programs have provided funding for nonprofit organizations—including faith-based, tribal, and community-based nonprofit organizations—and federally recognized tribal communities to provide mentoring and transitional services for adults returning to their communities from incarceration. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance and Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention have administered the awards.

Second Chance Act Programs Supporting Mentoring and Transitional Services for Youth

Through the Second Chance Act, multiple programs provided funding for nonprofit organizations—including faith-based, tribal, and community-based nonprofit organizations—and federally recognized tribal communities to provide mentoring and transitional services for youth returning to their communities from secure confinement settings, as well as for children and families of incarcerated parents. The U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) administered the awards.

Mentoring and Community Partnerships

Featured

Second Chance Act Spotlight: Byron Davis, Birmingham, Alabama

Troubleshooting Training: How Three Programs Prepare Volunteers to Mentor People Leaving Prison and Jail

From National Mentoring Month to Black History Month–Highlighting the Value of Mentorship for Communities of Color and People in Reentry

Second Chance Act Mentoring Grantee Receives National Criminal Justice Program Award

For the Formerly Incarcerated, Peer Mentoring Can Offer Chance to ‘Give Back’

NRRC Projects

Second Chance Act Programs Supporting Community-Based Mentoring and Transitional Services for Adults

Second Chance Act Programs Supporting Mentoring and Transitional Services for Youth

Webinars

Reentry Mentoring: Conversations from the Field on Working with System-Involved Youth

Keys for Building Successful Adult Mentoring Relationships

Planning for Sustainability: Supporting Community-Based Reentry Programs

Keeping Fathers Engaged in Reentry Programs Post-Release

Successful Collaborations between Nongovernment Organizations and Corrections Agencies in Addressing Reentry