Coming to a Community Near You: Reentry

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Coming to a Community Near You Reentry

• National Crime Prevention Council
• 2006
• Drew Carberry

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Goals

• Participant will be able to identify the breadth
  of the ex-offender reentry issue.
• Participants will be able to identify CNCS and
  local partnering resources for reentry programs.
• Participants will examine different ex-offender
  reentry models in place across the country.
• Participants will be able to list the important
  components of a successful ex-offender reentry
  program.

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NCPCs Mission

• To enable people to create safer, more caring
  communities by addressing the causes of crime and
  reducing the opportunities for crime to occur.

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Reentry A definition

• Reentry (n.)
• A broad term that refers to the issues related
  to the transition of offenders from incarceration
  to community.

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Reentry

• By The Numbers

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• The Perfect Storm

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Most returning ex-offenders return to just a few
neighborhoods.
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Model Programs

• Lowell, Massachusetts
• Ft. Wayne, Indiana
• Baltimore, Maryland
• Providence, Rhode Island
• Florida
• Arizona

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AmeriCorps VISTA12-City InitiativePhiladelphia,
Providence, Cleveland, Dayton, Portland,
Washington DC, Chicago, Charleston/ N. Charleston
SC, Dallas, Indianapolis, Miami, Oakland
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Additionally..

• Department of Labor
• Michigan
• Iowa
• New Jersey

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Course is interactive
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http//nationalserviceresources.org
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Citizen Circles

• Employment
• Family and marital
• Associates / Social Interaction
• Substance Abuse
• Community Functioning
• Personal /Emotional Orientation
• Attitude

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Citizen Circle

• Accepting responsibility
• Accepting Recommendations
• Community Service
• Law Abiding Goals
• Productive Community Behavior

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Reentry Horizon

• Prison Sentencing Reform
• Second Chance Act (Bill pending)

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Questions and Answers
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Crime Prevention Strategies Reentry services
are crime prevention services.
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Resources

• www.reentry.gov
• www.reentry.org
• www.reentrymediaoutreach.org
• www.reentry.net
• www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ccdo/welcome_flash.html
• www.urban.org
• .www.csosa.gov
• www.reentrypolicy.org

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Resources

• The Corporation for National and Community
  Service
• www.nationalservice.org
• Reentry list-serv
• e-mail join-reentry_at_lists.etr.org

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The National Crime Prevention Council

• Drew Carberry dcarberry_at_ncpc.org 202-261-4186
• 1000 Connecticut Avenue, NW
• Thirteenth Floor
• Washington, DC 20036
• 202-466-6272
• 202-296-1356 fax
• www.ncpc.org