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The
Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign
The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign is designed to support
the work of community and faith-based organizations through offering
media resources that will facilitate community discussion and decision
making about solution-based reentry programs. Based on the belief
that diverse media play an essential role in motivating and mobilizing
community action, the campaign will expand public awareness and
work in partnership with local organizations and initiatives to
foster public safety and support healthy communities.
National
Institute of Corrections Transition from Prison to the Community
Initiative
NIC's Transition from Prison to the Community Initiative (TPCI)
is intended to help states improve their transition processes, thereby
increasing public safety, reducing recidivism and new victimization,
and making better use of resources in correctional facilities and
communities.
Urban
Institute, The Reentry Roundtable
The Reentry Roundtable brings together prominent academics, practitioners,
community leaders, policymakers, advocates, and former prisoners
about twice a year to push the envelope of research and practice.
For each meeting, the Urban Institute invites about 30 individuals
to constitute the "roundtable" for the purpose of that
meeting. Additionally, a select group of individuals (including
practitioners, researchers, foundation officers, community members,
and journalists) are invited to observe meetings of the Roundtable.
The mission of the Roundtable is to develop new thinking about the
issue of prisoner reentry, broadly defined.
National
Governors Association, Reentry Policy Academy
NGA's Prisoner Reentry Policy Academy works with seven states to
develop strategic action plans for prisoner reentry that coordinate
services across agencies, both at the state and local level, and
build on lessons from current research. The seven participating
states are Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey,
Rhode Island, and Virginia, Each of these states has assembled an
interdisciplinary reentry policy team comprised of five to seven
representatives from governors' offices and key state agencies,
such as corrections, public safety, health and human services, welfare,
workforce, and housing.
Evaluation
of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative
Coordinator: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), Office of Justice
Programs, U.S. DOJ
Funding Sources: Education and Training Administration (U.S. Dept.
of Labor), Bureau of Justice Assistance (U.S. Dept. of Justice),
and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (U.S.
Dept. of Health and Human Services)
Staff Contact: Elizabeth Griffith, BJA
SVORI is a comprehensive effort supported by the agencies described
above, as well as the Department of Housing and Urban Development,
which addresses both juvenile and adult populations of serious,
high-risk offenders. It provides funding to develop, implement and
enhance re-entry strategies that will ensure the safety of the community
and the reduction of serious, violent crime. Over $100 million has
been awarded under this grant program to 68 sites, the vast majority
of them state agencies. Technical assistance is also available to
the grantees.
Evaluation
of the Serious and Violent Offender Re-Entry Initiative (SVORI)
With funding from the National Institute of Justice and in partnership
with the Research Triangle Institute (RTI), the Urban Institute
is conducting a multi-year comprehensive evaluation of the Serious
and Violent Offender Re-Entry Initiative, a collaborative Federal
effort to improve re-entry outcomes along criminal justice, employment,
education, health, and housing dimensions. The objective is to promote
productive social roles and reduce the likelihood of a return to
crime and imprisonment for released offenders. The evaluation consists
of two phases: a one-year design and assessment period (Phase 1)
and a four-year impact evaluation (Phase 2). The evaluation includes
an implementation assessment, impact evaluation, and cost-benefit
analysis.
Re-Entry
Policy Online
The purpose of the RPC, a public/private partnership comprising
practitioners, policymakers, and advocates and funded in part by
the U.S. Department
of Justice, the U.S.
Department of Labor , and the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services , is to develop bipartisan
recommendations that policymakers can use to improve the likelihood
that adults released from prison or jail will avoid crime and become
productive, healthy members of families and communities.
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