Reentry : Release/Parole
Examine and Promote the Local Prosecutor's Role in Prisoner Reentry Project
The American Prosecutors Research Institute is the nonprofit research and program development resource arm of the National District Attorneys Association, a member organization for the 2,800 prosecutors across the country. The Institute serves as a national clearinghouse for information for prosecutors that includes the promotion of professional standards for the field. This project will survey prosecutors' offices to elicit their perspectives on reentry, determine what reentry strategies would be appropriate for their offices, and identify and document promising practices in the field. Based on the survey data, the Institute will produce publications geared for prosecutors, policymakers, and others in the field.
General Operating Support
This grant provides general operating support to the APAI, a professional association for parole board officials in the United States and Canada that seeks to further the professionalism and reliance on best practices of parole boards in ensuring public safety.
Building Bridges: Restoration of Federal Benefits for People with Psychiatric Disabilities
This grant provides funding for the Bazelon Center and its partner organizations in Maryland, Minnesota, and Vermont to implement joint advocacy strategies to educate legislators about how to improve access to benefits for former prisoners with mental illness.
Organizational Development
This grant supports hiring a consulting firm specializing in management issues, to take its board and staff though a strategic review of Bazelon’s programmatic direction and development potential with a particular focus on the nexus between mental health and the criminal justice system.
Civic Justice Corps
A joint effort among several colleges of the Oregon State University system, the Center strengthens community capacity to address complex social problems and develop collaborative solutions. This grant supports a pilot reentry program in three sites (two in Oregon and one in South Carolina). The pilot uses Americorps - a national program which connects Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to give back to their communities - as the reentry program for this population.
Support to the Colorado Criminal and Juvenile Justice Commission
This grant will enable the Center for Effective Public Policy to provide the newly formed Colorado Criminal and Juvenile Justice Commission with a senior member of its staff to assist the Commission in framing issues, developing goals, and establishing good group dynamics, which are essential to its success.
Kansas 2008 Community Corrections Initiative
With this grant, the Center will conduct two statewide trainings for community corrections officers focusing on risk reduction techniques and evidence-based practices. These will build upon previous trainings provided to Kansas corrections agencies by the Center and funded by the Foundation.
Technical Assistance to Community Correction Supervision Agencies
The Center for Effective Public Policy provides technical assistance to jurisdictions across the country on a variety of issues related to criminal justice. This grant supports technical assistance to state parole supervision agencies that are restructuring their operations to focus on persons successfully completing parole.
Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative – Technical Assistance
This grant supports case management assistance provided to the Michigan Department of Corrections as part of the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative.
Kansas Prisoner Reentry Effort – Technical Assistance
The Center develops and publishes criminal justice training curricula, policy and practice briefs, handbooks, video seminars, and other educational resources. This grant provides technical assistance to the Kansas Department of Corrections to develop a long-term strategic reentry plan.
Kansas/Michigan Technical Assistance Project
The Center for Effective Public Policy (CEPP) provides technical assistance and training to jurisdictions across the country on a variety of criminal justice issues. This grant provides technical assistance to the Kansas and Michigan Departments of Corrections in their respective reentry projects.
Learning Institute
The Center for Employment Opportunities provides job readiness and placement services to former inmates, probationers and others under community supervision. This grant supports its newly developing Learning Institute to design, test and evaluate potential solutions to the employment issues of the formerly incarcerated, and disseminate best practices employment organizations nationally.
Providence Reentry Initiative
Providence, Rhode Island has undertaken a reentry initiative to improve policies, services, and support for prisoners returning to the city. This grant will support development of community partnerships among public agencies and local organizations to provide inmates returning to Providence with the skills, housing, employment opportunities, treatment, and aftercare programming needed for them to become productive members of society.
Expanded Evaluation of the New York City Frequent User Service Enhancement Project
The Corporation for Supportive Housing provides Frequent User Service Enhancement (FUSE) funds to service providers working with individuals who have had numerous stays in New York City’s jails and shelters. Columbia University’s Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies will conduct an evaluation of the second phase of FUSE to examine the cost effectiveness of the program and its impact on homelessness, jail returns, and health and mental health outcomes.
New York/New York III: Increasing Access of Criminal Justice Populations to Supportive Housing
The Corporation for Supportive Housing is a financial and technical assistance intermediary that helps non-profits operate supportive housing for individuals and families with special needs. This project is an agreement between the City and State of New York to create 9,000 units of supportive housing in the City over the next 11 years. The grant supports technical assistance to service providers to help them create the infrastructure to identify and assist homeless people with criminal backgrounds eligible for supportive housing.
Michigan Prisoner Reentry Challenge Grant Coordination
The Council of Michigan Foundations is the membership organization for more than 400 Michigan foundations and corporate grantmakers. This grant supports the Governor’s Office of Foundation Liaison to coordinate the JEHT Foundation’s Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative Challenge Grant to community foundations.
Michigan Prisoner Reentry Challenge Grant
The Grand Rapids Community Foundation (GRCF) is engaged in reentry planning within Kent County, Michigan. This grant provides matching funds for the Community Foundation's grants in housing, legal services, and employment for people returning from prison to Kent County.
Kansas Offender Risk Reduction and Reentry Plan
Led by the Department of Corrections, the Kansas Offender Risk Reduction and Reentry Plan is a comprehensive effort to support the successful integration of people re-entering their communities from prison, and reduction of Kansas' recidivism rate. The grant supports specialized staff needed for implementation of the plan.
Kansas Offender Risk Reduction and Reentry Plan
This grant provides continued support for the Kansas Offender Risk Reduction and Reentry Plan.
Community Safety Initiative
This grant supports demonstration projects in Rhode Island and Massachusetts which combine housing with a variety of services (employment, skills training, health, mental health, etc.) aimed at meeting the range of needs people coming out of prison.
Evaluation of Transitional Jobs for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Demonstration Project
MDRC is a research organization that evaluates social programs aimed at low-income individuals and families. The Transitional Jobs for Formerly Incarcerated Individuals Demonstration Project is testing whether transitional jobs programs are an effective strategy to reduce recidivism and increase permanent employment among formerly incarcerated individuals. This grant supports the evaluation component.
Taking MPRI Up To Scale
The Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (MPRI) has brought together government officials, consultants, and community-based service providers to implement a comprehensive plan for the reintegration of prisoners into their communities. With this grant, the Michigan Council on Crime and Delinquency (the Council) will manage a team of specialists to revise procedures to achieve an MPRI-centered shift throughout the state’s Department of Corrections.
Caring for the Incarcerated
The National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) works to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile detention facilities across the country through accreditation of facilities, certification of health care providers, technical assistance and educational programs. This national study explores how best to promote continuity of care for former inmates released back into communities based on best practices in the field. The study will make policy recommendations that can lead to better health and disease prevention in poor communities where formerly incarcerated people tend to be concentrated.
Prisoner Reentry State Leadership Project
This grant continues work with a select group of Academy states to broaden and enhance reentry plans that were initiated during the course of the grant for NGA's Prisoner Reentry Policy Academy. It also will allow NGA to engage other interested states in reentry work.
Reentry Initiative
Following the success of the Reentry Roundtable, this grant supports the Institute's implementation of a three-year reentry initiative focusing on policy research and advocacy, communications, and a demonstration reentry project.
Opiate Replacement Maintenance Therapy/Jail Reentry Project
The University of California’s Positive Health Program specializes in primary care for people living with HIV in San Francisco. This grant supports a demonstration project that provides a legal drug substitute to injection-opiate addicted people who are in jail in San Francisco and Multnomah County, Oregon, and assists them with reentry into the community.
MPRI Opinion Leader Education: Phase II
Public Policy Associates is the coordinating organization for the Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative (MPRI). This grant continues support for the non-partisan educational effort for Michigan legislators about MPRI
Michigan Prisoner Reentry Initiative
Initiated by the governor of Michigan, Jennifer Granholm, this effort has brought together government officials, consultants and community-based service providers to develop and implement a comprehensive plan to support successful reintegration of people into their communities and to lower Michigan's recidivism rate.
300,000
2005
26 months
Michigan Prisoner Reentry Project Opinion Leader Education
This grant supports a non-partisan educational effort for Michigan legislators about Michigan Prison Reentry Initiative.
Center for Mental Health Services & Criminal Justice Research: Social Capital and Its Potential as a Reentry Asset
The Center conducts research and provides technical assistance and training on criminal justice and mental health issues. This grant supports a study on how “social capital†– the resources exchanged through family, friends, and professional affiliations – affects returning prisoners.
Returning Home: Understanding the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry
he Urban Institute (UI) is a nonpartisan policy and research organization that investigates social and economic problems in the U.S. One of eleven specialized research centers at UI, the Justice Policy Center carries out research to better inform policy on crime, justice and community safety. This policy research study on prisoner reentry will inform the national dialogue about policies and practices that can better support successful prisoner reintegration into their communities. The study looks at the impact of reentry on former prisoners, their families and communities with a focus on five key states. This grant supports further analysis of data already compiled in Returning Home: Understanding the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry.
Center for Research on Youth and Social Policy
The Center for Research on Youth and Social Policy (Center) is a resource for professional organizations, policy makers, and criminal and juvenile justice professionals interested in recent developments in operating justice systems at the local, state, and national levels. This grant supports the Center's two-part study to document the extent to which victim and non-victim testimony affects paroling decisions.
Parole Reinvention
This grant will enable the Urban Institute to produce a paper that surveys current research and best practices in the areas of parole supervision, violation, and revocation; and to conduct two meetings on these topics for practitioners, federal agencies, national technical assistance organizations, and other private funders.
Community Partners Reinvestment Project
Volunteers of America Oregon is a community-based service organization leading a collaboration that includes the Multnomah County Department of Community Justice Transitional Services Unit, the Oregon Department of Corrections and several other nonprofit groups. The collaboration will implement a model reentry program designed to provide community and system-wide support for young people (aged 18-25) coming home from prison.
Institute on Women & Criminal Justice
Women's Prison Association & Home supports women prisoners, former prisoners, and their families in their efforts to disengage themselves from the criminal justice system. This grant supports the planning and development of an advocacy-driven research Institute to advance policies and practices that improve outcomes for justice involved women and their families.
