Sessions in the Reentry Learning Track include:
Recent National Study Findings from Transitional Jobs Programs Working with People with Criminal Records
This session will focus on research findings and implications for the Transitional Jobs field from the national Hard to Employ study, conducted by MDRC. Facilitator Jennifer Phillips will provide context to the Joyce Foundation's Transitional Jobs Research Demonstration Project, and Mindy Tarlow, CEO of the Center for Employment Opportunities in New York, will provide context and lessons learned as a provider involved in the Hard to Employ Research Demonstration Project.
Facilitator:
Jennifer Phillips – Program Officer, The Joyce Foundation
Presenters:
Dan Bloom – Director, Welfare, and Barriers to Employment Policy, MDRC
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Mindy Tarlow – Chief Executive Officer, Center for Employment Opportunities
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Transitional Jobs & People with Criminal Records: An Expert Panel of Court Deferment, Pre-Release, & Reentry Strategies
This session will showcase Transitional Jobs programs working with people with criminal records from three different lenses. Participants will learn about the components and operation, as well as the strategic partners involved in each approach.
Facilitator:
Francina Carter – Offender Workforce Development Specialist, National Institute of Corrections
Panelists:
Deborah Alvarez-Rodriguez – President and CEO, Goodwill Industries of San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin Counties
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Keith Bennett – Program Director, Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
Mindy Tarlow – Chief Executive Officer, Center for Employment Opportunities
Child Support & Employment: Responses and Innovations from the Workforce Development & Reentry Fields
Guided by experts in the fields of Child Support and Reentry Policy and Advocacy, with a perspective from a reentry Transitional Jobs program provider, this session will highlight the opportunities and challenges in child support and reentry and how programs across the country are designing and implementing approaches that serve as win-wins for both non-custodial parents reentering communities and their children.
Facilitator:
Linda Johnson – Assistant Commissioner Career Development Services, Georgia Department of Labor
Presenters:
Robert Johnson – Member, National Fatherhood Leadership Group
Vicki Turetsky – Director of Family Policy, Center on Law and Social Policy
Gregg Keesling – President & CEO, Workforce, Inc.
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Click here to download "Child Support Cuts - Starting to Shrink Family Income: Reversing Cuts Now Will Provide a Needed Boost to the Economy"
Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2008
Click here to download "Child Support - Ripple Effects Throughout the Community"
Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2008
Click here to download "Child Support - Restored Federal Funding Needed to Implement New Child Support Pass-Through Options"
Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2008
Click here to download "Child Support - It Makes Sound Fiscal Sense to Restore Funding for Child Support Enforcement"
Center for Law and Social Policy, January 2008
Implementing Transitional Jobs as a Reentry Strategy: Lessons Learned from Departments of Corrections
This session will focus on state funded Transitional Jobs programs developed as reentry strategies in two states. Presenters will share their program designs, funding mechanisms, and partnerships and will candidly share both the successes and setbacks experienced in the development and implementation phases of their projects. This is an ideal session for anyone interested developing or better understanding how states can support the development of Transitional Jobs programs.
Facilitator:
Melissa Young – Coordinator, National Transitional Jobs Network
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Presenters:
Tamela Aikens – Community Coordinator, Michigan Prisoner ReEntry Initiative, Michigan Department of Corrections
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Lisa Hampton – Manager, Office of Reentry Management, Illinois Department of Corrections
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Entrepreneurship & Reentry: Creating Employment Opportunities for People with Criminal Records
As persons with criminal records continue to be locked out of employment opportunities, innovative programs have begun to develop opportunities for people with criminal records to advance in developing entrepreneurial ventures. This session will review the policy and practice around the country and assist participants in finding the resources to develop similar opportunities in their communities.
Presenters:
Elizabeth Wilson – Senior Director and Trainer, Association for Enterprise Opportunity
David Lewis – President and Co-Founder, Free At Last
