RPC Newsletter - 7/24/2008
FEATURES
The Council of State Governments Justice Center announced today the availability of an online version of the Repaying Debts report, a first-of-its-kind comprehensive guide that offers recommendations on how policymakers can increase financial accountability among people leaving correctional facilities, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make individuals' transitions from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.
ANNOUNCEMENTS & EVENTS
Grants Training: Build your Skills to Help your Cause
Strategy Matters
July 30, 2008
Worchester, MA
California Black-Brown Summit on Re-entry
NAACP - LULAC - Homeward Bound
August 1-3, 2008
Stockton, CA
National Forum on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
National Criminal Justice Association
August 3-5, 2008
Louisville, KY
White House Conference on Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives
August 18, 2008
Sacramento, CA
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Mentoring Children of Prisoners Training and Technical Assistance
The Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is currently seeking applications for its Mentoring Children of Prisoners Training and Technical Assistance program. This cooperative agreement will enhance the programmatic and administrative capacities of public and private agencies that provide services to youth as part of the national Mentoring Children of Prisoners (MCP) initiative. The successful applicant will be responsible for the planning, coordination, production, and execution of training activities to promote optimum services for MCP programs.
Application Deadline: August 11, 2008
REENTRY NEWS
- SC: 7/22/08 - Drug court: The hard road to a new life (The State)
- DE: 7/22/08 - Success of drug program is celebrated (Wilmington News Journal)
- WI: 7/21/08 - Editorial: Jobs fight crime (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
- AL: 7/21/08 - Mentors help bridge gaps in lives of Alabama prisoners' children (The Birmingham News)
- IN: 7/21/08 - Dungy to chair ex-offender job program (Indianapolis Star)
PUBLICATIONS AND RESOURCES
- Legal Employers Taking the Lead: Enhancing Employment Opportunities for the Previously Incarcerated (New York City Bar Association) - pdf
- Back to School: A Guide to Continuing Your Education after Prison (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Prisoner Reentry Institute) - pdf
- Going to Work with a Criminal Record (Public/Private Ventures) - pdf
- Jail Inmates at Midyear 2007 (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics) - pdf
- Prison Inmates at Midyear 2007 (U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics) - pdf
- Children and Families of Incarcerated Parents: Understanding the Challenges and Addressing the Needs (Washington State Department of Social and Health Services) - doc
In this Issue
Our Publications
This publication discusses how policymakers can increase accountability among people who commit crimes, improve rates of child support collection and victim restitution, and make people’s transition from prisons and jails to the community safe and successful.