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When the Gates Open describes the emergence of Ready4Work, a 17-site, national ex-prisoner reentry initiative developed by P/PV. The report outlines the initiative's basic goals and design, and examines how it is directly confronting the nation's reentry crisis by drawing on local faith- and community-based organizations to provide job training, mentoring, case management and job placement services.
With support from both government and private sources, Ready4Work was launched in 2003 and will continue through 2006. To date it has served more than 3,100 former prisoners.
The report documents a rare partnership among the business, government, community and faith sectors, as they come together to confront alarmingly high incarceration and recidivism rates. It describes key start-up and implementation challenges and, using early outcomes data, touches on a number of promising practices for future reentry efforts.
The report is available at: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/189_publication.pdf
Posted on November 9, 2005 11:12 AM
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