Finding employment with a criminal record is not easy. For justice involved youth and adults, the employment landscape includes background checks, that can be overshadowed by probation or parole, housing concerns, limited or inadequate education and job skills, and mental health issues.
However, there are programs and initiatives out there through the public workforce system and our partners to assist with the process Workforce GPS’s Reentry Employment Opportunities Community offers practitioners new ideas and tools to do the invaluable work of changing lives and renewing futures of former offenders. In addition, to this site, we have gathered a list of resources, webinars and organizations that focus on providing assistance to adults re-entering the workforce.
Relevant WorkforceGPS Communities:
Resources
- Case Management Models for Pre- and Post-Release Employment Services Issue Brief: Lessons from LEAP
- Clean Slate Clearinghouse
- Collaborating for Successful Reentry
- Connecting Criminal Justice-Involved People with Medicaid Coverage and Services
- Engaging Employers to Hire Individuals with a Criminal History
- Federal Bonding Program
- Final Implementation Findings from the Responsible Fatherhood Reentry Projects
- H-1B TechHire Grantees Help Justice-Involved Individuals Achieve Self-Sufficiency
- How SNAP Can Better Serve the Formerly Incarcerated
- Justice Involved Veterans
- Incarceration to Reentry: Education & Training Pathways: California
- Incarceration to Reentry: Education & Training Pathways: Indiana
- Integrated Reentry and Employment Strategies: Reducing Recidivism and Promoting Job Readiness
- Mentoring as a Component of Reentry: Practical Considerations from the Field
- Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) Fact Sheet
- The First Step Act
Webinars
Organizations
- Federal Bureau of Prisons
- National Institute of Corrections: Transition and Offender Workforce Development
- The National Reentry Resource Center
- Prisoner Reentry Institute
- U.S. Department of Justice
