Chicago's Safer Foundation: A Road Back for Ex-Offenders
Publication year:
1998
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The Safer Foundation helps ex-offenders find and hold jobs, and has expanded its focus to provide basic education, life skills training, support for solving social problems, and followup services after placement. Its Programmed Activities for Correctional Education (PACE) Institute provides detainees and inmates in Chicago's Cook County Jail with basic education and life skills courses and some one-on-one tutoring. Its Crossroads Community Correctional Center, Illinois' largest work release center, provides extensive educational and employment readiness programming. Program features, effectiveness, and keys to success are described.