Transition and Workforce Development

National HIRE Network (New York, NY).

This page includes state-specific governmental agencies and community-based organizations to assist people with criminal records, practitioners, researchers, and policy makers. These agencies and organizations may be of assistance in providing job-related and legal services, answering questions arising from having a criminal record, or offering referrals to other useful organizations.

CareerOneStop.

Looking for a One-Stop Center in your jurisdiction? Take a look at Job Banks for your state.

National Reentry Resource Center (New York, NY)

This easty to navigate site provides resources on a range of reentry issues. The website also contains the Report of the Re-Entry Policy Council, a comprehensive guide published in 2005 that contains hundreds of policy recommendations for legislators, service providers, researchers, criminal justice professionals, and others involved in creating and implementing effective reentry initiatives.

U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (Washington, DC).

"A handbook containing useful checklists, available services, helpful tools, and many other reentry resources."

U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (Washington, DC).

"A handbook containing useful checklists, available services, helpful tools, and many other reentry resources."

This is a resource manual developed by FCI McKean for their Offender Transition Program. The manual contains information on internet resources, career exploration, and general assitance programs.

"Below you’ll find [13] answers to questions you may have about how being incarcerated in an adult correctional facility or committed to a juvenile justice facility affects your eligibility for federal student aid for college or career school" (p. 1).

This series of issue briefs from the Evaluation of the Linking to Employment Prerelease (LEAP) grants explores key challenges in establishing American Job Centers [AJCs] in local jails.

Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates.

This brief "explores their approach to staffing jail-based AJCs, including the varying staffing configurations, key staff qualifications, hiring and onboarding processes, and strategies to expedite hiring based on lessons learned".

Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates.

"Linking to Employment Activities Pre-Release (LEAP) grantees were permitted to spend the first 9 months of the 24-month project period on planning and start-up activities before enrolling participants into their jail-based American Job Centers (AJCs). This brief uses data ... to explore the factors that enabled them to complete these activities more quickly than the time allotted."

Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates.

This brief discusses how LEAP workforce development staff worked with jail administrators to gain access to jail space and their strategies for scheduling services inside the jail-based AJC[American Jail Center].

Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates.

"This brief uses data from site visits to 8 of the 20 Linking to Employment Activities Pre-release (LEAP) sites to explore the role of Internet access in pre-release employment services as well as the resources, staffing, and infrastructure needed to establish Internet access for a jail-based AJC [American Job Center]."

Princeton, NJ, and Oakland, CA: Mathematica Policy Research and Social Policy Research Associates.

This brief draws on data from visits to all 20 LEAP sites and focuses on the strategies the grantees used during the early planning and implementation period to build common ground between jail and workforce staff in promoting successful reentry for participants.