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National Resources
The following national organizations provide resources that may be helpful
in developing a reentry initiative in your state or community. Use the names
of these organizations to link to their Web sites.
- American Correctional Association.
ACA is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals who represent all
aspects of corrections and criminal justice, including federal, state, and
military correctional facilities and prisons; county jails and detention
centers; probation/parole agencies; and community corrections/halfway houses.
- American Probation and Parole Association.
The American Probation and Parole Association (APPA) explores issues relevant
to the field of community-based corrections. APPA is an international association
of members from the United States, its Territories, and Canada who are involved
with probation, parole, and community-based corrections in both adult and
juvenile sectors at all levels of government.
- Association of State Correctional Administrators. The Association of State Correctional Administrators (ASCA) is a nonprofit organization that works to improve correctional services and practices nationwide. ASCA's web site provides information about funding opportunities, upcoming conferences, new research, and an annotated list of and links to publications related to the field of corrections.
- The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents (CCIP) documents and develops model services for children of criminal offenders and their families. CCIP seeks to prevent intergenerational crime and incarceration through activities in four component areas: education, family reunification, therapeutic services, and information.
- Center for Effective Public Policy. The center provides assistance on a variety of issues and topics related to criminal justice, including offender management, collaboration as a method to enhance justice-related efforts, and offender assessment and decisionmaking. The center also publishes training curricula, policy and practice briefs, handbooks, video seminars, and other resources on these topics.
- Center for Restorative Justice and
Peacemaking. The University of Minnesota Center for Restorative Justice
and Peacemaking, located at the School of Social Work on the University’s
St. Paul campus, was established to provide technical assistance, training,
and research in support of restorative justice practices and principles
in the State of Minnesota, nationally, and internationally.
- Council of Juvenile Correctional
Administrators. The Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators
is an organization dedicated to the improvement of youth correctional services
and practices.
- Council of State Governments Justice Center. The center serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels. It provides practical advice and consensus-driven strategies to increase public safety and strengthen communities. Current projects include the Criminal Justice/Mental Health Consensus Project, the Re-Entry Policy Council, and the Justice Reinvestment Initiative.
- CRAFT (Community Restitution
Apprenticeship Focused Training). Developed and initiated by the Home
Builders Institute, the educational arm of the National Association of
Home Builders, CRAFT is a national training program for high-risk and adjudicated
youth.
- CURE (Citizens United for Rehabilitation
of Errants). CURE is a membership organization of current and former
prisoners, their families, and other concerned citizens. CURE’s two goals
are to use prisons only for those who have to be in them and to provide
prisoners all the rehabilitative opportunities they need to turn their
lives around.
- Family Justice Institute. The institute works to break cycles of involvement with the criminal justice system and to promote public safety and safety in the home. The institute also serves as a resource for the criminal justice field, families, and communities, providing direct services, research, technical assistance, education, and policy reform.
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Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners. Operated by the Child Welfare League of America, the Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners conducts research and evaluation, collects and disseminates information, provides training and technical assistance, and increases awareness about families separated by incarceration. The Resource Center's goal is to improve the quality of information available about children with incarcerated parents and to develop resources that will help create better outcomes for these children and their families.
- Funding Exchange. The Funding Exchange—a
network of 15 community foundations throughout the United States, with a
national office in New York City—funds community-based efforts that address
a wide range of social problems, with an emphasis on grassroots organizing.
- GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring
Disorders in the Justice System. The GAINS Center is a national technology
transfer organization for dually diagnosed criminal justice populations.
The project gives technical assistance to justice systems that try to improve
intervention by targeting mental health disorders and addictions.
- Institute of Law, Psychiatry and
Public Policy. The goals of the Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public
Policy are to understand, assess, prevent, and manage violence in society;
to promote human rights by developing and strengthening the ethical and
legal foundations of the rights of persons who have or are perceived to
have mental illnesses and disabilities; to improve law and policy by developing
and shaping laws and public policies related to mental health and human
development; and to provide better information to civil and criminal courts
by improving the capacity of mental health disciplines to give reliable
clinical and scientific information to courts that will help them make
informed decisions.
- International Community Corrections Association. A nonprofit membership organization of community-based corrections programs, the International Community Corrections Association's mission is the "successful reintegration of the client into the community." The association provides information and training to enhance the quality of services and supervision for adult and juvenile offenders and to promote effective management practices.
- Justice Fellowship. The Justice Fellowship is a non-profit online community founded in 1983 as a subsidiary of Prison Fellowship Ministries. Justice Fellowship works to have a presence in local, state, and federal jurisdictions.
- Justice Research and Statistics Association.
The Justice Research and Statistics Association is a national organization
of State Statistical Analysis Center directors, analysts, researchers, and
practitioners.
- National Association for Community Mediation.
The National Association for Community Mediation is a membership organization
comprising community mediation centers, their staff, and volunteer mediators,
and other individuals and organizations interested in the community mediation
movement.
- National Center for Victims of Crime.
The mission of the National Center for Victims of Crime is to forge a national
commitment to help victims of crime rebuild their lives. The center serves
individuals, families, and communities harmed by crime.
- National Commission on Correctional Health
Care. The National Commission on Correctional Health Care’s mission
is to improve the quality of health care provided in jails, prisons, and
juvenile confinement facilities.
- National Correctional Industries Association.
The National Correctional Industries Association’s Prison Industry Enhancement
Certification Program encourages states and units of local government to
establish employment opportunities for prisoners that approximate private
sector work opportunities.
- National Fatherhood Initiative. The National Fatherhood Initiative works to improve the well being of children by increasing the proportion of children growing up with involved, responsible, and committed fathers. The initiative has partnered with organizations such as The Salvation Army, 100 Black Men of America, YMCA, Boeing, Boy Scouts of America, Head Start, and FranklinCovey to carry the message of responsible fatherhood to a diverse audience.
- National Juvenile Detention Association.
The National Juvenile Detention Association exists exclusively to advance
the science, processes, and art of juvenile detention services through the
overall improvement of the juvenile justice profession.
- National Organization for Victim Assistance.
The National Organization for Victim Assistance is a private, nonprofit,
501(c)(3) organization of victim and witness assistance programs. It comprises
practitioners, criminal justice agencies and professionals, mental health
professionals, researchers, former victims and survivors, and others committed
to the recognition and implementation of victim rights and services.
- National Treatment Accountability
for Safer Communities. National Treatment Accountability for Safer
Communities is a membership organization representing individuals and programs
dedicated to the professional delivery of treatment and case management
services to substance abusing populations.
- Newman’s Own. Newman’s
Own, provides grant opportunities that can be applicable to nonprofit community
and faith-based
organizations addressing reentry. Eligible charities must be U.S. organizations
with an IRS 501(c)(3) designation. Schools, hospitals, and other public institutions
are also eligible.
- Offender Preparation & Education
Network, Inc. (OPEN, INC.). OPEN, INC., a small, nonprofit organization
founded in Dallas, TX, in 1979, develops educational materials and programs
that are used by correctional agencies to help offenders prepare to live
as law-abiding citizens.
- PEPNet: Promising and Effective Practices
Network. Administered by the National Youth Employment Coalition and
the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention and funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, PEPNet assists organizations
working with juvenile offenders in both residential and community settings.
- Public/Private Ventures. Public/Private
Ventures is a national nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve
the effectiveness of social policies, programs, and community initiatives,
especially as they affect youth and young adults.
- Reentry Policy Council. The Reentry Policy Council is a national project coordinated by the Council of State Governments Justice Center, a national nonprofit organization that serves policymakers at the local, state, and federal levels from all branches of government. The Justice Center provides practical, nonpartisan advice and consensus-driven strategies—informed by available evidence—to increase public safety and strengthen communities.
- Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign. The Campaign is designed to support the work of community and faith-based organizations through offering media resources that will facilitate community discussion and decision making about solution-based reentry programs.
- Reentry Net. Reentry.Net is a clearinghouse of materials for attorneys, social service providers, and policy reform advocates on reentry and the consequences of criminal proceedings.
- RP Media. RP Media, Inc specializes in the production and distribution of gender and culturally responsive reentry and at- risk youth media. Educational materials are targeted to junior/senior high schools, corrections, universities, and community-based youth organizations.
- Street Law, Inc. In conjunction
with the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Crime Prevention Council,
Street Law has developed several educational programs and curriculums for
use with juvenile justice and young offender reentry programs. Street Law
works with local programs to effectively produce and implement educational
programs dealing with violence, substance abuse, family issues and parenting,
conflict resolution, and legal issues.
- SVORI Multisite Evaluation. The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative (SVORI) was the precursor of the Prisoner Reentry Initiative. Established in 2003 by the U.S. Departments of Justice, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, and Health and Human Services, this initiative provided funding to 69 grantees to develop programming, training, and state-of-the-art reentry strategies at the community level as well as to improve employment, housing, and health outcomes of participating released prisoners.
- Time Dollar Institute. Time Dollars
are a new, tax-exempt kind of money. People can convert their personal time
into purchasing power by helping others and by rebuilding family, neighborhood,
and community. An hour spent helping another earns one Time Dollar.
- United States Parole Commission.
The United States Parole Commission promotes public safety by exercising
its authority regarding the release and supervision of criminal offenders
under its jurisdiction in a way that advances justice.
- The Urban Institute. The Urban
Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington,
DC, in 1968. The Institute’s goals are to sharpen thinking about society’s
problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their
implementation, and increase citizens’ awareness about important public choices.
- Vera Institute of Justice. Vera pioneers
development of unexpected, yet practical and affordable, solutions to some
of the toughest problems in criminal justice to make the system more fair,
humane, and efficient.
- Volunteers of America. Volunteers of America’s
corrections services help inmates and offenders rebuild their lives. The
services provide the tools ex-offenders need to rejoin mainstream society,
make positive contributions, and avoid future incarceration.
- Welfare Information Network. The
Welfare Information Network provides information on policy choices, promising
practices, program and financial data, funding sources, federal and state
legislation and plans, program and management tools, and technical assistance.
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