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Serious and Violent Offender Reentry
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Serious and Violent Offender Reentry
Initiative Grantees
Massachusetts Department of Corrections (Amount: $1,000,077*)
The Massachusetts Department of Corrections will target high-risk
offenders ages 18–35. The program will assess offenders’ needs
in housing, substance abuse, mental health, and employment and
will address these needs by developing individual program participation
plans. Project funds will be used to provide housing-related services
for offenders within the target population; design, build, test,
and improve a system using ongoing resources so that reentry programs
are not dependent on federal funding; enhance existing state and
local resources and provide options not otherwise available or
sufficient; and hire one full-time director of reentry, five full-time
reentry case managers, and five full-time housing specialists.
Local contact: Geralyn Riley, 508–422–3366.
Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (Amount: $999,668*)
The Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) will target
high-risk offenders ages 16–21 returning to targeted neighborhoods
in the City of Boston. DYS will work with various local employment,
law enforcement, social services, and treatment agencies and several
youth and community organizations. This effort will provide mental
health services, individual and group counseling, medical and dental
services, housing assistance, vocational training, intensive case
management, intensive supervision and monitoring, job placement,
life skills training, parenting classes, educational assistance,
in- and outpatient health services, apprenticeship opportunities,
community outreach and support, and ongoing reentry staff support.
Local contact: Christine Hunt, 617–960–3281.
[Asterisks indicate award amounts that are subject to final
review.]
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