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Serious and Violent Offender Reentry
Initiative Grantees
Tennessee Department of Children's Services (Amount: $936,000*)
The Tennessee Intensive Aftercare Program is a statewide collaborative
effort among the Departments of Children Services, Labor and Workforce,
Health, and Mental Health and the Division of Probation and Aftercare.
The program’s reentry initiative will target offenders ages 14–19
from Shelby, Davidson, and Hamilton Counties. The program’s services
will include employment training and placement, educational services,
tutoring, vocational skills training, recreational programs, self-help
services, counseling, independent living assistance, substance
abuse treatment, mental health treatment, medical services, community
service, housing assistance, community support services, restitution,
aftercare services, life skills training, family support and reunification
services, parenting classes, supervision, and intensive case management.
Local contact: Sherry Schedler, 901–405–8526.
Tennessee Department of Corrections (Amount: $1,064,000*)
The Tennessee Department of Corrections’ Tennessee Bridges program
will use its Intensive Aftercare Program to provide services to
serious and violent offenders. A case manager and the supervising
parole officer will develop an individualized reentry plan for
each offender. The department’s Director of Pre-Release and Transition
Services and a grant-funded administrative assistant will coordinate
information from the project transitional team, the Reentry Steering
Committee, and the Board of Probation and Parole and ensure data
and statistics are maintained for program evaluation purposes.
Tennessee Bridges will implement a multifaceted evaluation component
that will provide the Reentry Steering Committee with feedback
on a continual basis. The feedback will be used to improve the
program and its services. Tennessee Bridges will target high-risk
offenders ages 18–35 who have been confined for at least 12 consecutive
months under the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections.
The project will serve the state’s three largest counties/cities:
Knox County, Knoxville; Davidson County, Nashville; and Shelby
County, Memphis. The program will serve 100 offenders per year
for 3 years. For more
information, read this grantee’s workplan.
Local contact: Rae Ann Coughlin, 615–741–1000, ext. 2.
[Asterisks indicate award amounts that are subject to final
review.]
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Local Organizations & Resources
Chattanooga Endeavors
310 East Eighth Street
Chattanooga, TN 37404
423–266–1888
423–266–2196 (fax)
Chattanooga Endeavors restores ex-offenders to productive roles
in society through training, counseling, and education programs
that remove the barriers to meaningful employment. Ex-offenders
are taught the skills they need to transition back to the community
and live within the law. The program focuses on substance-abuse
recovery, education, employment, and conflict resolution and targets
ex-offenders who are at risk of recidivism because of chronic unemployment
or underemployment. The following four-step program is offered:
1) a 5-week, intensive, psychoeducation course, 2) a 2-week job
acquisition program, 3) up to 1 year of aftercare and case management,
and 4) supplemental training as needed. Supplemental training includes
substance-abuse treatment, education enhancement, and related services.
Youth Villages
P.O. Box
341154
Memphis, TN 38184–1154
901–252–7600
www.youthvillages.org
Youth Villages offers help and hope to more than 2,000 troubled
and at-risk children and their families each year through home-based
counseling, therapeutic foster care and adoption services, residential
treatment, community-based programs, and prevention services in
Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Texas.
If you know of a local organization or resource that should
be added here, please e-mail us at askreentry@ncjrs.gov. Be sure to write "Local Organizations & Resources" in
the subject line. Provide a brief one-paragraph description of
the organization or resource and include any appropriate contact
information (name of organization or resource, name of contact
person, mailing address, phone number, fax number, e-mail address,
and URL).
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