down Go Back to Impact Stories Juvenile Reentry Education Initiative In partnership with At a Glance Everyone deserves a second chance. JFF assists youth leaving prison with career and technical training that helps them find jobs and stabilize their lives. Capabilities Design Scale Areas of Work Ensuring Equity in Advancement Meeting Employer Needs Topics People Returning from Jails/Prisons Opportunity Youth Foster Youth Employers Postsecondary Community-Based Organizations State & Local Workforce Systems Adult Basic Education Career Pathways Equity Experts Involved Lucretia Murphy Vice President, Center for Justice & Economic Advancement Taylor Maag Associate Director Status In progress Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share via Email JFF is providing technical assistance to the US Department of Education juvenile reentry education grants under a federal contract.
Report/Research Supporting Second Chances: Education and Employment Strategies for People Returning from Correctional Facilities With over 700,000 people transitioning out of state and federal correctional facilities each year, there is an urgent need to do more to help this population successfully reintegrate into society.
Report/Research Juvenile Justice Reform: Federal Funding Opportunities This report, the second in a series highlighting potential ways for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to work more effectively with the federal government, shows how the state could better leverage federal funding for necessary resources.
Post A Challenge for Our Times At a time when the country is trying to address the issue of mass incarceration, community colleges, community-based organizations, and prison and county jail systems are receiving aid to create pathways from incarceration to credentials.
Post The Realities of Reentry: Making Reentry Work for Women As workforce development tailors educational and vocational models to meet the needs of those reentering society, we must ensure these reentry strategies and programs work just as well for women.
Post Putting a Face on Transformation What does it take to rebuild one’s life after prison? Education is critical, and school programs are even more effective when they are connected to job training that begins in prison and continues through the reentry process.
Report/Research 2017: Voices of Reentry Voices of Reentry is a series profiling people who are making good on second chances after they return to society from incarceration.
Post National Reentry Week: The Voices of Reentry As part of National Reentry Week, JFF highlighted the work of entities providing reentry education to young people and adults across the country as part of the Department of Education's Improved Reentry Education Demonstration Project.
Post Supporting Second Chances: 3 Priorities to Ease Prisoner Reentry More than 2 million people are incarcerated on any given day in the United States. We can—and must—do much more to help these young people and adults become productive members of society when they return to their communities.
Post Obama Announces New Grants to Support Reentry Success for Formerly Incarcerated Adults Under President Obama, the Improved Reentry Initiative was created to ensure the development of critical pathways between prison education and postsecondary opportunities.
Post National Reentry Week Recognizes Successful Programs for Former Prisoners The Department of Justice designated April 25–29 as National Reentry Week in an effort to highlight the difficult and critical work that takes place nationally to enable youth and adults to successfully reenter their communities.
