Accelerating Adult Reentry: A Practical Capacity Building Model for Sustaining Post-Release Transitional Services

 Permanent Solutions to Permanent Problems

The universal, pervasive, and persistent problem of adult reentry after incarceration concerns communities throughout the country. This book offers a comprehensive strategy for building lasting public reentry programs that help solve this problem and improve our neighborhoods. The approach involves a collaborative matrix and a method of Capacity Building from the bottom up. Actions are organized around the program's Life Cycle for an orderly path to permanency. Delineated action items and Effective Practices explain how you can:

1. Cultivate leadership.
2. Assess your service idea's capacity.
3. Evaluate your processes and analyze their impact.
4. Obtain financial and other physical resources.
5. Develop your service providers.
6. Train your staff and plan for succession.
7. Give order to the all-important process of implementation.
8. Stabilize, sustain, and expand your operations.

Communities bear the burden of putting together and sustaining services to not only transition returnees but support them in becoming productive citizens. It can and is being done!

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Affinitas LLC
Published: 01/01/2025
ISBN: 9798985011975
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.01lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.71d