Offender Employment : Faith Based

Offender Workforce Development Announcements: Conferences, Grants

Scott — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:43:00 GMT

NCDA Global Conference: July 9-11, 2008
The National Career Development Association is excited to announce the 2008 NCDA Global Conference. The conference will be held at the wonderful Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill, Washington D.C., July 9-11, 2008. You won't want to miss this great opportunity to attend this conference! NCDA is expecting 1,000+ attendees at the premiere conference for career development professionals across all areas of career development and in all settings. For more information, click here.

White House To Host Faith-Based and Community Initiatives Conferences

The White House is hosting a series of 2008 conferences designed to connect effective social service organizations with resources that can strengthen and expand the services they offer. The conferences will provide an understanding of the President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative and information about the Federal grants process, funding opportunities, and the responsibilities that come with Federal funding.

The conferences are scheduled as follows:

May 29-30, in New Orleans, LA
June 26-27, in Washington, DC
August 5, in Sacramento, CA
August 29, in Dallas, TX.

Go to http://www.dtiassociates.com/fbci/index.cfm for more informatino.

U.S. Department of Labor awards nearly $3 million to advance President's Prisoner Re-entry Initiative

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced grants totaling almost $3 million to advance the President's Prisoner Re-entry Initiative. Through a partnership operated with the U.S. Department of Justice, grants of $130,434 each will go to 23 criminal justice agencies across the country. They, in turn, will fund faith-based and community organizations to deliver employment services to prisoners returning to civilian life. For more information, click here.

The Performance Benchmarking Project

The Performance Benchmarking Project is seeking prisoner reentry/employment organizations to participate in the next round of data collection. P/PV is developing a tool that allows similar organizations to anonymously compare their job placement and retention outcomes. A long-term goal of the project is to identify meaningful outcome benchmarks for the workforce development field, so that practitioners, funders and policymakers can be better informed about what constitutes "good" performance when working with diverse populations and service delivery strategies.

To be eligible, organizations must directly provide workforce development services to individuals 18 or older and be able to submit aggregate data on job placement and retention results, services and participant characteristics for a recent one-year cohort of enrollees. For a summary of the requested data, please click here.

Presidents 2008 Community Based Job Training Grant Awardees

Click here for the list of awardees.

Press Release: White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Summit on Prisoner Re-Entry

Scott — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 16:35:00 GMT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:

December , 2007

Local Leader Presents Workshop at White House Faith-Based

And Community Initiatives National Summit on Prisoner Re-Entry

LOS ANGELES - Patricia E. Taylor, Correctional Program Specialist with the Offender Workforce Division - National Institute of Corrections & Dennis Gilbertson, Program Manager - Hennepin County Adult Correctional Facility- Hennepin County Department of Corrections were co-presenters at the White House Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Summit on Prisoner Re-Entry that was held on November 27 and 28 in Los Angeles. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Jay Hein, Director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives also presented at the Summit.

The Summit's audience included top Federal, state and local corrections officials, academics, media and nonprofit leaders. The event highlighted some of the country's best models for government partnership with community- and faith-based organizations to reduce crime and break cycles of recidivism.

"The challenges that face returning prisoners are so great that government can't solve this issue on its own," Director Hein said. "Dedicated faith-based and community nonprofits provide what government cannot: personal engagement, real hope and a fresh vision for life. It's the caring touch of groups like these that often makes the critical difference between returning to crime and a new start."

Each year, more than 650,000 inmates are released from federal and state prisons and return to their communities and families. According to the Department of Justice, more than two-thirds of returning inmates will be rearrested within three years of their release from prison. This Summit addressed the tremendous human needs associated with recidivism by bringing together federal, state, and local decision-makers with non-governmental organizations to promote jobs, transitional housing, education, substance abuse treatment, positive mentoring relationships and other transitional services.

President George W. Bush created the White House Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives and Centers for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in eleven federal agencies to lead a determined attack on need by strengthening and expanding the work of faith-based and community organizations in providing social services. Efforts to enable returning prisoners to make a new start after prisoner have been an area of focus for the Initiative. Innovative partnerships between government and community- and faith-based nonprofits, such as Ready4Work and the Prisoner Reentry Initiative, are showing strong results in cutting crime and reducing recidivism.

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Information about the upcoming Defendant/Offender Workforce Development (DOWD) Conference

Scott — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:55:00 GMT

The 2008 Defendant/Offender Workforce Development (DOWD) Conference will take place April 13 - 16 in Cleveland, OH. The National Career Development Association (NCDA) will partner with the US Probation Office - Northern District of Ohio, the National Institute of Corrections, Federal Bureau of Prisons, US Probation Office of Eastern District of Missouri, Offices of Probation and Pre-Trial Services; and the Administrative Office of the US Courts, to host the conference.

Click here for the 2008 DOWD Conference program.

Please visit NCDA's DOWD Conference Webpage for hotel and registration information.

CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE

Sunday, April 13, 2008:
3:00 - 6:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibitor Set Up
4:00 - 6:00 pm OWDS Master Trainers/Instructors Meeting
5:00 - 6:00 pm First timers Session
7:00 - 8:30 pm OWDS Reunion Reception

Monday, April 14, 2008:
8:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibits Open
9:00 - 11:30 am NIC Sponsored Pre-Conference Workshops (no cost)
12:00 - 2:00 pm Opening Luncheon/Keynote
2:30 - 4:00 pm Presentations Series A
4:20 - 5:50 pm Presentations Series B
6:30 - 8:00 pm Opening Reception

Tuesday, April 15, 2008:
7:30 - 8:30 am Continental Breakfast
7:30 - 5:00 pm Registration Open & Exhibits Open
8:30 - 10:00 am Second Plenary/Keynote
10:30 - 12:00 pm Presentations Series C
12:30 - 2:00 pm Awards Luncheon
2:30 - 4:00 pm Presentations Series D
2:30 - 4:00 pm Tours of Federal Facility
4:00 - 6:00 pm Exhibits Tear Down
6:00 pm Group Night Out (additional cost required)

Wednesday, April 16, 2008:
8:00 - 9:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:00 am - 2:00 pm Registration Open
9:00 - 10:30 am Closing Plenary/Keynote
10:30 am - 12:30 pm Regional Roundtables
1:00 - 5:00 pm Inmate Skills Development System Training for BOP Coordinators