Building community capacity to support offender re-integration is a key element in long-term reentry and systems change planning.  Collaboration among multiple stakeholders is inextricably linked to the success of reentry initiatives.

While parole officers are the principal decision makers concerning an offender’s community supervision, the collaborative case management framework emphasizes the establishment of meaningful collaborative partnerships to maximize offender success.

Do you know what set of actions are necessary to assist your agency in adopting a framework necessary to ensure its reentry efforts are appropriately aligned at multi-disciplinary levels?  How will you guide your reentry implementation planning process to foster a proactive, collaborative, community-based approach to reducing crime and recidivism?

During this course, we will explore the answers to these questions, and more including, how you can best marshal your resources to ensure efficient cross-system collaborations.

For reentry policies to yield results, they must be fully integrated with effective community coordination strategies that involve governmental and non-governmental stakeholders.  The past decade has been enlightened by research establishing the correlation between crime reduction, and strong social supports and community involvement.  In order for increased capacity to be relevant, efforts must first start with building community partnerships.

This course will also examine best practice approaches to building community capacity essential to support prisoner reentry.