Rising Scholars Program: Merced College Library: Resources for Reentry
Cross-disciplinary library guide that provides one stop for accessing resources for students and faculty. Forms, timelines and contact information are also provided.
This program inspires children of inmates to read more often, connects children and incarcerated parents through stories, and gives prisoners extra confidence to read to their children, even if they are not strong readers themselves.
The goal of Frames Prison Program is to increase literacy rates, reduce recidivism, and use storytelling to empower incarcerated persons with the US prison system.
A reading and tutoring program for incarcerated youth and adults which helps struggling readers in juvenile correction facilities, prisons and other institutions.
This webpage includes recent guidance, communication, and resources related to improving access to HUD programs for people with criminal records and creating housing opportunities for formerly incarcerated people.
VoA's 2017 article entitled Homelessness and Prisoner Reentry: Examining Barriers to Housing Stability and Evidence-Based Strategies That Promote Improved Outcomes explores the barriers individuals face finding stable housing when returning home from incarceration.
BOSS was created to help individuals with severe and persistent mental illness who had become displaced because of public hospital closures. Programs and services expanded over the past five decades to include services for unhoused, disabled, and low-income individuals, families, and neighborhoods in Alameda County.
Career One Stop's Job Search Help for Ex-Offenders program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor, provides tips, information and resources to help individuals with a criminal record search for, apply for, and begin a new job.
A blog post entitled Jobs for Ex-felons in the Tech Industry from self-taught coder Laurence Bradford. The post provides a list of six tech jobs that justice-involved job seekers might pursue, the skills necessary for those jobs, and other resources.
Coordinated by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration, American Job Centers offer training referrals, career counseling, job listings, and other employment-related services.
From the Legal Services for Prisoners with Children organization, a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly-and currently-incarcerated people and their families.
The FICPFM is a national network of civil and human rights organizations led by people with conviction histories and their family members. Their Can I Vote? tool linked above allows justice-involved individuals to determine their voting eligibility online, based on their states' current laws. The tool also provides information on restoring the right to vote.
The nation's first organization for women impacted by incarceration, the WPA focuses on workplace skills, healthcare and housing needs, family reunification, and recidivism avoidance for justice-involved women.
