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Job Coaching for Offender Populations

Job Coaching for Offender Populations. Helping tax takers become tax makers. The goal of this workshop . Is to help: Intensive service providers with the task of helping ex-offenders gain meaningful employment opportunities.

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Job Coaching for Offender Populations

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  1. Job Coaching for Offender Populations Helping tax takers become tax makers

  2. The goal of this workshop • Is to help: • Intensive service providers with the task of helping ex-offenders gain meaningful employment opportunities. • Intensive service providers explain the barriers facing ex-offender job seekers. • Intensive service providers develop a transition process for recently released ex-offenders. • Business service unit staff easily explain the recent EEOC policy regarding the hiring of ex-offenders.

  3. 1 in 100 • In 2008, 1 in every 99.1 adults was behind bars in America • More than 1.5 million were in state or federal prisons • More than 700,00 were in local jails http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/topic_category.aspx?category=528

  4. 1 in 31 • In addition, over 4.2 million were on probation • Over 800,000 were on parole • In total, over 7.3 million adults were under some form of correctional control, a ratio of 1 in 31 http://www.pewcenteronthestates.org/topic_category.aspx?category=528

  5. The Criminal Justice System Today After sharp increases in the 1980s and 1990s, the incarceration rate has recently grown at a slower pace.

  6. Offender Reentry • Annually, approximately 750,000 are released from state and federal prisons • Over 9 million are released from local jails • 95% of all offenders will return to their communities

  7. Barriers to Reentry and Employment • Definition-any problem or obstacle, real or perceived, to reaching a goal

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