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.– 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.

• 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

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1 in 100

• 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

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1 in 31

After sharp increases in the 1980s and 1990s, the incarceration rate has recently grown at a slower pace.

The Criminal Justice System Today

• 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

Offender Reentry

• Definition-any problem or obstacle, real or perceived, to reaching a goal

Barriers to Reentry and Employment