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• 2 in 5 prison and jail inmates lack a high school diploma or its equivalent.
• Employment rates and earnings histories of people in prisons and jails are often low before incarceration
• Large, three-state recidivism study found that
less than half of released prisoners had secured a job upon their return to the community (The Council of State Governments Justice Center website, n.d.).
Previous methods used in Career Center with offenders
• Give packet of info & list of employers who hire
• Limited employment opportunities—during high unemployment, offenders last to be hired
New Ways of Thinking & Best Practices
• Simply placing into employment not silver bullet for reducing criminal behavior• Must address antisocial attitudes and
beliefs associated with crime• 8 criminogenic factors identified in
research• Gender specific factors for females
Risk Screeners and Assessments
• Transition Application• Alcohol screeners• Substance Abuse Screeners• Mental Health Screeners• Proxy Triage—current age, age
at first arrest, number of prior offenses
Interventions
• Screeners identify level of risk• Intervention for each risk factor• Cognitive Behavior Strategies
• Thinking for Change• Parenting classes• Relationship counseling• Testing for learning disabilities• High School Equivalency Prep
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMD0XtQqfkg
Interventions & Strategies
• Self-Efficacy—Enhances clients’ belief to achieve results (“I think I can”)
• Motivational Interviewing (M.I.)• Emphasizes client’s role in
change• Evokes change talk
Interventions & Strategies
• Self-Efficacy—Enhances clients’ belief to achieve results (“I think I can”)
• Movie The Help (You is kind, you is smart, you is important)– (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H50llsHm3k)
• Motivational Interviewing (M.I.)• Emphasizes client’s role in
change• Evokes change talk
Sample Motivational Interviewing Questions
1. What would you like to see change in your life?
2. On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 the worst & 10 the best), where are you with that change?
3. Why are you at 3 instead of 2?4. So you are at 3? What would you
have to do to get to 4?
M.I. and Solution-focused techniques
• One small change• Coping questions• Exception questions• Miracle questions• Task Assignments
More Interventions
• Positive Psychology
• Parenting classes
• Family/relationship counseling
• Leisure—Chess, serving others
• Celebrate Recovery, A.A.,N.A.
Helping Offenders with Job Search—3 most important things
1. Help them in filling out application & explaining offense
2. Letter of explanation
3. Help them in explaining offense in interview
Tools to Use with Employers
• EEO Policies• WOTC• Federal Bonding• Certificate of Employability• On the Job Training• Work Release
Referenceshttp://csgjusticecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Final.Reentry-and-Employment.pp_.pdf
http://www1.eeoc.gov//laws/guidance/qa_arrest_conviction.cfm?renderforprint=1
http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1109&GA=108
http://www.integration.samhsa.gov/clinical-practice/sbirt/NIAAA_3_question_Screen.pdf
Motivational Interviewing: http://www.nova.edu/gsc/forms/mi_rationale_techniques.pdf
Thinking for Change online curriculum: http://static.nicic.gov/Library/025057/default.html
Contact Info:[email protected]