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Office of Reentry Program

Hamilton County Re-entry Program

I want to update you on the Hamilton County Office of Reentry's progress in facilitating the development of a Community Reentry Action Plan and obtain your participation in several areas, if you have not already made a commitment to help. The Community Reentry Action Plan will provide a more focused approach to reentry activities in Hamilton County; removing barriers and helping to support successful reentry. The plan will be completed and released the morning of June 20, 2012, so please mark your calendars. We have accomplished much, but more work lies ahead.

We completed our second large community planning meeting on January 18, 2012. We had outstanding suggestions on target population, vision, and guiding principles. Our seven workgroups met for the first time and began their discussion on strategies. Over the next couple of months, these workgroups will be meeting to finalize recommendations. Please lend your knowledge and expertise by joining at least one of the following workgroups:

• Basic Needs - To develop strategies to address the basic needs of individuals returning to the community from incarceration (including housing).
• Workforce & Business Development - To develop strategies to address the immediate and on-going employment needs of individuals returning to the community from incarceration.
• Community Awareness & Training - To develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the stigma that follows those that have been incarcerated.
• Family & Community Support - To develop strategies to reunite families, when appropriate; and to develop strategies that provide a full range of evidence-based interventions that address underlying issues that contribute to further involvement in the criminal justice system (such as mental health, substance abuse, health, and criminal thinking).
• Policy Development & Advocacy - To develop strategies to eliminate/change laws, regulations, and policies that result in collateral sanctions or barriers to successful reentry.
• Data & Evaluation - To gather information that informs the planning process and to develop strategies that support on-going data collection and evaluation needed to document progress.
• Sustainability - To develop strategies to sustain and expand upon all components of the reentry action plan.

• Reentry Workgroup meeting schedule
• Reentry Workgroup Charges