Resource Guides are here

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 30th, 2010

The 2010/11 edition of the Getting Out & Staying Out Resource Guide is here!

Thank you to all for ongoing improvements to this guide that we have worked together to create and improve since fall 2007. The new edition is now available on the Reentry Council website at http://sfreentry.com/resource-guide for download. Please post this link on any relevant websites that individuals, family members, or service providers may use. This link always contains the most recent version of the resource guide available. Please freely download, print, and distribute the guide online.

We have a supply of hard copy guides that are bound, with color cover, and tabs marking chapter breaks. These hard copies are intended for people who are currently incarcerated, recently released, homeless, or otherwise without easy access to a computer and printer. Please email reentry.council@sfgov.org to let us know how many guides you or your organization would like to have to distribute to adults returning to San Francisco from jails or prisons. Please be sure to let us know how many guides, and to whom/where you plan on distributing them. We will be in touch to make arrangement as soon as possible. Thank you! And, as always, email us corrections or other improvements to the guide.

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Call for Entries into Reentry Programs Database

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 30th, 2010

The Council of State Governments Justice Center has launched an online Reentry Programs Database which is designed to catalogue adult and juvenile programs nationwide that work to make individuals’ return to communities from prisons, jails, and juvenile corrections facilities safer and more successful. All programs–from the smallest to the largest, both community-based and corrections-run–are requested for inclusion. Enter your program’s information by going here.

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Back on Track Graduation – Office of the SF District Attorney, Goodwill Industries, New American Media, & Family Service Agency

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 22nd, 2010

Celebrate the graduates of Back on Track. All are welcome to attend. For more information, contact Lauren Bell at lauren.bell@sfgov.org or (415) 553-4919.

8th Annual In the Trenches Award Ceremony – Bayview Hunters Point Multi-Purpose Senior Center & Senior Ex-Offender Program

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 10th, 2010

An award ceremony to honor and recognize community leaders who are making a difference in the lives of people who are formerly incarcerated, their families, and communities. Sponsorships requested, program ads, and tickets on sale. For more information, contact Jewell Bell or Lisa Wynn at (415) 822-1444. To download a flier for distribution, click SEOP In the Trenches Event Flier.

Subcommittee on Health & Well Being Meeting-POSTPONED

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 7th, 2010

Our next meeting will be August 11th, 2010.

Drug Policy Alliance Discussion on Vancouver Drug Policy

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 7th, 2010

Lunchtime discussion moderated by Barry Zevin, MD about Vancouver’s drug policies, some of the most innovative and effective responses in North America. Join Donald MacPherson, former Drug Policy Coordinator for Vancouver, and Eugenia Oviedo-Joeke, lead researcher with the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI). Casual lunch will be provided. RSVP to sf@drugpolicy.org or (415) 241-9800.

Reentry Council Staff Transitions

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 6th, 2010

Reentry Council Staff Transitions Michael Klinger, who has served as intern and Associate of Reentry Council, provided outstanding administrative and programmatic support to the Reentry Council over the past year. He is moving on to his next adventure as he enters law school this fall. Thank you Michael for your wonderful contributions to this community wide effort! I am pleased to announce that Jennifer Scaife will start next week as Reentry Council Associate. Since 2006, Jennifer has been the Program Director of the Prison University Project, a nonprofit organization which supports the College Program at San Quentin State Prison. In that capacity, she has coordinated the day to day operations of the only on-site, degree-granting higher education program in California’s prison system, and initiated several literary and public education projects aimed at highlighting the humanity of people in prison. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and recently taught a series of creative writing classes as an artist-in-residence at the juvenile hall in Contra Costa County. Jennifer will join Jessica Flintoft, Reentry Policy Director and Jeaneane Young, Reentry Council Assistant as primary Reentry Council staff working out of the Office of the Public Defender. Welcome Jennifer!

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Subcommittee on Families, Victims, & Communities Meeting

Posted by Jessica Flintoft • July 1st, 2010

This meeting will be held at Citywide Case Management, 982 Mission Street, San Francisco.