On January 23rd, the San Francisco Adult Probation Department released a Request for Proposals to identify a highly qualified non-profit or for-profit entity, or collaboration of such entities, that will establish and operate a Reentry Community Assessment and Service Center (CASC). The requirements of the Local Business Enterprise and Non-Discrimination in Contracting Ordinance set forth in Chapter 14B of the San Francisco Administrative Code apply to this RFP. The RFP is available here. A pre-proposal conference will be held on Thursday February 9th at 1:00 p.m. Proposals are due Wednesday February 29th by 5:00 p.m. For more information, contact Lauren Bell, Reentry Services Manager, Reentry Division, Adult Probation Department at (415) 553-1047 or lauren.bell@sfgov.org.
Be part of Getting Out & Staying Out
The Reentry Council is updating and revamping its popular resource guide Getting Out & Staying Out: A Guide to San Francisco Resources for People Leaving Jails and Prisons, and we need your help! Please take the time to complete the Survey of Services and Programs for People Returning from Jails and Prisons (available in Word and as PDF) and return to us by no later than Friday February 17th at 5:00pm. We will use the information to inform the Reentry Council’s work to identify gaps in service availability for adults returning to San Francisco, and to update the Getting Out & Staying Out guide which is intended for adults who are incarcerated and soon to be released, and also for formerly incarcerated individuals living in San Francisco. Please let us know if you have questions about the survey or suggestions about how we can make this guide even more useful.
New Staff Joins the Reentry Division
The advent of Public Safety Realignment provided the City/County of San Francisco with the opportunity to reassess how to best staff collaborative efforts to meet the needs of people returning from jails and prisons. To that end, City leaders established the Reentry Division of the Adult Probation Department which now directs collaborative efforts to promote policy, operational practices, and supportive services to effectively implement Public Safety Realignment, coordinate reentry services for returning adults, and engage diverse stakeholders in Citywide planning. The Reentry Division provides lead staff for the Reentry Council of San Francisco, as well as the Community Corrections Partnership and its Executive Committee. We are thrilled to welcome Lauren Bell, Reentry Services Manager; Veronica Martinez, Reentry Policy Coordinator; and Leah Rothstein, Research Director as they join Jennifer Scaife, Reentry Resources Coordinator and me here in the Reentry Division of the Adult Probation Department.
Reentry Council seeks interested individuals to serve on WiCAC
The Reentry Council is seeking interested individuals to represent the Reentry Council on the Workforce Investment Community Advisory Committee (WiCAC). Interested individuals must complete a Statement of Interest, which must be received by no later than 5:00pm on Friday February 3rd. Please download a Statement of Interest here or contact me for more information.
Entrepreneurship Class Open Now
Do you have a business idea or are you interested in learning about self-employment? Project ReMade, Reentry: Making a Difference Through Entrepreneurship, is recruiting applicants to participate in a series of free workshops which will provide comprehensive entrepreneurship training, leadership development, and mentoring to women who were released from prison 1-5 years ago. Classes will be held February through May 2012 on the San Francisco State University campus and will be taught by students from the Stanford Law School. An orientation to the program will be held at the San Francisco Public Library at 100 Larkin Street, Sycip Family Conference Room (4thFloor) on Tuesday January 24th 6:00pm-8:00pm. To review or print a flyer for this program, please click here.
Seeking Book Donations
The Reentry Division of the Adult Probation Department is seeking book donations to distribute to people on community supervision in San Francisco. We’re looking for a wide variety of gently used books, including: nonfiction (exercise, travel, parenting, history, biographies, etc.); fiction (novels, bestsellers, mysteries, etc.); children’s books (all ages); and poetry. Please, no magazines or textbooks. If you have books you’d like to donate to help promote literacy among people served by the Adult Probation Department, please contact Jennifer Scaife, Reentry Resources Coordinator, at reentry.council@sfgov.org or (415) 558-2406.
Change to SF Parole Office and PACT Meeting Location
The SF 4 Parole Office has closed. PACT Meetings continue to be held weekly on Tuesdays at 10:00am, and are now held at the San Francisco Parole offices at 1727 Mission Street (at 13th and Duboce).
Request for Proposals (RFP) to provide Child Welfare Services to incarcerated parents
The San Francisco Human Services Agency announces its intent to seek proposals from agencies, organizations, and/or qualified individuals interested in providing Child Welfare Services to incarcerated parents and legal guardians who have open Child Welfare cases. The purpose of this service is to provide emergency interviewing of incarcerated parents regarding family and other child placement resources and to provide reunification jail visits, jail/prison case management, coordination with child’s worker, and development of post incarceration plans. The RFP will be released on January 5th. The pre-bid conference will be held on January 10th at 9:30am. Proposals will be due February 6th. For more information, see bid #497 at http://mission.sfgov.org/OCABidPublication/ or contact Johanna Gendelman for more information at (415) 557-5162 or Johanna.Gendelman@sfgov.org.
Funding available for Permanent Supportive Housing
The Corporation for Supportive Housing has released an RFP (Request for Proposals) for its Social Innovation Fund in order to support models of supportive housing connected to coordinated health services for vulnerable people who are high users of emergency health services and are homeless. Applicants must be 501(c)3 organizations. CSH is hosting a bidder’s webinar on December 8th. Interested organizations may read here for more information or to register.
Positions available at Community Works
Community Works is hiring for two Coordinators and an Agreements Manager for the Community Works Community Conferencing project, recently funded by the CDCR to implement and evaluate a new initiative in Oakland, aiming to divert at least 95 youth annually from the juvenile justice system. Applications are due before January 4th; see links for more information.