Getting Out & Staying Out: A Guide to San Francisco Resources for People Leaving Jails and Prisons.
This comprehensive resource guide was created by the Access to Resources Working Group, a collaboration of the Safe Communities Reentry Council and the San Francisco Reentry Council, to help recently released individuals navigate San Francisco’s public benefits, housing, health and employment service programs.
This is the 2008/2009 edition of the guide, 2nd Printing.
The full guide is a large document. If you have a slower internet connection, you may want to download the Guide in sections. See below.
Please download, copy, and distribute this Guide as widely as you wish to support the successful reentry of people returning from prisons and jails. Please download, copy, and distribute this Guide as widely as you wish to support the successful reentry of people returning from prisons and jails. To order hard copies of Getting Out & Staying Out, please contact reentry.council@sfgov.org or call (415) 553-1593.
2ndprinting2ndedition0809resourceguide (4.3 mb pdf)
The resource guide is also available divided into the following sections:
Getting Out & Staying Out part 0: Cover and Contents (181 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 1: First Things First (431 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 2: Probation & Parole (72 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 3: Identification & Benefits (852 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 4: Finances (121 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 5: Legal (115 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 6: Housing (571 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 7: Education & Employment (482 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 8: Information & Services (196 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 9: Wellness (1,417 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out part 10: Families & Children (102 kb pdf)
Getting Out & Staying Out Back Cover (662 kb pdf)