| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign offers media tools and resources to support informed discussion, decision making, and action about solution-based reentry programs that foster public safety and support healthy communities. We encourage you to review the diverse materials and consider how you may be able to use them effectively. |
| The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign acts as a catalyst to encourage solution-based reentry activities. Review this chronicle of public television and community events/actions to gain ideas on what may work in your arena. |
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GOD AND THE INNER CITY Orientation Meeting The REENTRY National Media Outreach Campaign was
also introduced at an orientation meeting for local stakeholders
in Baltimore
on June 26, 2003. Outreach Extensions partnered with Manifold The meeting was fortunate to be joined in leadership by Rev. Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr., director of the Amachi Mentoring Program, and Rev. Mark Scott, executive director of FASTEN (Faith and Service Technical Education Network) and former staff member at the National Ten Point Coalition, both profiled in GOD IN THE INNER CITY. Both gentlemen will help facilitate discussion and action planning in the local sites around the subject of mentoring and faith/secular collaborations. Outreach Extensions will attend local forums in the six Making Connections sites, where local attendees will be introduced to the REENTRY National Media Outreach Campaign, and outline the resources and technical assistance available to them as separate secular and faith organizations, and in conjunction with their local public television stations. The facilitator’s orientation meeting created a wonderful platform for the introduction of the issues surrounding REENTRY. Several sites have already indicated their interest in participating in the REENTRY campaign. Miami, for example, represented by Samaki Variety, community liaison from the Office of Mayor Manny Diaz, has already received four videotapes from the REENTRY pipeline, and is working with Outreach Extensions to develop a slate of local activities for Miami-Dade clergy and community groups. |
Productions
to create a local implementation strategy for activity related
to GOD AND THE INNER CITY, the first of the Reentry pipeline
documentaries to air on public television. All ten local implementation
sites
were represented (Atlanta, Baltimore, Charlotte, Indianapolis,
Los Angeles, Miami, Milwaukee, New York [Brooklyn], Pittsburgh,
and Washington, DC), -- seven of them by Big Brothers Big Sisters
(BBBS) leadership, one by a local Ten Point Coalition, one by
a local leadership foundation, and one by a mayoral office.
In total,
24 people attended the meeting, including local outreach site
representatives, presenters, and resource persons.