| 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. |
 |
U.S. Conference of Mayors It's been a busy summer for the REENTRY National Media Outreach Campaign! Numerous events and local activities have been occurring with a cadre of national partners and project participants.
The preview video will have a new audience at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Annual Legislative Conference, September 8 - 11. Outreach Extensions will participate in one of the conference's braintrusts on reentry. The full clergy training video will be available for wide distribution in 2005. The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign was represented by grantee Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) at the 90th Annual Hampton Ministers' Conference in June. For decades, African-American clergy from across the nation have reserved the first week of June for a time of respite and renewal in Hampton, Virginia near the Chesapeake Bay. Now, more than 8,000 clergy convene for workshops and general sessions ranging from Developing Instrumental Music in Church Worship to Using the Media and Technology in Ministry. ITC distributed 100 Outside the Walls videotapes and 1,000 Reentry Campaign flyers to clergy attending this prestigious event, enabling them to see an overview of the Reentry campaign and access specific media resources to assist them in their reentry ministries. Outreach Extensions will add the names of clergy who received the OTW videotape to the Reentry e-newsletter database. Outreach Extensions
provided 500 copies of the Outside the Walls videotape, along
with flyers providing an overview of the Reentry campaign at
the American Parole and Probation Association's (APPA)
29th annual training conference, July 25 - 28, in Orlando. The
American Probation and Parole Association is an international
association composed of individuals from the United States and
Canada actively involved with probation, parole and community-based
corrections, in both adult and juvenile sectors. All levels of
government including local, state/provincial, legislative, executive,
judicial, and federal agencies are counted among its constituents.
By taking the initiative, APPA has grown to become the voice
for thousands of probation and parole practitioners including
line staff, supervisors and administrators. Educators, volunteers
and concerned citizens with an interest in criminal and juvenile
justice are also among APPA's members. APPA will continue to
effectively provide services to its constituents. The association
represents a strong, unified voice for the field of community
corrections. The Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign was
introduced to APPA's
4500 members on June 22, 2004 through its
quarterly electronic newsletter. Information
Officer, Karen Fuller, included information
on resources available through the Reentry
Campaign. |
The video
will contain orientation and training content related to five
of these modules, indicated above by an asterisk. An eight-minute
preview of the training video was premiered at
NABCJ's annual
training conference in Jacksonville, July 18 - 21, 2004. Outreach
Extensions' REENTRY
Campaign Director, Denise Blake, presented the preview
video at two sessions during the conference. The first was an
awards program for Jacksonville's Ready4Work program, a mentoring
and job training program for recently released men and women.
The video was also presented during the conference's national
prayer breakfast.