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COMMUNITY RE-ENTRY (OH)
Program Description The Community Re-Entry Program was an outgrowth of the Lutheran Metropolitan Ministry, which was formed by the Association of Lutheran Pastors of Greater Cleveland in response to the urban unrest of the 1960s. Community Re-Entry was formed in 1971 from this movement with the purpose of providing outreach, support, and advocacy services to individuals who were formerly incarcerated in order to facilitate their successful return to the community. Re-Entry staff include a number of former prisoners (30 full-time and 50 part-time). Professional social workers provide the services. Re-Entry provides a range of services to male and female clients who are in prison, have been recently released, or have been incarcerated in the past. Services are delivered through 14 different programs addressing a number of needs and challenges facing Re-Entry clients. The Young African American Reclamation Project began in 1990 and focuses on services for African-American men between the ages of 19 and 29. The program, which has a deliberate focus on the economic and racial implications of incarceration and reentry, offers life skills training, group sessions, conflict mediation, and case management. A staff of former prisoners provides most of the services. The goal of the program is to break the familial cycles of poverty, imprisonment, and welfare. The program attempts to meet this goal by improving participants' employment status, financial earning potential, social skills, and coping mechanisms to enable them to become better partners, family members, and fathers. The hope is that by improving the life of young adult African-American family members, they will thereby improve their children's chances of being successful, independent of public support, and free from involvement in the criminal justice system.
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