Chicago's Safer Foundation: A Road Back for Ex-Offenders. Program Focus.

Autor/in	Finn, Peter
Institution	Department of Justice, Washington, DC. National Inst. of Justice.; Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Office of Correctional Education.; National Inst. of Corrections (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC.
Titel	Chicago's Safer Foundation: A Road Back for Ex-Offenders. Program Focus.
Quelle	(1998), (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Agency Cooperation; Attitude Change; Caseworker Approach; Community Organizations; Community Programs; Cooperative Planning; Correctional Education; Correctional Rehabilitation; Daily Living Skills; Delivery Systems; Education Work Relationship; Employment Potential; Employment Services; Government School Relationship; Guidelines; Job Placement; Job Training; Models; Outcomes of Education; Outreach Programs; Partnerships in Education; Peer Counseling; Philanthropic Foundations; Prevocational Education; Prisoners; Private Schools; Private Sector; Problem Solving; Program Effectiveness; Program Evaluation; Public Sector; Recidivism; Small Group Instruction; Social Support Groups; Transitional Programs; Vocational Adjustment; Vocational Rehabilitation; Work Attitudes; Illinois (Chicago) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Attitudinal change; Einstellungsänderung; Fürsorgeerziehung; Alltagsfertigkeit; Auslieferung; Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Employment service; Arbeitsvermittlung; Richtlinien; Employment services; Berufsqualifizierender Bildungsgang; Analogiemodell; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Jobcoaching; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Philanthropismus; Enterprise education; Vorberufliche Bildung; Prisoner; Gefangener; Private school; Privatschule; Privater Sektor; Problemlösen; Programme evaluation; Programmevaluation; Öffentlicher Sektor; Rückfall; Social support; Soziale Unterstützung; Personalanpassung; Berufliche Rehabilitation; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	The Safer Foundation in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest community-based provider of employment services for ex-offenders in the United States. Established in 1972, Safer has a professional staff of nearly 200 in 6 locations. Safer runs a private school, called the PACE (Programmed Activities for Correctional Education) Institute, at the Cook County Jail, and it operates a work-release center that provides extensive educational and employment readiness programming. Safer also uses a small-group, peer-based approach in its basic education skills program to help participants overcome the barriers to learning commonly faced by ex-offenders. Special case managers, called lifeguards, are available to help clients address transitional problems for 1 year after they have secured employment. Of the nearly 1,102 clients who received job placement assistance from the Safer Foundation in 1996, 60% were still employed after 20 days. Of the 72 participants who completed the Safer Foundation's basic education course for ex-offenders aged 16-21 years, more than two-thirds entered school, vocational training, or employment. After 180 days, 58% of those individuals were still in their placements and only 1 had been convicted of a new crime. (Seven contact persons and three World Wide Web sources of additional information are listed.) (MN)
Anmerkungen	For full text: http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles/167575.pdf.
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC