1. Franklin County Reentry Coalition
July 7, 2016
Next Steps

2. Coalition Overview Grant funding approved
Organizational meeting started in May 2015
Strategic Planning began in July 2015
Subcommittees formed to completed specific tasks
Resource Guide created
Mission and vision statement created and approved
Data collected
Education of the public through Reentry Summit
Advisory Board created
RFP for Coalition Director

3. Reentry Summit Approximately 170 people attended
Feedback forms reported high level of satisfaction
Speakers
Reentry Panel
Networking
Breakout sessions
Closing
Facility
Feedback is recorded and available for review
All individuals requesting information contacted

5. Strategic Plan Action Items
Four Categories
Education
Support
Increase Capacity
Advocate for Change

6. Strategic Plan Action Items
EDUCATION
Create an awareness/education plan for the county, including plans for media.
Educate employers about reentry and hiring individuals with criminal backgrounds.

7. Strategic Plan Action Items
SUPPORT
Identify all existing community resources and create a Reentry Resource Guide available in print and digital formats.
Identify inmate needs prior to release and craft individual release plan, providing the inmate with a resource directory and packet of materials. Offer guidance on how to connect with resources.
Develop a reentry discharge planning team and/or follow up team to work with people before and after release.

8. Strategic Plan Action Items
INCREASE CAPACITY
Complete a housing inventory to ensure affordable housing is available to returning citizens and craft a comprehensive housing plan for reentry.
Commit to keeping formerly incarcerated people involved in Reentry Coalition meetings and include on committee work.

9. Strategic Plan Action Items
ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE
Examine reentry processes and protocols, looking for opportunities to enhance or develop better processes and remove process barriers.

10. Action Plan to Task Forces
Education
Support
Increase Capacity
Advocate for Change
Education
Case Review
Healing Communities Implementation
Intercept

11. Task Force: Education Purpose
Inform public (Employers, landlords, community service providers, & Faith Community) regarding issues of reentry to increase the knowledge of the needs of exoffenders returning to the community.
Reentry Resource Guide update and review
Members
Individuals, organizations, and service providers
Tasks
Identify groups to educate on reentry issues
Provide trainings or reach out to entities to personally explain reentry concerns
Create comprehensive plan for disseminating this information as well as deciding how it will be presented

12. Task Force: Healing Communities Implementation
Purpose
Establish Healing Communities within the Faith Community.
Members
Individuals within the Faith Community or interested in this project
Tasks
Identify interested Churches or Faith Groups
Organize trainings
Oversee implementation

13. Task Force: Case Review
Purpose
To problem solve individual needs and create systemic change
 Members
Health service entities, such as mental health and D&A providers, service providers, such as employers, housing, and transportation, as well as representatives from the criminal justice and county government systems
Tasks
Review individual reentry cases through SWOT analysis (Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats)

14. Task Force: Intercept Purpose
To identify barriers and gaps in the current system
 Members
Representatives from each service sector in the community and extend the full spectrum of the system
Tasks
Follow Sequential Intercept Model to identify needs and use information to create other task forces to eliminate or improve those issues

15. Task Force Leaders Education – Jon Raber Case Review – Michelle Weller
Healing Communities Implementation – Rev. Jeff Diller
Intercept – Carrie Gray