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April 19, 2013 | Program Result
Better Futures Minnesota provides an integrated package of housing, employment, health care, and community support to men with a history of substance abuse, mental illness, chronic unemployment, incarceration, and homelessness.
April 19, 2013 | Program Result
Formerly incarcerated men, most of them Black, are drawing on the package of housing, employment and support services provided by Better Futures Minnesota in the Twin Cities to help turn their lives around. Some of the men tell their stories here.
June 20, 2012 | Program Result
This initiative provides access to permanent supportive housing for people who have been incarcerated and have a history of mental illness, substance abuse, or both, and have cycled repeatedly through jails, shelters, hospitals, and detox centers.
March 24, 2010 | Program Result
North End Outreach Network in Springfield, Mass., expanded outreach to soon-to-be-released inmates and their families and coordinated access to social and medical services once they returned to the community.
December 4, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers at the Urban Institute analyzed the characteristics and experiences of former prisoners returning from prison to homes in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland and Houston.
July 29, 2009 | Program Result
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison, many with health, substance abuse, economic and family problems that need to be addressed in order for them to become productive, law-abiding members of society.
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
Urban Strategies Council led a coalition to design programs and make recommendations to improve access to health care for formerly incarcerated individuals who have reentered the community.
June 1, 2005 | Program Result
Project staff at the Urban Institute commissioned seven research-based discussion papers by leading experts in the field of public health and prisoner reentry, and sponsored a two-day conference based on issues and findings detailed in the papers.
November 1, 2003 | Program Result
Criminal justice researchers and practitioners, community leaders, former prisoners and policy-makers convened at the Reentry Roundtable to discuss research and policy regarding prisoner reentry and its impact on individuals, families and communities.
December 1, 2003 | Program Result
The Hepatitis C Awareness Project expanded circulation of the Hepatitis C Awareness News and developed a Web site to provide incarcerated adults with information about hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that causes cirrhosis of the liver.