Topics Related to Rehabilitation and Reentry
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction and WakeMed Health & Hospitals have successfully concluded their pioneering pilot partnership to train potential prison chaplains through WakeMed’s Clinical Pastoral Education program.
People in the state prison system are provided many opportunities for improving education and job skills during their incarceration. Taking advantage of those opportunities leads to second chances.
For Samuel Hutchins and Arkeem Shields, their second chances came with the assistance of the Pathway Home 5 Program – part of the Opportunities Industrialization Center in Rocky Mount.
The most important item a person needs when leaving prison is some form of identification. It can be a state-issued ID or a driver license, both of which are required for just about every task imaginable, including opening a bank account, securing housing, and getting a job.
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction and WakeMed Health & Hospitals have entered a first-in-the-nation pilot partnership to train potential prison chaplains through the health system's CPE program. .
The North Carolina Department of Adult Correction has announced North Carolina is the first state to develop a dashboard to track progress made toward objectives, strategies, and metrics established in its Reentry 2030 Strategic Plan.
The quarterly meeting of the State Reentry Council Collaborative will be held at the N.C. Museum of Art from 9:30-11:30 a.m.
WHAT: Bi-monthly meeting of the North Carolina Joint Reentry Council to coordinate efforts in improving rehabilitation and reentry of offenders returning to their communities after incarceration.
WHEN: Thursday, July 24, 10 a.m. – Noon
WHERE: Greg Poole, Jr. All Faiths Chapel (Dorothea Dix Park), 1030 Richardson Drive, Raleigh, NC 27603
WHO: Council members, honored guests, speakers and a chance for public comment
AGENDA
For the first time, medium custody offenders not only participated in a reentry simulation but also served as volunteers providing information at Maury Correctional Institution.
Thanks to a partnership between the N.C. Department of Adult Correction, The Duke Endowment, and the North Carolina and Western North Carolina conferences of the United Methodist Church, four community-funded chaplains will be placed in state prisons across the state.