Chicago's Safer Foundation [microform] : A Road Back for Ex-Offenders. Program Focus / Peter Finn
- Bib ID:
- 5677967
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Finn, Peter
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED450237
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 20 p.
- Summary:
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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)
- Notes:
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- Availability: For full text: http://ncjrs.org/pdffiles/167575.pdf.
- Contract Number: OJP-94-C-007.
- ERIC Note: Project Monitor: Marilyn Moses.
- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- 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)
- Parolees
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1998
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