Module 1: Getting Started

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Module 2: Leadership, Vision and Organizational Culture

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Module 4: Data-Driven Understanding of Local Reentry

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Module 5: Targeted Intervention Strategies

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Module 6: Screening and Assessment

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Module 7: Transition Plan Development

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Module 8: Targeted Transition Interventions

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Module 9: Self-Evaluation and Sustainability

Step 2: Identify partnering agencies and interested stakeholders

Identifying partnering agencies and community leaders is a key component to the success of the TJC model. You will find that some will be government agencies, but the majority will probably be agencies providing services at the local level. The long-term goal is for the agencies to form a coordinating reentry council, so including the right agencies and the appropriate agency representative is essential.

The spectrum of your possible collaborators is wide open:

Key stakeholders include:

• Jail administrators or sheriffs
• Police departments
• Community supervision and pretrial services agencies
• The courts, prosecutors, and public defenders
• County executives and local legislators
• City officials
• Treatment and social service providers
• Health and mental health agencies
• Housing, economic development, and workforce development agencies
• Local businesses and corporate entities
• Victim advocates
• The formerly incarcerated and their families
• Community residents
• Faith- and community-based providers
• Veterans Affairs

Partners Don’t forget to include victims’ advocacy groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). Part of the long-term healing process for many victims and their families is knowing that inmates may become productive members of society. They want inmates to be held accountable for their actions when they return home. These groups recognize the importance of providing reentry services to facilitate their successful reintegration. You might be surprised at the level of cooperation you’ll receive from victims’ rights groups. It is also important to include the formerly incarcerated in this process, because they understand firsthand the barriers and problems facing this population. Those involved in this effort should be inmates with a long-standing record of doing well after release and not newly released offenders.

Here is how to start:

Begin by making a list of all the government and nongovernment agencies and community-based organizations your agency presently works with to help transition people from jail to the community.

• In Montgomery County, Maryland, the Department of Labor has set up a One-Stop Center in the jail.  This allows the inmates to get the necessary job search and development skills needed prior to being released from the facility.

Next, identify any other government and nongovernment agencies and community-based organizations that have contacts with the jail population pre- or post-release but which are not formally engaged in the transitional process.

• Police in your community may drop off suspects for processing at the jail’s booking site but may not have any formal collaboration with the jail.

Finally, identify the government and nongovernment agencies and community-based organizations that play a key role in meeting the risks and needs of the returning population but have no connection to the jail.

• The local community health care system often doesn’t have a relationship with the jail.

Field note: Denver Crime Prevention and Control Membership (2011)

Bob Anderson, Denver Public Schools, Prevention and Intervention Initiatives, Director Chris Baumann, Office Of Colorado State Public Defender, Director Lisa Calderon, Community Reentry Project, Director Terrance Carroll, CO House Dist 7, State Rep Lauren Casteel, The Denver Foundation, VP Philanthropic Partnerships Phil Cherner, Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Private Practice Attorney Shawn Cohn, Juvenile Probation, Chief Lauren Croucher, Colo. Organization for Victim Assistance, Trafficking Coordinator Vince DiCroce, City Attorney's Office, Chief Prosecution Unit David Edinger, Mayor's Office, Special Assistant to the Mayor Kara English, Division of Criminal Justice, Training Coordinator Vanessa Fennley, Office Of Drug Strategy, Director Charles Garcia, Defense Attorney, Retired Cheryl Heard, Division of Youth Corrections, Associate Director Robert Hyatt, 2nd Judicial District, Chief Judge Richard Jackson, Metro State College, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Fran Jamison, CO 2nd Judicial District Probation, Chief Nikki Johnson, Victim Services Doug Linkhart, Denver City Council, At-Large Member, Councilman Paul Lopez, Denver City Council, District 3 Deanna Maes, County Court Probation Department, Chief Mary Malatesta, Denver Manager of Safety's Office, Manager John Marcucci, Denver County Court, Presiding Judge Greg Mauro, Community Corrections, Director Jeaneene Miller, CO Division of Adult Parole, Community Correction and YOS, Director Mitch Morrisey, CO 2nd Judicial District, District Attorney John Parvensky, Colorado Coalition for the Homeless, CEO Rod Perry, Pastor and Ministerial Alliance, Chair Margaret Reiland, Denver Sheriff Department, Psychologist Gerry Whitman, Denver Police Department, Chief of Police Gary Wilson, Denver Sheriff Department, Undersheriff

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