Finding your first job can be challenging. However, entering or re-entering the workforce after spending time in the justice system as a young person is even more difficult. Studies show that successful transition into the workforce is a positive step for both individuals and communities.
There are many organizations, programs, and resources available to assist in this process. WorkforceGPS has two communities — YouthConnections and Reentry Employment Opportunities that focus on these type of programs and resources. We have also collected on this resource page numerous resources, policies, webinars and organizations that are available to assist you in providing these important services to youth and young adults coming out of the justice system and succeeding in the workplace.
Relevant WorkforceGPS Communities
Resources
- Clean Slate Clearinghouse
- Collaborating for Successful Reentry
- Federal Bonding Program
- Foster, Juvenile Justice, and Crossover Youth
- Helping Youth with Juvenile Records
- Implementation and Sustainability of Juvenile Reentry Programs in Second Chance Act Sites
- Improving Outcomes for Transitional Youth – Considerations for Pay for Success Projects
- Juvenile Justice Reentry Education Program
- Reentry Starts Here
- Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) Fact Sheet
- Supporting Pathways to Long-Term Success for Systems-Involved Youth: Lessons Learned
- Supporting the Educational and Career Success of Justice-Involved Youth under WIOA
- The First Step Act
Webinars
- #Pathways2Success for Systems-Involved Youth
- How Juvenile Records Can Affect you Even after the Case is over
Organizations
- Center for Juvenile Justice Reform
- Coalition for Juvenile Justice
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- Reentry - Youth
- The National Reentry Resource Center
Innovations in Action
- Crossover Youth Practice Model (CYPM)
- iFoster
- Models for Change
- Pennsylvania Academic and Career/Technical Training Alliance (PACTT)
