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SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYMENT

PRISON DOORS OPEN

BOTH WAYS...

In NYC, neighborhoods that are home to 18% of the population account for more than 50% of prison admissions each year.

50% of people on parole who return to Manhattan, return to UPPER MANHATTAN.

In a 7 block area of east Harlem 1 in 20 males have been to prison.

Improves Public Safety

Good For Business

Protects Employers from Lawsuits

We Have a Moral Obligation to Help People Transform Their Lives

89% of offenders who are rearrested are unemployed at the time of their arrest.Your community/business is SAFER when ex-offenders:

Have a legitimate form of work

Can support themselves and their families

Have good self-esteem and hope about their futures

As a reentry program with significant experience in preparing individuals with convictions for employment:

We will assist you in posting your job advertisement on our easily accessible database.

We will then save you time and money by screening for QUALIFIED and HIGHLY MOTIVATED applicants.

We will ensure applicants have access to on-going job skills training that will decrease the costs associated with employee turnover.

95% of all prisoners are released eventually.

Nationally, 700,000 people return home from prison each year.

THE IMPACT OF REENTRY IS SHOULDERED BY SELECT COMMUNITIES...

For every individual returning home there is a circle of people directly affected by their imprisonment. Nationally 1 in 28 children have a parent behind bars. 1 in 9 African-American children have an incarcerated parent.

INCARCERATION NATION

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With only 5% of the world’s population, the US has 25% of the world’s prison population. 1 in 4 of the nation’s adult population has a criminal record.

WE ARE HERE TO SUPPORT YOUR SECOND CHANCE PARTICIPATION

WHY BECOME A SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYER?

EMPLOYERS BENEFIT FROM HIRING

INDIVIDUALS WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD...

Department of Labor offers major financial incentives for employers!

Federal Bonding Program--Protects from losses due to employee dishonesty or neglect. Provides $5,000-$25,000 bond insurance for the first 6 months of employment. http://www.bonds4jobs.com/

Work Opportunity Tax Credit--$2400 per individual convicted of a felony and hired within one year after the date of conviction or release from prison. http://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/

PROMOTES PUBLIC SAFETY

They want you to follow the law, but won’t give you a second chance. How can you be a law abiding citizen without getting housing, employment, and providing for your family? If you can’t get a job, the streets talk to you. You return to your old ways.

Formerly Incarcerated Individual, Reentry Associate, HCJC

Research tells us that employment is a strong predictor of whether an individual does or does not recidivate!

43% of prisoners nationally return within 3 years.

SECOND CHANCE EMPLOYERS FOLLOW THE LAW....

NY law prohibits blanket discrimination against persons with a criminal record.

Employers can ONLY consider a criminal record when it is reasonably related to the job or the individual poses a REAL risk to public safety.

The law requires employers to provide applicants a fair review, taking into consideration factors such as demonstrated rehabilitation.

"INVISIBLE

PUNISHMENTS"

Upon release ex-offenders face

a host of problems:

Finding Housing

Obtaining Stable Employment

Rebuilding Family Relationships

Avoiding Negative Influences

Post-Traumatic Stress

Social Stigma

Federal and state Law Create Civil Penalties:

Ineligibility for Public Housing

and Public Housing

Students Loans

Various Employment

Felon Disenfranchisement

With more than 2.2. million people behind bars the US incarcerates 6 to 10 times more people than most other developed countries.

HIRING INDIVIDUALS WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS

How would you like to be judged for the rest of your life by the worst thing you have ever done?

What would people label you?

We never fully know who individuals are destined to be unless we give them the

full opportunity to rise to their potential.