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Charles P. Chen; Naseem Rine-Reesha – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2024
Ex-offenders in North America and Western Europe face major challenges when re-entering the job market and often remain unemployed for significant periods. Simultaneously, the relatively sparse existent literature regarding career counselling for ex-offenders often fails to incorporate recent research from other relevant fields. This article aims…
Descriptors: Criminals, Barriers, Reentry Workers, Employment Level
Advance CTE: State Leaders Connecting Learning to Work, 2023
Career Technical Education (CTE) calls upon states to lead with an equity lens, which requires vigilance to quality expectations while also ensuring that CTE programs and interventions intentionally meet the needs of learners with the greatest need, including justice-involved learners--the human-centered term that refers to a person who has…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Juvenile Justice, Institutionalized Persons, Youth
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Ochoa, Theresa A.; Maki Weller, Nicole; Fordham, Tyeisha T. – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
The Second Chance Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act encourage juvenile justice personnel to collaborate with not-for-profit organizations, employers, and community schools to provide incarcerated girls with disabilities transition support to reenter their community after incarceration. The "Career and College…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Equal Education
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de Mezerville-López, Claire M.; Ochoa, Theresa A.; Ovares-Fernández, Yanúa; Ureña-Salazar, Viria – Intervention in School and Clinic, 2023
This article describes the process of reentry for adolescent girls and young women who experienced incarceration as adolescents in Costa Rica. The needs of adolescent girls and young women with undiagnosed and psychosocial disabilities are explored, considering existing scholarship and research gaps from Costa Rica's legislation and policies.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Young Adults, Females
Loprest, Pamela; Spaulding, Shayne; Hecker, Ian – Urban Institute, 2020
This resource outlines a menu of actionable strategies for local leaders for workforce-related recovery efforts in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and corresponding recession. These strategies focus on evidence-based interventions and approaches which promote inclusive recovery. We categorize these strategies by goal, type of action, and phase…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, COVID-19, Pandemics, Economic Climate
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Linton, John – Journal of Correctional Education, 2004
In this update, Linton reports on Congressional filing of a number of bills that involve the topic of prisoner reentry. In addition, he presents a key section of Attorney General John Ashcroft's address (Cleveland, Ohio, September 2004) on prisoner reentry. In this speech, Ashcroft called for a concerted effort to managing a balanced approach:…
Descriptors: Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Education, Adult Education, Reentry Workers