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Coaching Packets for Prisoner Reentry Initiative Grantees: Engaging Offenders' Families in Reentry

New research is emerging that demonstrates that strategies targeting stronger relationships between offenders and their families correlate with better offender outcomes. For this reason, corrections agencies and their partners are becoming increasingly interested in the role families can play in promoting successful reentry. This Coaching Packet addresses a key area in the formula for offender success: identifying and building upon offenders’ pro-social supports from families and other social networks.

Available online

http://www.cepp.com/

Author(s)

Margaret DiZerega

Date

2010

Publisher

Center for Effective Public Policy