On March 10, 2010, WUNC's "The State of Things" aired a program about prisoner re-entry. There are more than 40,000 prisoners inside North Carolina’s correctional facilities. Every year close to half of them are released into probation or parole. And while the infrastructure of incarceration is long standing and sturdy, the systems for ensuring a successful transition from prison to citizen are relatively new and arguably unsupported. The program discusses the obstacles to re-entry with: Christy Visher, professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware; Mark McDaniel, senior research associate at the Center for Community Capital at UNC-Chapel Hill; Tony Reggi, correctional planner with the N.C. Department of Corrections; Bob Crouch from the Executive Steering Committee of NCREAP; Cynthia Laws Davis, the program director of Passage Home in Raleigh; and Elizabeth Jaime, a graduate of Harriet’s House, …
On April 2, 2009, LaKasha Fredlaw of Wake Co. Human Services provided a training for caseworkers on life skills and money management. Presentations and Handouts: "Money Matters" PowerPoint presentation: view pdf "To Your Credit" PowerPoint presentation: view pdf "Ready to Rent" PowerPoint presentation: view pdf Life Skills Budget Sheet: view Excel doc Monthly Expenses (Budgeted vs. Actual) Worksheet: view pdf NAEH's Step-by-Step Guide to Better Life Management: view pdf Other Information: FDIC: Money Smart Education Program website Casey Life Skills website Ready to Rent - address inquiries to: Ready to Rent c/o Say That!, LLC 16055 SW Walker Rd. #444 Beaverton, OR 97006 503-891-0476 info@readytorent.org
Noel Edwards was homeless and staying at Good Shepherd Center when Sharron Cain found her. Shameeka Winfield was struggling with the effects of having a criminal record, the result of a mistake she made years ago. Both will graduate Friday from the fall classes of Project Uplift Career Pathways Academy, a training program for adults of low to moderate incomes. It’s operated by the Countywide Community Development Corp., which serves Brunswick, New Hanover, Pender and Columbus counties. Both have landed good jobs, Edwards at AME Zion Housing Development Corp. and Winfield at Family Perspectives LLC. They are among about 30 graduates of Project Uplift classes. One morning last week, Edwards and Winfield were in the office administration class at the Hillcrest Recreation Center off Dawson Street. About 15 women were working at computer terminals under the tutelage of Carmenitha Berry, …
By PAUL CLARK Asheville Citizen-Times Posted: Nov. 15, 2008 ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Travis Robinson was headed for the streets when he heard about the Veterans Restoration Quarters. It may have saved his life, he believes. For months, he'd been having nightmares about his time in Iraq. Enemy fire and bombings were constant for the 37th Engineer Battalion as it set up support in hostile territory for soldiers coming from the rear. At home at his parents' house in Rutherford County, he'd wake up with a shotgun beside him. He was drinking, heavily. Because of it, his parents gave him a timetable for getting out of the house. He sought treatment at the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville, where he learned about the Veterans' Restoration Quarters, an old Super 8 motel on Tunnel Road that Asheville-Buncombe Community …
By Clay Barbour cbarbour@charlotteobserver.com Posted: Monday, Nov. 03, 2008 The pickings are getting slim at one of Tina Partridge's favorite shopping spots, another sign of the country's tough times. About once a month Partridge and her five children head to the Steele Creek Goodwill retail store, where the young mother can find great deals on everything from school clothes to dirt bikes. But the slumping economy is taking its toll on selection these days, and that hits parents like Partridge particularly hard. “With a big family like mine, finding the stuff you need at a good price is a matter of survival,” she said. Goodwill officials said area donations were down 5 percent for the year, 10 percent over just the past three months. Meanwhile, the organization has experienced a dramatic increase in demand for its free …
This is a draft of the State Strategic Plan for 2007-2010. As directed by the General Assembly through HB 2077, the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services has undertaken the development of a three-year strategic plan specifying how State and local resources shall be organized and used to provide mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse services. This plan is considerably different from previous state plans. The focus of this plan is on five strategic objectives and associated action steps to be accomplished during the next three years. The plan identifies milestones for each action step for determining progress made and measures to determine the effects on consumer outcomes and system performance. Through discussions with consumers and families, providers, advocates, and leaders of Local Management Entities, the Division has identified these objectives as being the …
The Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services is charged with examining, on a continual basis, the system-wide issues affecting the development, financing, administration, and delivery of mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services, including issues related to governance, accountability and quality of services. Their 2007 report includes an assessment of the current system and recommendations for improvements. View the committee's 2007 Report to the General Assembly
NCCEH hosted a training on San Diego's Serial Inebriate Program in March, 2008. The materials from the training are posted here.
The N.C. Interagency Council for Coordinating Homeless Programs sponsored a third annual point-in-time survey on January 15, 2006. The survey was conducted in over 80 counties. It provides a conservative, but defensible, unduplicated count of people who were homeless in our state on one given night. The survey found that there were 9,521 people identified as homeless, including at least 2,490 persons in families, 1,333 of which were children. This is a decrease over the 2004 count, partially attributable to non-participation by some local community agencies. However, in other cases, local decreases may be the result of new initiative connected to Ten-Year Plans to End Homelessness. View the full report in PDF : 2006 Point-in-Time Count