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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, …
In March, 2008, Uptown Shelter Director and NCCEH Board member Carson Dean sent a survey to 136 homeless shelters across North Carolina. The goal was to gain some collective insight regarding the challenges service providers were facing with discharges from mental health facilities, medical hospitals, and prisons. For the purpose of this survey, the term “shelter” meant any emergency, transitional, or day shelter. In return for their candor, those surveyed were assured that they would not be identified, thus there is no list naming the shelters participating in this survey. This report does identify the communities (city/county) representing survey responses received. For participating in the survey, providers were offered nothing in return except receipt of the final report. Read the final report, "Discharge Planning Challenges Facing North Carolina's Homeless Shelter Providers," here.
NCCEH hosted three trainings on "Stopping the Revoving Door: An Honest Conversation about Institutional Discharge into Homelessness" in April and May of 2008. The materials from the training are posted below. "HUD Definitions of Homelessness" Powerpoint presentation: view pdf "Discharge Planning from the State Psychiatric Hospitals" Powerpoint presentation: view pdf "Re-Entry from Prison to Home" Powerpoint presentation: view pdf "Discharge Planning from the Shelter Perspective" Powerpoint presentation: view pdf South Wilmington Street Center discharge planning guide: view pdf Raleigh Rescue Mission Community Medical Respite Program referral form: view pdf