James E. Scott Community Associates (JESCA)
Job
program to assist ex-offenders in finding employment.
Coconut Grove Cares
Only
provides services to juveniles at high risk.
PRIDE (Prison Rehabilitative Industries and Diversified Enterprises, Inc.)
PRIDE is a nonprofit private corporation that manages the state prison industries. It functions in partnership with private industry, the State government, public agencies and community organizations. In addition to operating 53 industries in 21 state prisons, PRIDE offers job placement assistance upon release and support in transition back to the community for PRIDE workers only.
Habitat for Humanity
habitat for
Humanity welcomes applications from ex-prisoners. Habitat's work
(building homes for the poor) is done by close to 400 different local projects
scattered across the country. A person wanting to apply to one of
those affiliate projects is best off contacting that project directly.
A second way to be involved with Habitat in the U.S. is to work at the
Americus headquarters. Most of the work is not building, but office
and administration. Habitat uses mostly "volunteers" but can provide
furnished housing with utilities and a subsistence stipend for them.
Habitat for Humanity also welcomes applications from prisoners who will
soon be released.
Reach Ministry, Inc.
The Reach
Ministry operates a transitional shelter which offers a 12-step drug counseling
program, Christian counseling and evangelism, clothing and food assistance.
John Howard Association of Hawaii
this is a private nonprofit criminal justice agency. Its programs include delinquency intervention efforts, transition housing for youth, sex offender programs, juvenile anger management, and counseling and employment assistance for ex-offenders.
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