Civic Education: Post Incarceration Reentry Problems, Policies, Programs and Opportunities--Panel Presentation

Civic Education: Post Incarceration Reentry Problems, Policies, Programs and Opportunities--Panel Presentation

Location

ZOOM
US
Thursday, September 30, 2021 - 12:00pm

Hosted by: 

League of Women Voters of Central Delaware County

PO Box 131,
Wallingford, PA 19086
(610) 566 5474

Join us for a special Civic Education Program: Post Incarceration Reentry: Problems, Policies, Programs, and Opportunities panel presentation is scheduled for Thursday, September 30, 2021 at Noon via Zoom.

This program will focus on the obstacles that people who were formerly incarcerated in Pennsylvania prisons face when they return to their communities after serving their time and on the programs to help them.

Program is co-sponsored by the Civic Education Committee of the League of Women Voters Central Delaware County and the NAACP Media Branch. Panel participants are as follows:

Panel Moderator: Maurice Q. Jones, general manager of PAR (People Advancing Reintegration) – Recycle Works, which helps returning inmates obtain jobs in the recycling industry.

Panelists:
Robert Reed, Executive Deputy Pennsylvania Attorney General who heads the state’s PA Reentry Council.

Jean-Pierre Brice has a radio station Cultivating MaturePositivity www.cmpradio.net . Incarcerated as an adult and has experienced reentry.His work has been at the county level with the DAs office and through the Chester Partnership for Safe Neighborhoods (CPSN)

Jamila Harris works with Incarcerated Women’s Working Group - Women reentry and fair chance hiring - mental health peer specialist, certified recovery specialist.

The webinar is FREE but to receive the Zoom link via email you MUST register. You can submit questions for the panel in advance with your registration.

Contact Information
Ralf Graves, Civic Education Chair
ralfgraves [at] comcast.net