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Reentry Law Project
The Reentry Law Project provides civil legal assistance to people with criminal records. The Project handles individual cases, impact litigation, advocacy, and community education.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Legal Assistance
- Inititative/program name:
- Reentry Law Project
- Year Established:
- 2006
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Legal Aid of Western Michigan
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Not under community corrections supervision
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Victims
- Gang members
- Elderly
- Tribal populations
- Sex offenders
- Individiuals with convictions generally
Reentry Law Project
Contact:
Miriam AukermanReentry Law Project, Legal Aid of Western Michigan
Phone: 616-774-0672
89 Ionia NW
Grand Rapids, Michigan 49503
maukerman@legalaidwestmich.net
reentry.mplp.org
Reentry Law Project
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Legal Assistance
- Inititative/program name:
- Reentry Law Project
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Legal Aid of Western Michigan
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Combination of funding sources (if so, please describe the combination in the space provided below)
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
- X
Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
| Informal Agreement | Formal Agreement (e.g., a written contract or an MOU) with this partner. |
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| Education and training providers (e.g., local public school officials, vocational instructors): |
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| Institutional corrections (e.g., DOC, jail, prison): |
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| Law enforcement agencies (e.g., police, sheriff's office): |
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| Members of the community (e.g., people who have been incarcerated, their families or neighbors): |
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| Other criminal justice agencies (e.g., prosecutors, judges): |
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| Work force development and employment agencies (e.g. business associations, unions): |
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Participants
- Population served by initiative/program:
- Returning from local detention facilities
- Returning from local jails
- Returning from prison
- Not under community corrections supervision
- Under community corrections supervision (parole or probation)
- Adults
- Juveniles
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
- Victims
- Gang members
- Elderly
- Tribal populations
- Sex offenders
- Individiuals with convictions generally
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- several thousand
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- Yes
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- No
Activities
- What, if any, activities does your initiative/program include for people while they are incarcerated and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- some educational materaials
- How are people placed into your program?
- self referred and agency referred