Southwestern Pennsylvania Re-entry Coalition was created by Mon Valley Initiative to coordinate resources for individuals whose criminal record creates barriers to self-sufficiency, through collaboration among agencies in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

SPARC brings representatives from these participating organizations together to find the best way to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with the services and resources they need to successfully re-enter society and the workforce.
SPARC currently works to:

• Identify potential career paths for people re-entering the workforce (excluding those from which individuals with criminal backgrounds are banned by law)
• Increase the number of employers willing to hire formerly incarcerated individuals through education about incentive programs
• Address policy issues through information and advocacy

Southwestern Pennsylvania Re-entry Coalition was created by Mon Valley Initiative to coordinate resources for individuals whose criminal record creates barriers to self-sufficiency, through collaboration among agencies in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

SPARC brings representatives from these participating organizations together to find the best way to provide formerly incarcerated individuals with the services and resources they need to successfully re-enter society and the workforce.
SPARC currently works to:

• Identify potential career paths for people re-entering the workforce (excluding those from which individuals with criminal backgrounds are banned by law)
• Increase the number of employers willing to hire formerly incarcerated individuals through education about incentive programs
• Address policy issues through information and advocacy

Screens clients to determine treatment/non-treatment needs. Provide supportive counseling and assistance with referrals. Provide re-entry services for the substance abusing/dependent client who is transitioning from incarceration or fulfilling criminal justice mandates. Monitor drug/alcohol use by performing breathalyzer tests and urine drug screens and report the results to the assigned probation officer or designee of the Court. Provide case management services to clients who have been in the criminal justice system. Case management provides linkage to treatment facilities if identified; recovery support services including; tangible needs (food, clothing); community resources (self-help groups); various housing needs; education; employment and training; and medical care.

Offers job training and placement, workshops, job fairs, training and certifications, resume assistance, and other employment services.

Helps young adults, age 18 to 24, involved in the justice system, prepare for in-demand jobs.

Offers services including housing and employment assistance, case management services, trauma screening and assessment, family reunification, counseling and referral services for substance abuse treatment, mental health, and physical health, and Healthy Parenting Program classes using Triple P curriculum.

Offers reentry programs that include employment and housing search assistance for formerly-incarcerated individuals with a focus on members of the Jewish community.

Offers comprehensive reentry services for returning citizens. The program helps clients to identify their needs and goals, find housing, build support networks, strengthen skillsets, build resumes, access training and education, find steady employment, and build healthy family relationships

Offers twelve-week paid training program designed to support adults who have been out of the workforce or who experience barriers to employment to find and maintain stable, higher than entry-level positions in the food service industry.

Provides wraparound services for students, including case management, life skills classes, and referrals for supplemental services such as transportation and uniforms.

Provides information resources, referrals, and guidance regarding employment, housing, education, food assistance, mental health services, and clothing to reentrants to ensure successful return to the community.

Offers a free one year program that empowers young adults by ensuring that they gain the skills, experiences, and support necessary to reach their full potential and thrive in professional careers and higher education. Students spend six months learning in-demand technical and professional skills before applying their skills during a six-month corporate internship. Throughout the program, students complete coursework that may be eligible for college credits and receive access to a robust offering of services and supports to promote their success.

Helps students with disabilities transition from school to work.

Programs for individuals who have been involved in the legal system. Provides education, employment, and training services.

Provides mental health CRISIS intervention and assessment

Offers a 4-week program to fully reintegrate individuals with criminal records into the economic and social mainstream through job training and employment opportunities, intensive case management, and peer-to-peer supportive services. Provides social-emotional coaching; cognitive behavioral therapy; financial supports for critical job readiness assets like credentialing; work uniforms; or down payments for affordable apartments; and job opportunities with partner employers.

Prepares incarcerated individuals for success through offering a series of workshops on topics including social media, applying for medical benefits, securing housing, and obtaining education and employment. Provides one-on-one mentorship for at least six months to develop a personalized goal plan. Also works with soon to be released juvenile lifers to help them transition into the community.

You will meet privately with professional staff to develop a plan that establishes your vocational goals and objectives for the year.
You will work in a safe, comfortable, well supervised and supportive workplace modeled after the factory environments of area manufacturers.
Within this setting, you will work on tasks such as: hand and machine assembly, heat sealing and shrink wrapping, drilling, gluing, sorting, packaging, labeling and occasional clerical jobs.
You will also work with professional staff to develop your social skills so that you can work cooperatively with others while on the job and in future work settings.
You will be paid for this work in keeping with the United States Department of Labor standards.
This service is licensed by Pennsylvaniaâs Department of Public Welfare/Office of Developmental Programs.

Provides services and programming for individuals involved in the justice system and those with similar barriers to employment.
- Employment assistance includes employment preparedness, resume writing, financial literacy, education/skill assessments, computer lab access, and employment placement.
- Registered pre-apprenticeship program that provides career and technical education, hands-on learning, and an employment-focused curriculum with job readiness skills.
- Workforce development program for individuals with a criminal record and mental health diagnosis and currently receiving case management services at SAM, Inc.
- Workforce development program for individuals with a criminal record and an opioid use disorder and currently receiving case management services.
- Assistance with transportation and IDs.

Provides individualized wraparound services to justice-involved women to help them with meet basic needs, find employment, and access stable housing. Provides comprehensive case management services.

Provides a workforce development program for adults experiencing a variety of barriers to employment while providing cost effective outsourced labor solutions to customers, including packaging, assembly, kitting, shrink-wrapping, and mailing.

Provides a workforce development program for adults experiencing a variety of barriers to employment while providing cost effective outsourced labor solutions to customers, including packaging, assembly, kitting, shrink-wrapping, and mailing.

Provides reentry services to all justice-involved individuals paroled from the Chester County Prison and other local institutions. Services vary but usually includes help with housing, treatment, transportation, and employment.

Provides reentry case managment. Assists with securing IDs, accessing behavioral health services, locating safe and sober housing options, and finding employment, Also provides parenting skills training.

Offers a re-entry program that provides participants with opportunities to engage in employment or education, maintain longterm employment, sustaina stable residence, and successfully address any substance use or mental health issues.

Provides comprehensive services to assist Pennsylvanians with disabilities prepare for, obtain and maintain employment. Services available include skills assessment, training, counseling, placement assistance, evaluation for assistive technology and ongoing support services.

The Hiram G. Andrews Center offers post-secondary education at the Commonwealth Technical Institute, and also provides career opportunities and independent living skills.

The Office of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing provides information, referral and advocacy to adults and children who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as their employers, relatives and friends. An online database of qualified sign language interpreters is available.

Provides reentry supportive services for families impacted by the criminal justice system. Offers services that include housing assistance, mentoring, case management, referral services, food, clothing, educational support, employment assistance, photo identification cards, driver's licenses, and bus passes for employment.

Provides reentry supportive services for families impacted by the criminal justice system. Offers services that include housing assistance, mentoring, case management, referral services, food, clothing, educational support, employment assistance, photo identification cards, driver's licenses, and bus passes for employment.

Offers comprehensive prison services and reentry programming providing health linkages, supportive services, education, and advocacy for individuals, families, and communities impacted by mass incarceration. Services include case management, employment services, work-readiness and job retention initiatives, computer literacy, peer mentoring, expungement clinics, anger management program, parenting classes, and more.

Offers support and assistance to formerly incarcerated women with obtaining access to programs and services that will help to improve their quality of life, including referrals for employment, housing, substance abuse counseling, family reunification, and appropriate health care information.

Provides pre-release mentoring services. Arranges workshops that educate incarcerated women about child custody issues, employment, housing, and health care. Aims to restore a sense of hope and dignity, and empower clients to make positive and responsible life choices.

Provides reentry and individual/family services, including outpatient substance use disorder treatment, mentoring, anger management intervention, cognitive behavioral treatment, employment training, parenting skills classes, and transitional housing.

Veterans and covered persons receive priority of service for Federally funded activities. The Local Veterans Employment Representative works with area employers to identify qualified veterans for their positions.

Offers paid apprenticeships that gives justice-impacted young people the opportunity to develop marketable job skills and reconnect with their community through mural making, carpentry, and other creative projects. Curriculum includes job readiness and life skills training, professional development, and mentorship. Participants develop skills in professional communications, teamwork, critical thinking, problem solving, digital etiquette, résumé-building, and interview preparation.

Provides a reentry organization support and meetings to advocate and coordinate services for ex-offenders (barriers to employment for returning citizens, resume and job application assistance).

Meetings are held at:
Careelink
100 North Cameron Street
, Harrisburg, PA 17104.

Providing career services, placement, and reentry services. After enrollment program details, including participant responsibilities, are reviewed as well as any barriers the participant has that need to be addressed such as securing identification (photo ID, driver's license, birth certificate, social security card., etc.). While the participant is still incarcerated (pre-release), job readiness services are provided along with career exploration and discussions of education and occupational skills training opportunities. Post-release we continue to coordinate education, training, and employment activities while also encouraging participants in their continuation with any, court ordered or voluntary, mental health services and/or drug and alcohol treatment. We also continue to provide supportive services such as bus passes, work clothing, etc. From the date of initial enrollment, we are in contact with participants for about two or more years.

The Chester County Veterans' Affairs Office provides assistance in applying for county, state and federal veteranâs benefits. Veterans Services provides a wide range of benefits, resources and assistance.

County benefits include:

• Burial Allowance
• Burial Plots
• Headstones and Installation Allowances
• Flags and Emblem Markers
• Safeguard DD-214

For more information visit Armstrong County Veterans Affairs Office

State benefits include:

• Blind Veterans Pension
• Emergency Assistance
• Educational Gratuity
• Paralyzed Veterans Pension
• Real Property Tax Exemption
• State Veterans Home System
• Widow's Real Property Tax Exemption

For more information visit Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs

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Assists men and women returning home from prison who need help rebuilding their lives after being released. Provides support including job readiness training, employment referrals, housing assistance referrals, alcohol and substance use treatment referrals, peer mentor support, and clothing donations.

Provides re-entry services. Assists with housing, mentoring, education, and employment.

Provides transportation to and from employment and other human/social service appointments with collaborating agencies that own 12-15 passenger vans. These agencies work in partnership with 360TCI.

Offers a six-week program for formerly incarcerated and justice-involved adults providing an opportunity to gain long-term employment through life skills training and technical, job skills training. Includes $100 per week stipend, catered daily lunch, transit passes if needed, case management, wraparound services, job finding assistance, and three years of follow-up support for program graduates. Job training areas include retail (with guaranteed employment for graduates), HVAC, and CDL.

Offers outreach programs that offer paroled and released prisoners housing, job opportunity, employment training, drug and alcohol counseling, and more. Provides seniors with services.

Provides special programs and Bible studies in correctional facilities when allowed due to COVID-19 and assists inmates and reentrants find employment, housing, education, support groups, church, basic needs, etc. Reentrant or family member can contact them during incarceration, upon release or whenever their situation changes.

Offers skills training, paid work experience, and job placement opportunities to justice-involved young adults aged 18 to 24. Services include career path mentoring, job readiness training, job and/or educational placement assistance, GED prep/testing, tutoring, job skills training, access to industry-recognized certifications, paid internships, service learning projects, advice on how to discuss past justice involvement with employers, and ongoing support toward personal goals.

Offers hands-on training in the building trades, property maintenance and repair; support in achieving high school completion or equivalent; and job placement assistance. Provides monthly transportation allowance.

Individuals are provided assistance through the entire job search process including constructing resumes, practicing interview skills, and applying for jobs. The support continues after being hired until the employee, employer, and employment specialist are all confident that the job can be performed independently.

Employment Support Services include job assessments, job readiness training, job developing, job placement, volunteering, community-based work assessment, on-the-job training, Social Security benefits counseling, follow-along services.

Individuals are provided assistance through the entire job search process including constructing resumes, practicing interview skills, and applying for jobs. The support continues after being hired until the employee, employer, and employment specialist are all confident that the job can be performed independently.

Employment Support Services include job assessments, job readiness training, job developing, job placement, volunteering, community-based work assessment, on-the-job training, Social Security benefits counseling, follow-along services.

Helps ex-offenders to develop skills for re-entry into the workforce. Also provides help getting the necessary identification documentation for employment.

Provides opportunities for re-entrants to acquire the skills and values necessary to become productive law-abiding citizens, while respecting the rights of crime victims.

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; Re-integration & re-socialization counseling
; 24-hour security & supervision
; and counseling which includes time & money management, goal planning, family counseling
. Also offers employment referrals and referral to other agencies for specialized counseling.

Offers a halfway house for adult males with a history of substance use who are coming out of prison and need a safe environment to re-integrate into society. Services for residents include counseling, twelve-step meetings, life skills and budgeting training, and assistance securing employment. Residents are also referred to educational, vocational, drug/alcohol, and rehabilitation services in the community.

Provides job search assistance to those with multiple barriers to employment, including those involved in the criminal justice system.