Post Release

What's the goal?
Reduce recidivism of formerly incarcerated individuals (Institute participants)

How we accomplish this...
Provide formerly incarcerated men with viable skills that support their ability to identify, analyze, manage, and resolve their internal issues so that they can establish crime-free life styles.

Coach formerly incarcerated fathers as they apply newly acquired skills and patterns of thinking to their relationships with family, community, faith organizations and employment.

Assist participants to establish structured, productive lives as they solve real life problems such as addressing outstanding obligations (child support arrearages, restitution, etc.), seeking and obtaining employment, creating a budget, and securing housing.

What's the goal?
Increase employment retention of formerly incarcerated men (Institute participants) in law abiding endeavors

How we accomplish this...
Develop participants' interpersonal communication and conflict resolution skills as marketable employment assets, making them attractive prospects in any work environment

Provide work support to participants while they attend classroom sessions and apply their classroom skills in a supervised environment.

What's the goal?
Create opportunities for Institute participants to "give-back" and "pay-forward" in ways that demonstrate their personal growth and mastery.

How we accomplish this...
Teach participants the content and skills that make them competent to be facilitators to implement Response-Able ReEntry curricula.

Provide the opportunity for formerly incarcerated fathers to use their personal "been-there, done-that" experiences as authentic and effective interventions.

R.A.R.E. Institute  Beyond Incarceration provides

• Continued education, practice, application and integration of new skills and thinking patterns
• A sense of belonging to family, positive communities and an authentic supportive peer group
• Mastery in the use of interpersonal communication, critical thinking, planning and organization, interest-based negotiations, conflict management, parenting and leadership skills
• Thoughtful planning for healthy independence
• Opportunity to "give back" to society

Activities

• Relevant Information for Real-Life (R.I.R.)Seminars
  These sessions focus on subjects such as: financial budgeting, medical insurance options, identifying community resources, mental health topics, education grants, stress relief/relaxation techniques and managing materialism.

• Employer Dialogue Groups
  Discussion sessions with potential employers on employment related topics such as how participants can market their skills to secure employment, what employers look for in a resume and workplace expectations.

• Family-member-Sponsor® programming
  each Institute participant and his Family-member-Sponsor work on common group themes and or individual family and community integration issues.

• Faith Community Connections
  includes organized relevant and educational activities with various faith groups to expand participants’ community awareness and support.

• Man-2-Man Support
  The Institute provides the support and a sense of belonging through an experienced and authentic peer group of formerly incarcerated men.

• Successful-Self Planning®
  is a continuous assessment of the creation and implementation of each Institute participant’s plan to address his real concerns such as outstanding obligations, (including child support arrearages and restitution) seeking and obtaining employment, creating a financial budget, and receiving medical, emotional and psychological treatments; applying newly acquired skills and patterns of thinking to improve family, employment, faith and community relationships

• “Giving-Back & Paying-Forward”
  Formerly incarcerated men return to prison settings. They work with WinWin, Inc.'s experienced R.A.R.E. Institute instructors as they continue their personal growth, give-back to the community that they harmed and pay-forward by affecting the lives of others. This Service Learning component combines participants' "been there, done that” experiences with their new knowledge, awareness of root causes of behavior and a self-awareness - allowing them to be positive role models.