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Breaking Barriers
Fresh Start Community Center- Breaking Barriers Program was created to meet the needs of individuals who are returning to society after incarceration. By implementing life skills geared specifically towards the ex-offender and addressing the barriers that they face with positive learning & development experience with one on one mentoring.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Mentoring
- Physical Health
- Inititative/program name:
- Fresh Start Breaking Barriers
- Year Established:
- 2009
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Fresh Start Community Services, Inc
- Population served by initiative/program:
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- 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
- Tribal populations
- Sex offenders
Downloads
Breaking Barriers
Contact:
Linda HorneBusiness Administrator
Fresh Start Community Services
Phone: 623-931-2801
7206 N 55th Ave #101
Phoenix, Arizona 85060
lin@fresh-start.org
fresh-start.org
Breaking Barriers
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Housing
- Mental Health
- Mentoring
- Physical Health
- Inititative/program name:
- Fresh Start Breaking Barriers
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Fresh Start Community Services, Inc
- Funding sources for initiative/program:
- Local and Private donations
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Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
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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:
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- 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
- Tribal populations
- Sex offenders
- Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
- 291
- Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
- 24
- Total number of people who can be served at one time:
- 24
- If your initiative/program serves people under community corrections supervision, how does your organization work in partnership or work in collaboration with participants’ probation or parole officers?
- We offer the program syllabus and schedule to the probationand parole offices, they refer their clients to us directly and continued participatin is reported to the officers.
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- We collect data for age, gender, race, housing, marital and family status, education levels, transportation, employment barriers, current community services received, criminal records back ground. The average client is Single, Male,between 24-35, non-custodial parent, temperary living conditions, has not completed a formal education, and released from prison within a year.
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- No
- Does your organization measure and/or track the outcome of participation?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- Job placement, re-arrest, and discharge from probation.
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?
- We have a database of over 3,000 currently incarcerated inmates in the USA who recieve monthly newsletters that offer an article section addressing the reentry issues and resources. We respond to resource request by printing or collecting data from the internet for housing, reentry centers and faith-based programs in the area where they will be released.
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- No direct activities.
- How are people placed into your program?
- Referral local agency referals