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Community Lifestyle Institute Inc
Community Lifestyle Institute’s seeks to strengthen families, increase economic stability, and improve health and public safety. Our goals are • Educating formerly incarcerated persons with contemporary job skills to enhance their possibility of social and economic success • Offering workshops in anger management, reading/writing and reasoning literacy, and soft skills to ensure participants have the social capital needed to obtain economic and social success.
Quick Facts:
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Mentoring
- Inititative/program name:
- Reentry Program
- Year Established:
- 2011
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Community Lifestyle Institute 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
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
Community Lifestyle Institute Inc
Contact:
Jamillah GrantPresident/CEO
Community Lifestyle Institute, Inc
Phone: 504-309-0811
925 Common Street #1402
New Orleans, Louisiana
jamillahg@gmail.com
Community Lifestyle Institute Inc
Initiatives and Programs
- Focus of initiative/program:
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- Education
- Employment/Job Training
- Mentoring
- Inititative/program name:
- Reentry Program
- Lead agency/organization name:
- Community Lifestyle Institute Inc
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Funding
Partners in the reentry initiative/program
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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
- Men
- Women
- People convicted of a violent offense
- People convicted of a non-violent offense
Data Collection
- Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- Age, ethnicity, sex, education level, occupational data
- Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
- Yes
- If "yes", what kind of data? And what results has this data yielded?
- Number of participants, types and level of service provided
- 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, educational level attained, certifications attained, outcomes success or failure to successfully reenter society.
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?
- Community Lifestyle Institute is a non-profit organization whose primary mission is to assist recently released incarcerated persons to reenter society by education, partnerships, and acting as a clearinghouse of information and services. The United Way offered an ex prisoner program through Odyssey House which provided drug rehabilitation, health care and residential treatment programs. Unfortunately, at this point in time, the ex-prisoner program is no longer available through Odyssey House. While drug rehabilitation is important, family oriented programs are needed which deals with education, training, housing, employment, attitudes/behavior modification, care of children and family, finance and debt management (McQuire and Raynor, 2006). Prior to Katrina, New Orleans offered Project Return, a fairly comprehensive program which provided temporary housing, social skills, substance abuse, and job readiness programs. This program has not been reactivated since the storm. The Catholic Charities, Cornerstone project is an entity specifically designed for the aid of ex-prisoner reentry. However, this program is highly selective and can only serve those who have GED’s or high school diploma and are drug free. The total population of their program is 40-50 participants per year. There rate is excellent but they limit their program to a very few excellently qualified candidates. It is the intent of Community Lifestyle Institute to offer a comprehensive ex-prisoner program open to men and women as required under by the Federal government.
- What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
- In the New Orleans area most reentry programs deal with substance abuse programs, or referrals for housing etc. Our program is a mentoring and educational program aimed to reeducate participants into current societal norms; job skills, literacy and anger management.
- How are people placed into your program?
- Participants must consent to program whether referred or selecting our program.