Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship. Inc.

The Certified Second Chance Reentry Master Trainer Program (CSCRMT) includes 24 hours of training in life-skills, self-sufficiency, self-esteem and life purpose development skills, as well as entrepreneurship training topics to train trainers to teach at-risk youth and adults, returning to the community from incarceration, how to find success in their second chance efforts. The training also includes career and entrepreneurship training that will lead students to starting-a-business and operating a successful small business, when job opportunities are not available.

Quick Facts:

Focus of initiative/program:
  • Education
  • Employment/Job Training
  • Inititative/program name:
    The Certified Second Chance Reentry Master Trainers Program
    Year Established:
    2010
    Lead agency/organization name:
    Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship, Inc.
    Population served by initiative/program:
  • Returning from local detention facilities
  • Returning from local jails
  • Returning from prison
  • Not under community corrections supervision
  • Adults
  • Men
  • Women
  • People convicted of a non-violent offense


  • Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship. Inc.

    Contact:

    D.Harold Greene
    Executive Director
    Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship. Inc.
    Phone: 1-877-464-2066
    1201 Preservation Way - Unit 203
    Wilmington,, North Carolina 28405
    faithschl@aol.com

    www.faithinstitute.org

    Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship. Inc.

    Initiatives and Programs

    Focus of initiative/program:
  • Education
  • Employment/Job Training
  • Inititative/program name:
    The Certified Second Chance Reentry Master Trainers Program
    Lead agency/organization name:
    Faith Institute of Entrepreneurship, Inc.

    Funding

    Funding sources for initiative/program:
    Individuals and Corporate

    Partners in the reentry initiative/program

    Informal Agreement Formal Agreement
    (e.g., a written contract or an MOU) with this partner.
    Community- and faith-based services providers:
    X
    Education and training providers (e.g., local public school officials, vocational instructors):
    X
    Members of the community (e.g., people who have been incarcerated, their families or neighbors):
    X
    Work force development and employment agencies (e.g. business associations, unions):
    X

    Participants

    Population served by initiative/program:
  • Returning from local detention facilities
  • Returning from local jails
  • Returning from prison
  • Not under community corrections supervision
  • Adults
  • Men
  • Women
  • People convicted of a non-violent offense
  • Total number of people who have participated in initiative/program to date:
    600
    Total number of people currently participating in initiative/program:
    600
    Total number of people who can be served at one time:
    1,500
    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?
    n/a

    Data Collection

    Does your organization collect demographic data on participants?
    No
    Does your organization collect data about the process of your initiative/program?
    No
    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?
    n/a
    What activities does your organization engage in post-release and how do these activities differ from those offered to the general population?
    At the completion of this 24 hour program, there will be a Second Chance Reentry Master Trainers Certification Examination on all life-skills, self-esteem and self-sufficiency training, and upon passing the exam the trainers will receive a Certified Second Chance Reentry Master Trainers (CSCRMT) certificate.
    How are people placed into your program?
    Referral
    Explore the Justice Center’s Websites
    CSG Justice Center Criminal Justice / Mental Health Consensus Project Justice Reinvestment National Reentry Resource Center Reentry Policy Council