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Partnerships for Reentry Programming (PREP)

PREP

Partnerships for Reentry Programming (PREP) is an Incarcerated Individual services rehabilitation program that serves 90percent of Incarcerated Individuals being released. There are four components to the program:

  • Cognitive skills training;
  • Employment readiness and career development;
  • Community resource information, and
  • Victim / offender impact and awareness.

PREP Goals include:

  • Partner with agencies to better coordinate training opportunities, secure personal ID documents and enhance service delivery;
  • Reduce re-offending rate by 10 percent;
  • Increase corrections pre-release and transition services;
  • Standardize Incarcerated Individual programming from intake through release, and
  • Track participants.

Partners

  • Division of Correction
  • The Enterprise Foundation
  • Mayor's Office on Criminal Justice
  • Division of Parole and Probation
  • Baltimore City Police Department
  • Community Development Corportations (Sandtown-Winchester, Druid Heights, Historic East Baltimore)

Program Components

  • Life skills training;
  • Job and employment career training;
  • Trade skills training, if qualified;
  • Community resource information training;
  • Victim / offender impact and awareness;
  • Coordinated pre- and post-release case management planning;
  • Offender Employment Initiative;
  • Governor's Council on Management and Productivity and State Use Industries link up to:
    • Develop a business mentoring program
    • Expand the Prison to Work program
    • Improve offender employment opportunities