Carolina Justice Policy Center
Reducing Barriers to Re-entry: After Jail, Prison or during Supervision
Service providers, citizens, attorneys and families are working hard across the state with justice involved persons as they re-enter their communities after jail, during supervision and after prison. 4.75 CLEs are available for attorneys at the regular conference cost of $60 plus $14.25 for CLE credits (the conference cost is $65 after May 2).
This conference will give you an opportunity to learn about and brush up on best practices at each stage of the system. The state has set a goal for reduction of 5 - 20% in the Justice Reinvestment Act. How can that be accomplished? Are there opportunities for reinvestment dollars to help reduce recidivism and barriers to sucessful reentry?
At whatever stage you are engaging in this issue, there will be something for you. We will be discussing strategies for providing effective community-based services needed at each stage of the criminal justice system including pre-trial, probation, post-release supervision and re-entry after prison. We'll also be focusing on the community collaborations required to coordinate and leverage local services.
With special thanks to:
NC Pre-Trial Services Association for co-sponsoring this event
and to the Bob Barker and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundations
for their support
The tentative schedule and topics for the conference are as follows. Additional information will be posted as we move closer to the date.
9:00 - 9:30 - Registration, Coffee and Danish
9:30-10:45 -- Panel A: Reinvestment: Why We Need It and Possible Options - David Guice, Commissioner, Adult Corrections and Juvenile Justice; Rep. Leo Daughtry - Co-chair, Justice and Public Safety, Appropriations; Rep. Charles Graham - Member, Justice and Public Safety, Appropriations; Brenda Howerton, Chair, Justice and Public Safety, NC Association of County Commissioners
10:45-11:00 -- AM Break
11:00-11:15 - Re-Entry: Lessons from Other States - Dennis Schrantz, Director of the Center for Justice Innovation and former Chief Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections
11:15 - 11:55 - Panel B: Resources to Know About
Keith Sutton, Department of Public Safety
Nancy Johns, Bob Barker Foundation
12:00 - 12:45 - Panel C1: Building Re-Entry Councils and Community Coalitions - Erik Ortega, Chair, Mecklenburg Re-Entry Council; Judge Marcia Morey, Chief District Court Judge and Chair, Durham Criminal Justice Advice Committee; and Rev. Freddie Barnes, President, Nash-Edgecombe-Wilson, Re-entry Council and Pastor, Jackson Chapel.
12:00 - 12:45 - Workshop C2: Communities that Already Have Re-entry Councils - this is a simultaneous workshop for participants that already have organized Re-entry Councils or Community Coalitions
Dennis Schrantz - Dennis Schrantz, Director of the Center for Justice Innovation and former Chief Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections
12:45 - 1:30 - Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 -- Afternoon Workshops A (Please Choose 1 to Attend)
- Reducing Recidivism and Barriers to Re-entry while on supervision (TECS/ CIC, residential, Drug Treatment Courts or Re-entry programs) - Dennis Schrantz, Dennis Schrantz, Director of the Center for Justice Innovation and former Chief Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections
- Mental Illness, Pre-trial Services and Mental Health First Aid - Kim Gordon, Director, Buncombe County Pre-trial Release Services; Mental Health First Aid - Nancy Woodard, Mental Health Association of Central Carolinas
- Veterans: Treatment Courts and Treatment Options - Honorable George Franks, Veterans Treatment Court Judge, Cumberland County; Tim Virgilio, Veteran's Justice Outreach Specialist, Durham VA.
- Expunction, Collateral Consequences, Certificate of Rehabilitation: Reducing Barriers - Dennis Gaddy, Director, Community Success Initiative; Daniel Bowes, Atty., NC Justice Center and NC Legal Aid; Darryl Atkinson, Atty., Southern Coalition for Social Justice
2:30 - 2:45 - Afternoon Break
2:45-3:45 -- Afternoon Workshops (Please Choose 1 to Attend)
- Best Jail/ Pre-trial Practices for Reducing Re-entry Barriers - Dennis Schrantz, Director of the Center for Justice Innovation and former Chief Deputy Director of the Michigan Department of Corrections
- Re-entry Councils - What We're Doing/ What We're Learning - Keith Sutton, DPS; Erik Ortega, Chair, Mecklenburg Re-entry Council; Joyce Jones, Pitt Re-entry Council and Director, Strive
- Veterans: Treatment Courts and Treatment Options - Honorable George Franks, Veterans Treatment Court Judge, Cumberland County; Tim Virgillio, Veteran's Justice Outreach Specialist, Durham VA.
- Mental Illness, Pre-trial Services and Mental Health First Aid - Kim Gordon, Director, Buncombe County Pre-trial Release Services; Mental Health First Aid - Nancy Woodard, Mental Health Association of Central Carolinas
If you need to arrive on Thursday, May 15th, nearby hotels include: