TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR PAROLEES  (article 22)
Channel: CTD Housing
Date: 2022-03-20

TRANSITIONAL HOUSING FOR PAROLEES 

Since we're amid a pandemic that's turned our lives upside down, even if you've only been incarcerated for a short time, you undoubtedly feel like everything has changed.  

Re-entry programs and support groups are a great way to help people with the transition from prison life to the outside world. 

Few individuals have a clear gap between their previous life and their current existence. So if you want to, it's a chance to do things differently.

And we've gathered some resources to assist you in getting started.

Methods for preparing for reintegration
Add these items to your to-do list if you're going to be freed.
1. Start looking for work 
2. Look for methods to demonstrate that you are a responsible renter. 
3. Get engaged in the community 
4. Join a support group
5. Keep asking
6. Consider your attitude

Parolees' financial resources

When a person returns to society, it is customary to face financial difficulties. 

Earning a livelihood offers a significant barrier without a job in place and a restricted résumé due to the time spent in jail. 

However, you do not have to face life after prison with empty pockets. 

Here are some financial resources to look into:

1. Housing Choice Vouchers: 
2. Work Opportunity Tax Benefit: 
3. Supplementary Security Income Benefits: 
4. Food stamps: 
5. Your Money, Your Goals Toolkit: 

Prisoner Re-Entry Challenges

Around 700,000 people are released from state prisons in the United States, while another 9 million are freed from county jails. 

However, more than 10% of persons entering and exiting prisons and jails are homeless. 

Being homeless, having insecure housing, or living in a high crime area increases the risk of recidivism.

Those with mental illnesses have more significant than usual rates of homelessness and housing instability among ex-offenders. 

Homelessness is a public health concern and a public safety one. 

Similar research found a significant proportion of previously jailed persons in the New York City shelter system, lending credence to the phenomena of homeless and insecurely housed ex-offenders.   

Metraux and Culhane (2006) discovered that 23 percent of the sheltered homeless had been incarcerated during the preceding two years, with people entering from prisons accounting for 17 percent and those returning from prison accounting for 7 percent of that number.   

Herbert, Morenoff, and Harding (2015) discovered that high rates of housing insecurity among former prisoners were linked to features of community supervision, returns to prison, and other risk factors when they investigated the relationship between homelessness, housing insecurity, and incarceration.   

The study's significant results revealed that parolees had a considerably higher incidence of movement and that mental illness, drug and alcohol misuse, past detentions and prior experiences of homelessness were all predictive of residential instability and housing instability (Herbert et al., 2015, p. 20).

A guide to finding housing after incarceration

If you have a loved one who will be released, you undoubtedly wonder what to anticipate when a prisoner returns home. 

But, more significantly, you may be wondering what you can do to assist them.

Your willingness to assist will make a difference. "Family support is essential.

Here are some pointers to assist your returning citizen:

1. Research services: 
2. Understand their probation and parole: 
3. Assist them with their job hunt: 
4. Create a plan: 

Transitional housing for parolees in California

The list below provides transitional housing options for individuals who are currently incarcerated and are proactive in lining up housing for post-release or looking to provide documentation to the parole board that they have transitional housing that will accept them if they are granted parole.

1. Hope Help and Healing
2. Crossroads, Inc.
3. Seventh Step Foundation
4. Union Rescue Mission
5. A New Way of Life re-entry project
6. Healthright360
7. The Francisco Homes
8.  Women in Transition Re-entry Project Inc.
9. Love Lifted Me Recovery
10. Veteran Housing Facility
11. Men of Valor Academy
12.  The Overcomers Program
13. Recovery Zone
 

Thank you for taking the time to read this article and if you need assistance, don't hesitate to contact us for more information.