‘‘(B) to facilitate the creation of job oppor-
tunities, including transitional jobs and time- 
limited subsidized work experience (where ap-
propriate); 
‘‘(C) to connect offenders to employment 
(including supportive employment and employ-
ment services before their release to the com-
munity), provide work supports (including 
transportation and retention services), as ap-
propriate, and identify labor market needs to 
ensure that education and training are appro-
priate; and 
‘‘(D) to address obstacles to employment 
that are not directly connected to the offense 
committed and the risk that the offender pre-
sents to the community and provide case man-
agement services as necessary to prepare of-
fenders for jobs that offer the potential for ad-
vancement and growth; 
‘‘(5) providing offenders with education, job 
training, responsible parenting and healthy relation-
ship skills training (designed specifically to address 
the needs of fathers and mothers in or transitioning 
from prison, jail, or a juvenile facility), English lit-
eracy education, work experience programs, self-re-
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spect and life skills training, and other skills useful 
in achieving a successful transition from prison, jail, 
or a juvenile facility; 
‘‘(6) providing structured post-release housing 
and transitional housing (including group homes for 
recovering substance abusers (with appropriate safe-
guards that may include single-gender housing)) 
through which offenders are provided supervision 
and services immediately following reentry into the 
community; 
‘‘(7) assisting offenders in securing permanent 
housing upon release or following a stay in transi-
tional housing; 
‘‘(8) providing substance abuse treatment and 
services, including providing a full continuum of sub-
stance abuse treatment services that encompasses 
outpatient services, comprehensive residential serv-
ices and recovery, and recovery home services to of-
fenders reentering the community from prison, jail, 
or a juvenile facility; 
‘‘(9) expanding family-based drug treatment 
centers that offer family-based comprehensive treat-
ment services for parents and their children as a 
complete family unit, as appropriate to the safety, 
security, and well-being of the family; 
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‘‘(10) encouraging collaboration among juvenile 
and adult corrections, community corrections, and 
community health centers to allow access to afford-
able and quality primary health care for offenders 
during the period of transition from prison, jail, or 
a juvenile facility; 
‘‘(11) providing or facilitating health care serv-
ices to offenders (including substance abuse screen-
ing, treatment, and aftercare, infectious disease 
screening and treatment, and screening, assessment, 
and aftercare for mental health services) to protect 
the communities in which offenders will live; 
‘‘(12) enabling prison, jail, or juvenile facility 
mentors of offenders to remain in contact with those 
offenders (including through the use of all available 
technology) while in prison, jail, or a juvenile facility 
and after reentry into the community, and encour-
aging the involvement of prison, jail, or a juvenile 
facility mentors in the reentry process; 
‘‘(13) systems under which family members of 
offenders are involved in facilitating the successful 
reentry of those offenders into the community (as 
appropriate to the safety, security, and well-being of 
the family), including removing obstacles to the 
maintenance of family relationships while the of-
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fender is in custody, strengthening the family’s ca-
pacity to function as a stable living situation during 
reentry, and involving family members in the plan-
ning and implementation of the reentry process; 
‘‘(14) creating, developing, or enhancing of-
fender and family assessments, curricula, policies, 
procedures, or programs (including mentoring pro-
grams)— 
‘‘(A) to help offenders with a history or 
identified risk of domestic violence, dating vio-
lence, sexual assault, or stalking reconnect with 
their families and communities (as appropriate 
to the safety, security, and well-being of the 
family), and become non-abusive parents or 
partners; and 
‘‘(B) under which particular attention is 
paid to the safety of children affected and the 
confidentiality concerns of victims, and efforts 
are coordinated with victim service providers; 
‘‘(15) maintaining the parent-child relationship, 
as appropriate to the safety, security, and well-being 
of the child as determined by the relevant correc-
tions and child protective services agencies, includ-
ing— 
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‘‘(A) implementing programs in correc-
tional agencies to include the collection of infor-
mation regarding any dependent children of an 
offender as part of intake procedures, including 
the number, age, and location or jurisdiction of 
such children; 
‘‘(B) connecting those identified children 
with services as appropriate and needed; 
‘‘(C) carrying out programs (including 
mentoring) that support children of incarcer-
ated parents, including those in foster care and 
those cared for by grandparents or other rel-
atives (which is commonly referred to as kin-
ship care); 
‘‘(D) developing programs and activities 
(including mentoring) that support parent-child 
relationships, as appropriate to the safety, secu-
rity, and well-being of the family, including 
technology to promote the parent-child relation-
ship and to facilitate participation in parent- 
teacher conferences, books on tape programs, 
family days, and visitation areas for children 
while visiting an incarcerated parent; 
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‘‘(E) helping incarcerated parents to learn 
responsible parenting and healthy relationship 
skills; 
‘‘(F) addressing visitation obstacles to chil-
dren of an incarcerated parent, such as the lo-
cation of facilities in remote areas, telephone 
costs, mail restrictions, and visitation policies; 
and 
‘‘(G) identifying and addressing obstacles 
to collaborating with child welfare agencies in 
the provision of services jointly to offenders in 
custody and to the children of such offenders; 
‘‘(16) carrying out programs for the entire fam-
ily unit, including the coordination of service delivery 
across agencies; 
‘‘(17) facilitating and encouraging timely and 
complete payment of restitution and fines by offend-
ers to victims and the community; 
‘‘(18) providing services as necessary to victims 
upon release of offenders, including security services 
and counseling, and facilitating the inclusion of vic-
tims, on a voluntary basis, in the reentry process; 
‘‘(19) establishing or expanding the use of re-
entry courts and other programs to— 
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‘‘(A) monitor offenders returning to the 
community; 
‘‘(B) provide returning offenders with— 
‘‘(i) drug and alcohol testing and 
treatment; and 
‘‘(ii) mental and medical health as-
sessment and services; 
‘‘(C) facilitate restorative justice practices 
and convene family or community impact pan-
els, family impact educational classes, victim 
impact panels, or victim impact educational 
classes; 
‘‘(D) provide and coordinate the delivery of 
other community services to offenders, includ-
ing— 
‘‘(i) employment training; 
‘‘(ii) education; 
‘‘(iii) housing assistance; 
‘‘(iv) children and family support, to 
include responsible parenting and healthy 
relationship skill training designed specifi-
cally to address the needs of incarcerated 
and transitioning fathers and mothers; 
‘‘(v) conflict resolution skills training; 
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‘‘(vi) family violence intervention pro-
grams; and 
‘‘(vii) other appropriate services; and 
‘‘(E) establish and implement graduated 
sanctions and incentives; 
‘‘(20) developing a case management reentry 
program that— 
‘‘(A) provides services to eligible veterans, 
as defined by the Attorney General; and 
‘‘(B) provides for a reentry service network 
solely for such eligible veterans that coordinates 
community services and veterans services for of-
fenders who qualify for such veterans services; 
and 
‘‘(21) protecting communities against dan-
gerous offenders, including— 
‘‘(A) conducting studies in collaboration 
with Federal research initiatives in effect on the 
date of enactment of the Second Chance Act of 
2007, to determine which offenders are return-
ing to prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities and 
which of those returning offenders represent the 
greatest risk to community safety; 
‘‘(B) developing and implementing proce-
dures to assist relevant authorities in deter-
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