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Reentry Gumbo: Employer Engagement - A Key Ingredient for Successful Supervision!
SESSION INFO
Saturday, June 29, 2024
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Louisiana is known for its unique cuisine and we like to compare daily tasks with cooking. This workshop provides a “recipe” for Reentry Gumbo with a focus on a key ingredient – Employer Engagement. Gumbo is cooked in a large pot and is a mixture of many ingredients. Most ingredients are taken from what is on-hand in the kitchen, and after simmering for hours, reaches its perfection. Gumbo, like successful reentry, is a complex mixture of ingredients. A former probation and parole officer and the family gumbo cooker – will walk participants through the process of taking what is on hand (ingredients) and putting them together (the pot) to create the perfect gumbo (the recipe for second chance hiring). This presentation follows Right on Crime’s employer forums that were implemented with community partners, employers, probation and parole, and law enforcement to inform employers of the business case for second chance hiring.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Scott E Peyton
Regional Director, Right on Crime
Peyton has over 12 years of work experience with the State of Louisiana: first as a child welfare specialist, then as a juvenile probation and parole officer. Prior to joining Right on Crime, he worked in adult probation and parole as a specialist supervising violent offender caseloads. Peyton has spent time as both a volunteer and reserve deputy sheriff, as well as providing as-needed support to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center working as a correctional officer. As a former instructor with Peace Officer Standards and Training certification, he taught at the Probation and Parole Police Academy. Peyton has witnessed firsthand the need for criminal justice reform, the impacts of rehabilitation and re-entry programs, and the inner workings of the Louisiana Probation and Parole system.
Peyton currently serves on Louisiana’s Violent Crime Task Force to study and evaluate recent legislative reforms to the Louisiana criminal justice system. Peyton also serves as Co-Chair of the Safe Alternatives to Segregation Task Force, and he is a member of Gov. Landry’s Crime and Public Safety Transition Council.
Peyton graduated from Louisiana State University at Shreveport with a Master’s in nonprofit administration and from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a BS in criminal justice. Peyton served in the Louisiana National Guard before being honorably discharged. He resides in Louisiana with his wife and six children.
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