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Collaboration between Probation, Parole, and a Nonprofit Organization to Ensure Reentry Success through Community-Based Residential Reentry Programs
SESSION INFO
Monday, January 6, 2020
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Workshop
In Massachusetts in 2018, state funding was allocated for the first time specifically for community-based residential reentry programs. Prior to this state line item jails, prisons, and community corrections had to carve funds out of their own budgets to provide community-based reentry. Over 60% of individuals leaving state and county incarceration in MA do so on probation or parole. The Massachusetts Probation Services issued a competitive grant, awarded to nonprofit Community Resources for Justice to provide transitional housing, individualized case management based on the risk-needs-responsivity model, and other supportive reentry services to individuals leave state prisons and county jails. This workshop will provide participants with information on how this state funding was achieved, the implementation of the programs and their use of evidence-based practices in reentry, and the collaboration between probation and parole and a community-based nonprofit to support individuals leaving incarceration in order to reduce recidivism.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Dir. Jill Forbes
Statewide Director of Reentry Services, MA Probation Service/MA Trial Court/Office of Commissioner of Probation
Jill recently joined the Massachusetts Office of the Commissioner of Probation in July as Statewide Director of Reentry Services. Over the past 15 years Jill held the positions for DC Government as Deputy Director of Entry Services, Executive Consultant for Juvenile Justice Programs and the Administrator for Placement and Provider Services. She was also the Director of Children, Youth and Families for Fairfax County Virginia. Jill has held executive level positions in the private sector involved in community based programming and was the previous Assistant Commissioner for Massachusetts Department of Youth Services.
Gabriella Priest
Director of Innovation, Implementation, and Development, Community Resources for Justice
Gabriella Priest is CRJ’s Director of Innovation, Implementation, and Development. She oversees CRJ’s state and county reentry programs, a training academy, community partnerships, and government relations. Ms. Priest is also an adjunct faculty member for Suffolk University’s Sociology Department.
Michelle Wetherbee
Chief of CSU, MA Parole Board
Chief Wetherbee is the Chief of the Transitional Services Unit (TSU) of the Massachusetts Parole Board which oversees all institutional Parole hearings, releases and revocations in each of the 37 state prisons and houses of corrections across the Commonwealth. Chief Wetherbee has over 20 years of experience in corrections, the last 14 with the Parole Board.
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