On January 31, the Bureau of Justice Assistance's National Training and Technical Assistance Center (NTTAC) and the Department of Justice's Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships will be holding a free webinar on faith-based approaches to offender reentry.

From BJA’s announcement:

This webinar is intended to increase participants’ knowledge of faith-based approaches to reentry with an emphasis on how to become directly involved in and partner with community-based, social service, and government agencies to build a collaborative and sustainable reentry effort. Faith-based organizations will learn (1) specific ways to support current reentry efforts using existing assets and resources, (2) about the specific needs of formerly incarcerated persons and their families and how to address those needs, and (3) about the impact that reentry and those returning from incarceration have on their specific communities. Presenters will highlights best practice approaches to providing mentoring services and building networks of support for formerly incarcerated people.

Le'Ann Duran, Program Director for Corrections at the Council of State Governments Justice Center, will moderate the webinar. Panelists include Harold Dean Trulear, Director of the Healing Communities Prison Ministry and the Prisoner Reentry Project of the Philadelphia Leadership Foundation, and Joseph Williams, Founder and President of the Christian Association for Prison Aftercare (CAPA).

Date: Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Time: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST
Cost: Free

To register for this webinar, click here.

For additional resources see NIC’s Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in Corrections.