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| Recommendations for Creating Collaborations |
| By Warden Calvin Lightfoot, CJM, Allegheny County Jail, PA |
| Published: 04/13/2001 |
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1. Identify the agency within your county or jurisdiction that is responsible for the Welfare to Work program. 2. Set up a meeting with the agency. Prior to meeting, identify the individuals within your inmate population who were on welfare prior to being incarcerated. It may be a good idea to identify fathers who could qualify to be non-custodial parents, as this is one of the qualifying points within the Welfare to Work concept. 3. When you have your meeting with the Welfare to Work agency, be sure to ask the following: * Did you serve any of the inmates who are in my system prior to their becoming inmates? * Do you serve ex-offenders after they leave my system? * If the answer to these questions is yes, ask the agency representative if they would consider implementing a Welfare to Work effort in your jail. 4. Explain the logic of working from your jail, emphasizing the value of creating continuity of the Welfare to Work services by extending assistance to their former clients who are incarcerated. 5. Make the case that by including jail in its approach to getting people off welfare, it will connect a broken chain (the time spent off the welfare program while incarcerated) and ensure more public safety. 6. The location in which Welfare to Work should begin working from your jail is in the classification housing units. This gives agency representatives the opportunity to begin identifying and assessing the needs of clients as they are admitted into the jail. 7. If your jail lacks some services, such as drug and alcohol treatment, that would support the Welfare to Work effort, ask the welfare agency if it would establish those services in your jail. Most likely, they will. 8. Once an individual inmate has received services in your jail from Welfare to Work and is released to society, he/she will continue to receive those services after release. This helps Welfare to Work to be more successful in its overall mission. |
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