Mentoring Ex-Prisoners: A Guide for Prisoner Re-entry Programs

In November 2007, the U.S. Department of Labor released a manual that draws on the experiences of the Ready4Work sites and promising practices in mentoring to provide information and suggested guidelines for practitioners who are interested in developing a mentoring component that helps support ex-prisoners and support the effectiveness of other program areas, such as job placement and retention. The experience of Ready4Work was that programs have to implement a number of key practices - involving staffing, recruiting, training, supervision and support - if the mentoring efforts are going to succeed. This manual aims to provide guidance about what these . . .