5-Key Model for Reentry

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"The 5-Key Model for Reentry is a data-driven reentry services approach that provides behavioral health-focused supports for individuals leaving incarceration and coming back home. Unlike many models that help people during this transition time (often called the reentry period), the 5-Key Model can be adapted for use with all individuals leaving incarceration, including those experiencing mental health or substance use disorders and high-risk individuals convicted of serious crimes."

Impact of Family-Inclusive Case Management on Reentry Outcomes: Interim Report on the Safer Return Demonstration Evaluation

Abstract

This interim report details the first two years of the Urban Institute’s evaluation of the family-inclusive case management component of the Safer Return Demonstration—a reentry program based in Chicago’s Garfield Park neighborhood. The report presents the logic of the case management model and summarizes family members and formerly incarcerated persons experiences and perceptions, based on interviews and focus groups. In general, family members were highly supportive of returning prisoners and, despite a typically disadvantaged socioeconomic status, provided substantial material support to their returning family members, particularly housing. The implications of these findings for the Demonstration and reentry planning are discussed.

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