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City unveils plan to help offenders reverse course
03/25/10
High Point leaders on Tuesday unveiled a plan to help steer former violent offenders away from criminal lifestyles. Under the city’s partnership with America Works –a New York-based company that helps find work for people with criminal records and other hard-to-serve job-seekers – a hand-picked group of chronic ex-offenders will get job readiness training, job placement and monitoring services to make sure they stay in meaningful, full-time employment.
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Editorial: Jobs can avert return to prison
03/25/10
High Point's initiative to find work for ex-offenders is as much about reducing crime as it is jobs.
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New Program Aims To Help Ex-Offenders Find Jobs
03/24/10
High Point Police and the High Point Community Against Violence came together Wednesday to announce a new partnership with the group America Works to help ex-offenders find jobs. Police Chief Jim Fealy says more often than not, inmates go right back to a life of crime after their release.
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NYC TV: Job Hunt
03/24/10
They led platoons in Iraq, but now that they're back home, how does military service translate into job experience? How does someone with a non-traditional work history convince an employer of their worth? We've got advice and answers right here on Job Hunt. nyc.gov/jobhunt
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New Program Aims To Help Reduce High Point Violent Crime Rate
03/23/10
High Point added another piece to its crime reduction strategy Tuesday as it unveiled a plan to help violent criminals find jobs — with the hope that meaningful employment will keep many of them from going back to prison.
The city and High Point Community Against Violence have contracted with the employment company, America Works, to help violent offenders find and keep jobs
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From The Joint To A Job
03/23/10
High Point is expected to announce a plan Tuesday to help former violent criminals get meaningful employment in the community with the hope it will reduce recidivism.
A news conference at 1:30 p.m. in the Plato S. Wilson School of Commerce at High Point University will outline the plan between the High Point Community Against Violence and High Point police department and America Works.
The company, based in New York City, has programs across the country that assist people in finding full-time meaningful employment. America Works helps everyone from U.S. military veterans to HIV/AIDS patients to criminal offenders.
Researchers form Columbia University conducted a first-year evaluation of the company's Project eX program in New York in 2002.
Here's a summary of results:
This report presents a model for addressing the challenge of how to reintegrate released inmates of the prison system into mainstream society. The authors find that the welfare-to-work approach used by America Works is effective in finding employment for these ex-offenders and reducing recidivism, all at a significant savings to the taxpayer. The study finds that in New York, America Works placed more than three quarters of those who completed the initial orientation process in jobs, and more than 4 in 10 are still in that same job six months later. Based on the current recidivism rates, almost a third of those people would normally already have been back in prison. And America Works, the study shows, is achieving this success at a cost more than 30% lower than what New York State would otherwise spend on incarceration.
The America Works Web site lists programs in Albany, Baltimore, Newark, New York, Oakland, but none in the South. The results seem positive for those areas. Let's see if America Works will actually work for High Point.
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City Overhauls Ex-Offender Program
03/22/10
Mayor Michael A. Nutter today announced changes to the City’s re-entry program for ex-offenders which include changes in the program’s name, mission and location
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Hire Me! Former Marine Now Homeless After Being Laid Off As Building Superintendent
03/22/10
Andre Davis has seen better times. He traveled around the globe as a member of the Marine Corps and also worked at an East Harlem apartment building as the superintendent. But when Davis lost that job in January 2008, he lost the apartment that came with it, too. His safety net soon collapsed, and Davis now lives in a homeless shelter in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Where Are The Jobs?
03/08/10
Mr. Cove on ABC 7 evening news (NYC).
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The Colbert Report: Job Man Caravan Featuring Mr. Peter Cove
02/03/10
Watch Mr. Peter Cove on The Colbert Report!
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High Point City Council approves America Works Project
01/20/10
High Point City Council approved funding and a contract for a program that will help convicted felons get back to work. The America Works Project will cost taxpayers $45,000 and help 33 ex-offenders.
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Soldier to civilian: a rocky transition
11/12/09
The country honors its veterans each year on Nov. 11, but many ex-military personnel feel they’re not getting the support they need to transition smoothly back into civilian life, particularly when it comes to finding jobs.
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Before Unraveling Welfare Reform, Appreciate Why It Worked
02/24/09
Our economic tsunami could drown the historic reforms made in welfare over the past 13 years. We must not let that happen.
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