Reentry and Integration Division

Reentry Task Force Workgroups

Team Charter for Family and Support Services Working Group

Identify current programs or resources available to promote family reunification, and advance faith-based and other community-based entities that focus on family reunification.

Identify strategies to improve the family’s involvement in the offender’s reentry efforts, and indentify gaps currently found in the family unification process.

Identify strategies to enhance the pre- and post-release support provided by community-based groups (including faith-based and nonprofit groups), and identify gaps or barriers currently preventing these entities from providing services.

Develop recommendations that will address all gaps and barriers, and report those recommendations and findings to the Task Force.

Identify barriers that impact an effective collaboration with family and other support service groups, including those caused by:

statutory barriers
regulatory barriers
programmatic barriers
resource barriers
implementations barriers