This week: Recommendations for Strengthening the Reentry Employment Opportunities Program
#link [#link]
RECENTLY FROM CLASP
August 11, 2022
[[link removed]]
Recommendations for Strengthening the Reentry Employment Opportunities Program
In this brief, CLASP and the National Reentry Workforce Collaborative (NRWC) offer a set of recommendations to strengthen and modernize the federal Reentry Employment Opportunities (REO) Program to ensure that a greater number of people impacted by the criminal legal system have access to quality jobs through effective, equitable, and culturally responsive practices.
Our recommendations build on two recent proposals to codify the program and are grounded in the perspectives of current REO programs, partners, and intermediaries across the country.
READ MORE [[link removed]]
Childhood hunger does lasting harm. This new bill can help end it. [[link removed]]
Food insecurity has adverse, long-term effects on children, impacting them in adulthood. The improved Child Nutrition Reauthorization bill takes a critical step to creating a solid foundation that allows students to flourish and grow.
READ MORE [[link removed]]
Liberation: Transforming the System for All Youth [[link removed]]
The New Deal for Youth Changemakers’ policy platform is built on a framework of four tenets: abolition, decriminalization, reparations, and liberation. In this blog, the authors share their personal experiences of what liberation means to them, their community, and the efforts in a New Deal for Youth.
READ MORE [[link removed]]
NEW: Child Care Assistance Spending and Participation in 2019
Though states can receive funding through the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act (CCDBG) and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant, funding for child care programs has failed to meet families’ needs—leaving them unable to access affordable, high-quality child care.
This fact sheet analyzes national and state spending and participation data for CCDBG- and TANF-funded child care for FY 2019.
READ the BRIEF [[link removed]]
CLASP in the News
AUGUST 10, 2022 | HOMELAND SECURITY TODAY
ICE Hosts NGOs to Discuss Parental, Guardianship Rights for Minor Children, Incapacitated Adults [[link removed]]
AUGUST 4, 2022 | LA-IST
Wait, How Did Student Debt Even Become A Thing? [[link removed]]
AUGUST 3, 2022 | CALIFORNIA BUSINESS JOURNAL
Top 6 Collateral Consequences Of Criminal Charges [[link removed]]
AUGUST 2, 2022 | NOTRE DAME NEWS
Comprehensive investment in people improves social services, Heather Reynolds testifies [[link removed]]
JULY 30, 2022 | WWL
HHS Secretary to address children’s mental health crisis ahead of upcoming school year [[link removed]]
Did You Know? Black adults are nearly 6x as likely to be incarcerated as people who are white. A comprehensive set of reforms must include policy solutions that dismantle current oppressive policing and carceral systems and their wide-ranging impacts. The Reentry Employment Opportunities Program plays a critical role in healing communities. [[link removed]]
READ MORE [[link removed]]
CLASP.ORG [[link removed]] | MAKE A DONATION [[link removed]] | UNSUBSCRIBE [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]] [link removed] [[link removed]]
CLASP • 1310 L St. NW, Suite 900 • Washington, D.C. xxxxxx • (202) 906-8000
CLASP
1310 L St. NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC xxxxxx
United States