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July 17th, 2008
To read the complete minutes of the 04.17.08 Coordinating Council Meeting click below
Meeting Minutes 07.17.08
PowerPoint Presentation
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Meeting Overview
NEXT MEETING: Coordinating Council Meeting August 17th, 2008, @ 1:00pm - 3:00pm 2nd Floor Conference Room, 1212 Broadway Oakland, CA 94612
DECISIONS:
- Decision makers will receive a briefing packet prior to the meeting
- Provide Decision Makers with data about their district
- Present short list of prioritized recommendations to Decision Makers.
MAJOR TOPICS DISCUSSED:
- Updates from other tables
- Recruitment and Assignments
- Outlook, Theory, and Methods
- Banning the Box
- Decision Maker’s Agenda for September Meeting
ASSIGNMENTS:
- Bill will be sending out the Invitees letters
- Bill will update the PowerPoint
- Bill will provide more information and offer Coordinating Council Contact.
- Dave, Junious, Garry, Dorsey, Bill, Gay, and Rodney will have a meeting to shape the agenda for September.
- Coordinating Council will provide more opportunities for Decision Makers to be involved in September’s Decision Makers Meeting.
- Coordinating Council members will identify issues of elected and agency heads about their concerns prior to the meeting.
July 10th, 2008
Please join the National Employment Law Project’s Second Chance Labor Project for a workshop geared toward job developers working with people who have criminal records.The workshop will include information about consumer protection and anti-discrimination laws that provide protections for workers with criminal records.
Please contact Jessie Warner at jwarner@nelp.org or 510.663.5707 with any questions and to RSVP for the workshop.
When: Thursday, July 17 from 9 a.m to 10 a.m.
Where: 405 14th Street, 2nd Floor Conference Room
(corner of 14th and Franklin in Downtown Oakland)
July 7th, 2008
The Summit will be an all day event, full of engaging speakers, entertainment, food, and opportunities for dialogue on critical issues related to safe and successful reentry to San Francisco communities. This year, we expect at least 500 attendees.
Monday, September 29, 2008 ; 9am-4pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
700 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
July 3rd, 2008
Job Program for Ex-Offenders Makes a Difference: PIC Staffer Charles Turner Provides Leadership. Charles Turner, PIC’s resident reentry expert has a long history of working in programs that provide support for the formerly incarcerated. In fact, he started on these issues before the term “reentry program” had even been coined. For more information click Here
July 2nd, 2008
The Joyfields Institute for Professional Development is holding a summit on “Evidence Based Practices for Correctional Reform, Reentry and Reintegration” on July 21-25 in Atlanta, GA. For more information on the summit click HERE .
