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From Options To Action: Mayor's Summit On Re-Entry And Employment |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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From Options to Action: The Mayors Summit on Reentry and Employment
On February 28, P/PV joined The United States Conference of Mayors, New York University's Wagner School of Public Service and The City of New York to convene a groundbreaking national summit designed to promote effective strategies for connecting formerly incarcerated individuals to the labor market. The Mayors Summit on Reentry and Employment brought together mayors, other policymakers, leading academics, foundations and practitioners from more than 20 cities to share promising solutions for helping former inmates find steady jobs and avoid repeat incarceration.
We would especially like to thank Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg for lending the weight of his office to this event and providing leadership on this issue of national significance; his keynote address can be found here. You can also access an online version of the packet we distributed at the Summit, including the agenda, speaker bios and relevant flyers, as well as PDFs of the PowerPoint presentations given at the event, here. We are also working on a formal post-Summit report that will include a review of emerging policy solutions and promising practices in the field, based on the Summit's presentations and discussions, as well as P/PV's extensive study of the reentry issue. The Summit, together with innovative work being done in a number of cities and states and the long-awaited passage of the Second Chance Act, represent important progress toward more effective reentry policies. And, in light of recent findings regarding astronomical rates of incarceration and recidivism in the US, presented in Pew's One in 100: Behind Bars in America 2008, progress comes not a moment too soon.
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