The more training, emotional support, education, and basic needs are offered by the community, the easier it will be for offenders to rebuild their lives without crime.
Our intervention program helped draw attention to the real need for stronger connections between corrections institutions and communities, as well as between former offenders and community members. While our small-scale project might not solve the root causes of crime or recidivism, our community action does benefit all members of the community by increasing awareness of the services available.
V. Conclusion
Relationship building is a core theme of our research. We believed that correctional facilities need to maintain strong ties with community outreach organizations. We also believe that individual members of the community including business owners need to engage in meaningful dialogue with both the Department of Corrections and community outreach organizations. Former offenders also need a social support network when they are released. Our findings support prior research indicating that a lack of social support is one of the most salient problems for former offenders trying to re-integrate into the community. Although some of the organizations we investigated provided emotional and encouragement for former inmates, such as the Resettlement Program, more work needs to be done with the families of the offenders. If former offenders cannot count on family and friends for emotional, psychological, and basic needs support then halfway houses and outreach organizations can offer assistance. However, we advocate an approach that increases communications bonds between the former offender and his or her family and friends.
Our group collaborated on all phases of the project. Each of us learned how to create and implement a community action plan. None of us expected that the work would be easy, so we were all rewarded by our efforts and look forward to applying ourselves more fully as social service professionals.
VI. Recommendations
If we were to do the project differently, we would not change our focus or our approach. We would like to have been able to engage in more longitudinal research to track the results of community outreach services on recidivism and to become more engaged in the lives of the individual ex-offenders with whom we worked. Similarly, the next steps we would take to further the impact of our project include increasing support with all the agencies and monitoring them. We could make suggestions for changes or for services currently not offered that we think might help former inmates make a successful transition to life in the community.
Our work would be meaningless without the ongoing support of the community. We hope that individuals in the community develop more sensitivity to the underlying causes of crime and work together to create safe neighborhoods. Reducing recidivism is not only the work of the offender but also of the community.
For the purposes of directing ex-offenders "from darkness to light," we felt that the first and most important step was to introduce the inmate population to the wealth of resources already existing in the community. Community Partners in Action, the Catholic Charities Resettlement Program, and Families in Crisis each offer specific ways to help inmates upon release. Yet rather than suddenly thrust pamphlets at inmates when they leave prison, they
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