“They’re team players, they’re hard workers there when they come back,” Camargo said. “They want to be part of the system again. We want them to be successful once they come out.” LatinoVoicesWTTW
“We give them a seamless re-entry, so they come home, they immediately meet a career coach,” Perez said. “They get a six-week paid work experience, which allows them to have money in their pocket as soon as they get out. So if you came home and you wanted to be a truck driver, we would sign you up for … the workforce innovation opportunities grant and that pays $6,000 towards any educational opportunities that you want.
“Sometimes the participants have been incarcerated for five or 10 years; [they] come back home and the computer system is completely different,” Camargo said. “They come home, and they don’t know how to actually use the programs. We teach them one-on-one basis, so that helps them also create confidence within themselves, but also for the next job.”
Perez said the employers he works with have had good experiences with the formerly incarcerated people they’ve hired. “I’ve heard more employers say that they actually get a better worker out of somebody coming home from incarceration because they’ve had time to realize that they need employment, that they’ve been locked up so long that all they have is their job,” Perez said. “They come home, and they kind of give it their all. So I’ve got nothing but good reports from employers.”“They’re team players, they’re hard workers there when they come back,” Camargo said. “They want to be part of the system again.
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