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THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

Highlighting leading practices, policies, and approaches in reentry workforce.

RECENT SESSION – DECEMBER 6

Optimizing Fair Chance Employer Relationships

This webinar explored practical strategies for creating and sustaining effective employer relationships, securing company buy-in, addressing turnover challenges, and balancing candidate referrals with improving employer practices.

Experts also discussed implementing feedback loops to ensure continuous improvement and long-term success. Gain actionable insights to strengthen fair chance hiring and make a lasting impact in your community.

Speakers: 

Molly Verghese – Workplace Solutions Lead, Cara Collective (Cara Plus)
Lisa Durkin – Director, Jobs for the Future
Sarah George – Labor and Employment Attorney, Husch Blackwell

 

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP SERIES SESSION FOURTEEN

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Previous Thought Leadership Sessions

Session 14: Optimizing Fair Chance Employer Relationships

December 6th, 2024. Learn strategies to create and sustain effective employer relationships, secure company buy-in, address turnover challenges, and implement feedback loops for continuous improvement. Gain actionable insights to strengthen fair chance hiring practices and make a lasting community impact.

Session 13: Navigating Barriers to Occupational Licensing

September 6th, 2024 In this webinar, two former regulators and a reentry workforce practitioner shared insights on distinguishing real vs. perceived barriers and discussed practical steps providers can take to collaborate with regulators and open more opportunities for justice-impacted job seekers.

Session 12: Education, Healthcare, and the Justice-Impacted Workforce

June 7th, 2024. Explore how the expanded Federal Pell Grant Program and Medicaid in 2023 are creating new opportunities for incarcerated individuals. Experts will share insights and strategies to navigate these changes.

Session 11: The Role of the Federal Government

March 8th, 2024. NRWC strives to improve connections between reentry stakeholders and federal agencies. Federal representatives shared programs for justice-involved and explored partnership opportunities for community organizations.

Session 10: Employment Pathway in the Health System

December 1st, 2023. During this webinar, we explored how Lifespan, Rhode Island’s largest employer and healthcare system, developed Pathway to Employment (PTE). This innovative work-based learning program equips individuals affected by the criminal legal system with the skills and connections needed to secure employment in this rapidly expanding industry.

Session 9: Holistic Reentry Models

June 9th, 2023. In this webinar, we will hear from practitioners who will share the benefits of taking a person-centered approach, how this impacts the overall outcomes for their participants. We will also hear from individuals directly impacted by the criminal legal system, and their experiences receiving reentry workforce services.

Session 8: Understanding the Implications of Background Checks

March 31st, 2023. In this panel, you will hear from experts who will share the basics about background checks, how to assess candidates, and resources & tools to ensure your organization is complying with employment law around background checks.

Session 7: Solutions to Collateral Consequences

December 9th, 2022. The panelist take a critical look at recent policies and practices that are being implemented across the country to break down barriers to success for people with criminal records.

Session 6: Why Fair Chance Hiring

June 3, 2022. Three companies that practice Second (Fair) Chance hiring. They share what motivates them to take this approach, the unique benefits, and challenges they encounter in championing fair chances.

Session 5: Economic Mobility for People Impacted by the Justice System

Explore strategies and approaches that have proven to help people who have been impacted by the justice system to get on a path towards economic mobility.

Session 4: Effective Employer Engagement

December 3, 2021. Effective strategies for building transformative relationships with employers that result in career and economic mobility for people impacted by the justice system.

Session 3: Collaborating for Impact

September 17, 2021. Three organizations taking different approaches to collaborate and mobilize stakeholders, and the impact of the collective effort on their communities.

Session 2: Youth Leadership Council

June 4, 2021. Successful youth leadership council for reentry programming.

Session 1: Community Reinvestment

April 23, 2021. A focus on Colorado’s success in redirecting public safety resources to community.

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