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Meeting Offenders Where They Are: Innovative Community Supervision
SESSION INFO
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Session Type: Workshop
Meeting Offenders Where They Are: Innovative Community Supervision highlights an initiative between the Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence (FFCE) and the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC) designed to transform the re-entry experience. This session introduces a mobile outreach model that delivers essential services directly to individuals under supervision. By removing transportation and access barriers, the program creates meaningful opportunities for stability, dignity, and success. Attendees will gain insight into the program’s development, early outcomes, and plans for expansion. Through data and strategy, this presentation demonstrates how innovation and compassion intersect to reduce recidivism and strengthen communities. Participants will leave inspired by a replicable model of progress that meets people where they are and helps them move forward.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Erica Averion
Executive Director, Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence
Erica Averion Spivey is the Executive Director of the Florida Foundation for Correctional Excellence (FFCE), the Direct Support Organization for the Florida Department of Corrections. She leads statewide efforts to strengthen Florida’s workforce by connecting career-trained returning citizens with employers, advancing fair and second chance hiring, and reducing recidivism.
Under her leadership, FFCE has launched CDL scholarships, entrepreneurship training, mobile re-entry services, technology upgrades system wide, industry-specific equipment, and an employer engagement network that links correctional education with labor market demand. These initiatives support thousands of credentialed job seekers annually while building stronger pipelines for Florida’s key industries.
Previously, Erica spent over a decade designing and leading in-prison programs, including character and re-entry dorms, and co-founded a mentorship program now deployed statewide. She began her career in child welfare and remains passionate about expanding economic opportunity, believing people want to live their greatest wishes, not resolve their greatest regrets. She champions overlooked talent with criminal histories as one of America’s most underutilized workforce assets.
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