Untapped Talent: Best Practices in Hiring & Retaining Justice Involved Individuals
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SESSION INFO

Tuesday, August 30, 2022
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Session Type: Workshop
This workshop will look at the untapped talent of justice involved individuals entering our workforce and consider best practices for guiding them to gainful and sustainable employment. We will wear a new pair of glasses as we walk through our correctional and reentry systems and consider the career preparedness and pathways to successful integration into the workforce. We will consider federal and state legislation and our current labor market as we guide justice involved individuals to educational and career and technical support programming that the will set them on the path to success.

SESSION PRESENTERS
Jeffrey Abramowitz
Chairman of Behind & Beyond the Walls Prison Literacy Committee, Coalition on Basic Adult Education


Jeffrey Abramowitz, J.D. is the Executive Director of Justice Partnerships and previously served as the Executive Director Reentry Services for JEVS Human Services and the Program Director of Looking Forward Philadelphia Reentry Program. Jeff was a 2018 Fellow for Justleadership. Jeff proudly sits on the Executive Board of the Coalition on Adult Basic Education, COABE, where he serves as Secretary, and chairs the State Advocates for Adult Education Fellowship Program. Jeff was appointed to the Pennsylvania Reentry Council and serves as Chairman of the Employment Committee and Co-chairs the Reentry Committee for the PA Workforce Development Board. Jeff is Co-chair of the Philadelphia Reentry Coalition. Jeff is a subject matter expert for the US Department of Education, IET in Corrections Project, and serves as Moderator for US Department of Education LINCS (Literacy Information & Communication System, Resource Collection) Community of Practice on Correctional & Reentry Education, as well as a LINCS Reviewer and Trainer. Jeffrey is a writer, keynote speaker, and lecturer around the country on issues of adult education, workforce development, and criminal/social justice.