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Re-Entry Gumbo: Employer Engagement: A Key Ingredient for Successful Supervision
SESSION INFO
Monday, January 30, 2023
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Type: Workshop
Louisiana is known for its unique cuisine and we like to compare daily tasks with cooking. This workshop provides a “recipe” for Re-Entry Gumbo with a focus on a key ingredient – Employer Engagement. Gumbo is cooked in a large pot and is a mixture of many ingredients. Most ingredients are taken from what is on-hand in the kitchen, and after simmering for hours, reaches its perfection. Gumbo, like successful re-entry, is a complex mixture of ingredients. A former probation and parole officer and the family gumbo cooker – will walk participants through the process of taking what is on hand (ingredients) and putting them together (the pot) to create the perfect gumbo (the recipe for second chance hiring). This presentation follows Right on Crime’s employer forums that were implemented with community partners, employers, probation and parole, and law enforcement to inform employers of the business case for second chance hiring.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Scott E Peyton
State Director, Right on Crime
SCOTT PEYTON is Right on Crime's Correctional Director and state director for Louisiana and Mississippi. Scott has over twelve years of work experience with the State of Louisiana: first as a Child Welfare Specialist, then as a Juvenile Probation and Parole Officer, and prior to joining Right on Crime he worked in Adult Probation and Parole as a Specialist supervising violent offender caseloads. Scott has spent time as both a volunteer and reserve Deputy Sheriff, as well as providing, as needed, support to Elayn Hunt Correctional Center working as a correctional officer. He was a certified POST instructor and has taught at the Probation and Parole Police Academy. Scott has witnessed first-hand the need for criminal justice reform, the impacts of rehabilitation and re-entry programs, and the inner workings of the Louisiana Probation and Parole system. Scott trained as a medic in the Louisiana National Guard before being honorably discharged in 1991. He graduated from the University of Southwestern Louisiana with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice (1992), and LSU at Shreveport with a Master’s in Nonprofit Administration (2020). Scott is an ordained deacon in the Catholic Church and resides in Louisiana with his wife and six children.
Hester Serrano
Reentry Program Manager, LA Department of Public Safety and Corrections
Hester Serrano is a 2002 graduate of Louisiana State University where she majored in Psychology. After taking a criminology course in one of her final semesters, she was drawn to work with the formally incarcerated. On September 16, 2002, she began working for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole, where she worked as an agent in the field for the first 17 years of her career. In August of 2019, she was promoted to Reentry Program Manager allowing her to the opportunity to impact the lives of all individuals supervised by Thibodaux District Office. Agent Serrano represents the Thibodaux District office working hand-in-hand with DOC facilities, the Southeast Central Regional Reentry Center, the Louisiana Prisoner Reentry Initiative’s Bayou Region Reentry Team, the Lafourche Day Reporting Center, the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, the Terrebonne Parish Sheriff’s Office, and many other local coalitions and teams. She concentrates her efforts on the removing of barriers and defining the needs of formerly incarcerated persons and justice involved individuals. She has worked with Right on Crime Director Scott Peyton on organizing and hosting Employer Engagement Forums in the Bayou Region of south Louisiana.
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