LIVE: A Community Conversation – MENTAL HEALTH: A crisis in Colorado hosted by KKTV Channel 11 and The Colorado Springs Gazette at Pikes Peak Center in Colorado Springs. Read more about the discussion here.
Evaluation of North Carolina’s Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Program (From the RAND Corporation)
Before 2013, incarcerated individuals in North Carolina could enroll in college correspondence courses, but there was no coordinated effort to provide a path toward a postsecondary degree or credential. Furthermore, there was no coordination around reentry. The Vera Institute of Justice’s Pathways from Prison to Postsecondary Education Project (Pathways) was a multistate demonstration project in three states — Michigan, New …
Coordination and Communication are Key to Improving Mental Health and Criminal Justice in America
Mental health and criminal justice are a tangled mess in communities all across the country. Rather than supporting health from childhood through old age, our social systems show hardly any signs of understanding mental health at all. We don’t systematically recognize or have the capacity to respond to early indications for concern, and instead rely upon law enforcement to intervene …
NEW REPORT FINDS CLASS IS A MORE POTENT PREDICTOR OF INCARCERATION THAN RACE. BUT RACISM DRIVES IT.
IT’S A FACT that African-Americans are disproportionately represented in America’s prisons. In state prisons, where the majority of prisoners are held, African-Americans are incarcerated at 5.1 times the rate of white Americans. But what remains an open question is what explains this racial incarceration gap; what needs to change to eliminate that gap? Is it a racist economic system that produces …
College can be brutal for students with serious mental health conditions. Here, they find support their schools can’t provide
For the past three years, Boston University has offered one of the few programs in the nation dedicated to teaching students who have had to leave college the coping skills that will give them a shot at getting back into school or work while managing severe anxiety, depression, and other serious mental health conditions. Read the full article here.
Everyday trauma reshapes Rochester schools’ approach to teaching and supervision
Across the Rochester City School District, adults are being asked to fundamentally recast the way they think about the children they teach and supervise. The new approach, called trauma-informed education, begins with a recognition that many students will not succeed academically unless their teachers, counselors, and administrators give them loving support in calming the harmful effects of violence and poverty. Read …
To understand mental health, start teaching at an earlier age
Mental illness is no longer an obscure term shrouded in misunderstanding. A substantial scientific body of evidence concludes it is a disease. It’s far beyond time to standardize mental health education in students as early as elementary school. Read the full article here.
We Need School in Prison, and States Must Take the Lead
Making education available for all people in prison is essential. When individuals participate in any kind of educational program within a prison, their chances of future incarceration drop by 13 percent. Read the full article here.
Investing in early childhood education now reduces crime later
The evidence shows that high-quality early childhood education programs are critical for our future public safety, and for many of the kids, they are a ticket to a successful life that does not include crime. Preschool can return, on average, a profit to society of $30,000 for every child served, with much of the savings coming from reduced crime costs …
New Prison Program Pairs Mentors With Young Offenders
The pilot program, called T.R.U.E. (Truthfulness to oneself and others, Respect toward the community, Understanding ourselves and what brought us here, Elevating into success) was set up about seven weeks ago for about 70 18- to 25-year-old offenders at the prison. “Somehow and some way in the intervening 100 years in criminal justice in the United States we lost our …
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