Employment

CJI is pleased to be working with the Greater Lowell Workforce Investment Board (GLWIB), and the Career Center of Lowell, in the development of a strategic plan that will lead to a formal coordinated process enabling multiple local, state and federal partners in the Greater Lowell Area to better prepare ex-offenders in their education and job placement success post incarceration.

With support from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, CJI conducted a three-county examination of the preparation of prisoners for employment upon release.

Examining the Massachusetts Criminal Offender Record Information (CORI) system and its impact on ex-offenders seeking employment and housing.

A grant from the Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation to assume management, production and distribution for the “Coming Home” Resource Directory for Massachusetts Ex-Offenders.

CJI collaborated with Cornerstones for Kids and CPS Human Resource Services to conduct a national assessment of the condition of the juvenile justice workforce, to explore the impact of juvenile justice reform on the workforce, and to produce a report on aligning workforce efforts with reform goals.