Features:

• four-page, full-color pamphlets focus on specific job and life skills.
  
• A Reality: What to Expect box appears on the front of each pamphlet. These boxes orient the ex-offender to job realities, anticipated emotions, and other people’s reactions to life transitions –all traps of typical recidivism.
  
• Concrete “How To’s” have been written wherever possible. All abstract language is removed to reduce facilitating the “scheming” and poor decision making that often leads to re-addiction and recidivism.
  
• Each pamphlet contains at least one activity or exercise
  
• Information is presented in small, chunked segments for individuals functioning with potentially undeclared learning disabilities.
  
  All materials are designed to target a 9th grade reading level – the minimum required literacy for many programs.

Reentry pamphlets focus on three topics – honesty, money, and self-confidence. The holistic approach has the offender practicing budgeting time and money, as well as self-reporting honestly in the activities in these pamphlets.

Job Skills

Finding a Job

• Self assessments
• Types of jobs and places to look for jobs
• Worksheet for identifying jobs to apply for
• Assessment worksheet for identifying skills, abilities, and interests

Filling Out Job Applications

• Tips on filling out applications
• What to bring and wear when you go to fill out applications
• Information you need to know to fill out applications successfully
• A worksheet to fill out an bring

Job Interviews

• Preparing for an interview
  Questions you can expect on an interview
  Tips for interviewing well
  Interview checklist worksheet

Creating Your Résumé

• Résumé tips, do’s and don’ts
• What goes on a résumé
• Worksheet for creating a résumé

Beginning The New Job

• Showing Pride in Yourself
• What to expect on your first day
• Orientation and forms
• Taxes & Tax Worksheet

Keeping the Job

• Making the most of training
• Good work habits
• Communication and time management

Transportation

• Understanding transportation methods
• Budgeting for transportation
• Getting to and from work

 

Life Skills

Handling Conflict

• What conflict is and where it comes from
• Tips for handling conflict at home and at work
• Practice sheet for choosing the right words during conflict

Handling Money

• Differentiating between wants and needs
• Understanding fixed and variable costs
• Creating a budget
• A budget worksheet

Handling Stress

• What is stress?
• Post-traumatic stress
• Coping with stress
• Stress management exercise

Somebody’s Angry

• What to do when you feel angry
• Defusing anger in children
• Ways to make an angry situation better
• An anger management log

Building Relationships

• The importance of building good relationships
• Being a trustworthy employee
• Responsible parenting
• What to do if you make mistakes

Housing

• Budgeting for household expenses
• Understanding types of housing
• Finding public housing and using housing choice vouchers

Setting Up the Household

• Purchasing small wares and basic goods
• Getting organized to save time
• Making good choices on a budget

Pamphlets
in the Series:

Finding A Job

Creating Your Resume

Filling Out A Job Application

Job Interviews

Beginning the
New Job

Transportation

Keeping The Job

Handling Money

Handling Conflict

Handling Stress

Somebody’s Angry

Building Relationships

Housing

Setting Up The Household

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The Reentry Career Pamphlet Series is designed to help ex-offender reenter the society and the workforce. These pamphlets give an overview of basic skills needed to succeed at home and on the job. They can be used as instructional tools, or as an intial assessment to determine needed services.

The program is designed to screen clients into two categories –

• those ready to launch into independent successful employment with only a review of job readiness and basic life skills
  
• the more dependant individuals in need of skill training and
  additional support services.