LEARNREENTRY EDUCATION PROGRAM
This grant will support the Reentry Education and Supportive Services to returning citizens. This program will educate reentry participants on how to navigate, reunify and integrate back into society in a healthier manner via healing tools and advocacy. This program will also provide a multitude of reentry resources and referral connections by facilitators who have lived through this process, who are boots on the ground service providers and have the relatability and communication skills to achieve desired positive results for the clients.
What is the primary issue area that your application will impact?
Adult literacy
In which areas of Los Angeles will you be directly working?
County of Los Angeles (select only if your project has a countywide benefit)
In what stage of innovation is this project, program, or initiative?
Pilot or new project, program, or initiative (testing or implementing a new idea)
What is your understanding of the issue that you are seeking to address?
There is great need for a real time transparent reentry educational program to effectively educate reentry people. The reducing recidivism group models are not specifically detailed enough and only provides vague information that can be easily misinterpreted. Effective, realistic and simplified modern reentry information is the key to a much healthier reentry transition.
Describe the project, program, or initiative this grant will support to address the issue.
Lessonz Learned program is designed to effectively educate reentry people from a simplistic, real time and lived experience perspective. The teachings of the curriculum is the first of its kind and has only been implemented by Mr. Terrall E. Tillman in other prior reducing recidivism groups he has facilitated. The curriculum has shown flashes of possible positive desired outcomes if it was an implemented program
Describe how Los Angeles County will be different if your work is successful.
By effectively educating the reentry population on how to navigate their emotions and actions with the help of positive resources; this will give them a better understanding of new triggers, coping mechanisms and the whole reentry transition process. This kind of education builds confidence that will foster a sense of belonging to the community, which will create a more pro-active and safer environment in Los Angeles County as a whole due to reentry people getting their basic needs met.
Approximately how many people will be impacted by this project, program, or initiative?
Direct Impact: 20
Indirect Impact: 320