SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Improving Outcomes for People Directly Impacted by Incarceration Through Civic Studies Education that Includes Meaningful Employment

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：通过公民研究教育（包括有意义的就业）改善直接受监禁影响的人们的成果

• 批准号: 2228340
• 负责人: Hilary Binda
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Tufts University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228340&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Improving

This project in the NSF CIVIC Innovation Challenge program expands upon the Boston-based program of the Tufts Educational Reentry Network, MyTERN, that combines Tufts University courses with community-based resources, cultivating knowledge, skills, and capacity for increased civic engagement among formerly incarcerated people. There are many daunting barriers people and their local communities face with social reintegration into community life following release from prison after long prison sentences. Successful reentry into the community includes securing housing and employment, obtaining a high school or college education, and addressing substance use and other mental health needs. The proposed project takes an approach to social innovation where education in civic studies and community engagement are central aspects of a robust reentry program. The multipronged approach of the reentry program that this project envisions is expected to decrease recidivism and increase the social-emotional health of marginalized communities most impacted by incarceration. This project develops a plan for a social innovation program to substantially reduce recidivism, building on the MyTERN program at Tufts University, creating new internships with MyTERN, providing greater reintegration and civic engagement opportunities, increasing its capacity for more sustainable impact on individuals, communities, and the society at large, and measuring the outcomes and benefits of the program to the community and for the returning citizens. It focuses on the qualitative impacts of the reentry program on securing employment, continuing education, social and emotional well-being, and community engagement measures, a type of data not typically captured by reentry studies that generally focus on recidivism. It identifies local organizations supporting civic engagement in the fields of reentry, recovery, and workforce development, and brings together innovators and civic entrepreneurs with local and state government agencies. The internship-employment sites will also be cultivated from among the network of community organizations that the Tufts’ Tisch College of Civic Life has established for undergraduate interns to work on social issues affecting the local community. The research findings will be broadly shared among academic, local and national community-based audiences, non-profit organizations, and government agencies working with formerly incarcerated people or reentry programs.This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program—Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs—and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

NSF CIVIC 创新挑战计划中的这个项目扩展了塔夫茨教育重返网络 MyTERN 的波士顿计划，该计划将塔夫茨大学的课程与社区资源相结合，培养知识、技能和能力，以提高前被监禁者的公民参与度长期服刑后出狱后，人们及其当地社区在重新融入社区生活方面面临着许多令人畏惧的障碍，包括获得住房和就业、获得高中或大学学位。拟议的项目采取社会创新的方法，其中公民研究和社区参与的教育是强有力的重返计划的核心方面。该项目设想的重返计划是多管齐下的。预计将减少累犯并提高受监禁影响最严重的无家可归社区的社会情感健康。该项目以塔夫茨大学 MyTERN 计划为基础，制定了一项社会创新计划，以大幅减少累犯，创造了新的计划。 MyTERN 的实习机会，提供更多的重返社会和公民参与机会，提高其对个人、社区和整个社会产生更可持续影响的能力，并衡量该计划对社区和回国公民的成果和好处。再入境计划对确保就业、继续教育、社会和情感福祉以及社区参与措施的定性影响，这是通常关注累犯的再入境研究通常不会捕获的一种数据，它确定了支持当地组织公民参与的数据。再入场，塔夫茨大学蒂施公民生活学院为本科生实习生建立的社区组织网络也将培育实习就业场所。致力于解决影响当地社区的社会问题。研究结果将在学术界、当地和全国社区受众、非营利组织以及与前被监禁者或重返社会项目合作的政府机构之间广泛分享。该项目就是对此做出的回应。到公民创新挑战计划 - 轨道 B。弥合基本资源和服务与社区需求之间的差距 - 是 NSF、国土安全部和能源部之间的合作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。