EDUCATION Key Factor to Successful Reentry

1. EDUCATION Key Factor to Successful Reentry

2. Delivery of Correctional Education • Development of Service Agreements (Contracts) • Iowa Department of Corrections • Division of Offender Services (Correctional • Education) • Iowa Department of Education • Bureau of Special Education • Iowa Community Colleges • ICCC, KCC, DMACC, IWCC, & SECC • Area Education Agencies • AEA’s 8, 10, 11,13, Green Hills

3. Identification of Offenders Needs • Offender need are identified when they first enter the correctional system: • Iowa Medical & Classification Center • Reception center for male offenders • Iowa Correctional Institution for Women • Reception center for women offenders • Grant Wood AEA 10 • Special Education Assessments

4. Education Levels of Offenders in Iowa Prisons

5. Begins at admission with a series of assessments • Continues through incarceration and transitions to the community

6. REENTRY

7. Key Elements for Success • Numerous Individuals working together for a common cause • requires • Collaboration • Between Agencies and Employers • Coordination • Program needs • Various services • Scheduling • Cooperation • Security staff and instructors • Staff and returning citizens

9. “If we want to create a just society, if we want to ensure equality of opportunity, we need to integrate how we approach criminal justice with how we approach educational opportunities. We need to assure that folks who have served their time and paid their debt to society are able to return to society with a full range of opportunities to contribute to their communities and contribute to their families” John B. King Jr. Acting U.S. Secretary of Education

10. Iowa Job Honor Awards: Edward

11. Life Skills Iowa Department of Corrections for WomenIn Partnership withDes Moines Area Community college Employability Skills

12. Employability Skills “People don’t lack will to behave well, they lack the skills to behave well.” Stuart Ablon, Ph.D. Collaborative Problem solving

13. Life Skills • Life skills are problem solving behaviors • When used appropriately and responsibly the skills help people to manage personal affairs • deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life • human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience • used to answer common questions encountered in daily human life. • subjects vary greatly depending on social norms and community expectations

14. Who Are you? • What do you want to do? • What have you done in the past? • What skills do you have? • What are your plans for the future?

15. The Five P’S Proper Preparation Prevents poor performance

16. Employment Preparation • Job Search • Job Applications • Cover Letters • Resumes • Mock Interviews

17. Graduation Spring 2015

18. Top 10 Most CommonInterview Questions Tell me a little about yourself. Why do you want to work in this company? Do you consider yourself successful? Are you willing to travel? What are your salary expectations What would you consider your greatest strength? What would you consider your greatest weakness? What motivates you? Tell me about your dream job. Why did you leave your last job?

19. I see you have acriminal history, can you tell meabout that?

20. Marsha kidd-life skills program specialisticiw/dmacc515-725-5148 website: https://www.dmacc.edu/Pages/search.aspx?k=life%20Skills

21. Iowa Department of Corrections Apprenticeship Program Vision An Iowa With No More Victims Mission To advance successful offender reentry to protect the public, staff and offenders from victimization Values and Beliefs People can change Every person should be treated with dignity and respect Our efforts make people safer We must work as a team to succeed

22. Quick Facts • 95% of people incarcerated to today will be released • Nationally more than 700,000 people are released each year • Between 12 and 14 million returning citizens live in our communities • 1 out of every 4 Americas have some a pervious offense (25%) • People who participate in correctional education programs have 43% lower odds of recidivating • Iowa’s recidivism rate is around 31% Much lower than the national average (National Rate 67.9%)

23. Quick Facts, Con’t • The US has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world • The biggest success for a returning citizen is gainful fulltime employment • Education and vocational training is a key factor for people to be successful • Apprenticeship Programs provides a high level of skill and education to a specific skill… • Employers want people who are educated with a high level of skill and that are dependable. • We teach Knowledge (Education), Skills (OJT), Desire (Job Integrity), and Confidence (problem solving skills) • We teach people you can be successful no matter what the situation

24. Iowa’s Apprentice Status • 264 offenders currently in our apprenticeship program and increasing weekly • 46 offenders have completed their apprenticeship program • Over 1.3 M OJT hours logged since 2014 • Over 57,000 curriculum hours logged since 2014

25. Many returning citizens have been hired already • Companies are calling us as another resource to highly skilled, well educated employees • One manufacturing plant HR person wrote, “I am pleased with Roger and Dean, and several months back we hired Joe whom I am very pleased with as well” “Not only excellent employee’s but fine men as well” “The Only thing I would add is Roger, Dean and Joe are for sure in our top ten employees; not only in skill and production but as model citizens” • Just recently a returning citizen turned in 5 resumes to different employers. Four returned within a few days they wanted to interview him. He was offered a job and will start out at $40,000 a year with benefits running CNC milling machines and they may promote him to a cad operator as well.

26. Our OJT is hands on training overseen by highly skilled employees (Journeymen in their field) • Apprentice are learning not only a high level of skill but also, show up to work every day, punctuality, soft skills, respect for diversity, problem solving, decision making, safety, integrity, and how to be successful

27. Each apprenticeship program has a standard which lays out the OJT and curriculum • The curriculum focuses on a specific skill • Example: • Blueprint reading for Welders 40 • Welding Principles 40 • Oxyfuel Operations 40 • Arc Welding Operations 40 • Reading Schematics and Symbols 40 • Mathematics in the plant 40 • Making Measurements 40 • Metals in the Plant 40 • Nonmetals in the Plant 40 • Troubleshooting Skills 40 • Industrial Safety and Health 50 • Total minimum hours 450 Hrs

28. Apprenticeships are now in all 9 Facilities • ASP- Cabinet Maker, Computer Operator, Baker (Bake Produce), Cook, Electrostatic Powder Coating Tech, Fabricator-Assembler Metal Prod, Housekeeper, Maintenance Repairer to Building, Painter Com/Res, Plumber, Refrigeration, Air Condition Mechanic, Screen Printer, Welding, and Electrician • CCF-Fabricator-Assembler Metal Prod and Welding combination • FDCF-Cooking, Painter, Electrician • ICIW-Cook, Painter, Electrician • IMCC- Baker (Bake Produce), Cook, Housekeeper, Electrician • ISP- Cabinet Maker, Cook, Housekeeper • MPCF-Cabinet Maker, Painter, Welding, Electrician • NCCF- Cabinet Maker, Cook, Fabricator-Assembler Metal Prod, Maintenance Repairer to Build, Welding combination • NCF-Computer Operator, Material Coordinator, Electrician

29. Why Hire Returning Citizen with and Education and Apprenticeship? • Well trained in a specific skill and curriculum under the Standards of the USDOL Certification! • Trained in Lock-out Tag-out, machine guarding, the right to know (SDS) and more • Iowa Tax Credit (Hand out)

31. The Challenges of Hiring Don’t pass drug screen 8% Won’t accept the wage and/or shift 11% Don’t pass skill testing 18% Don’t meet company-specific requirements or client approval Don’t pass a background screening 21% 38% 4% Remainder of candidates under consideration.

32. Iowa’s Apprenticeship Program – http://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/breaking-the-cycle-program-gives-offenders-education-and-second-chance Work Opportunity Tax Credit – www.iowaworkforcedevelopment.gov/work-opportunity-tax-credit

33. Thank You Tim Diesburg Iowa Department of Corrections Apprenticeship Coordinator 406 N High Street Anamosa, IA. 52205 319-462-3504 Ext 2297 tim.diesburg@iowa.gov Questions?