Award Information
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2014, $520,954)
The Second Chance Act of 2007 (Pub. L. 110-199) provides a comprehensive response to the increasing number of incarcerated adults and juveniles who are released from prison, jail, and juvenile residential facilities and returning to communities. The Second Chance Act will help ensure that the transition individuals make from prison, jail, or juvenile residential facilities to the community is successful and promotes public safety. Section 115 of the Second Chance Act authorizes federal awards to states, units of local government, territories, and federally recognized Indian tribes to provide technology career training to persons confined in state prisons, local jails, and juvenile residential facilities.
The goal of the Second Chance Act Technology Careers Training Demonstration Projects for Incarcerated Adults and Juveniles is to increase the post-release employability of offenders in related technology-based jobs and career fields. The objective of the program is to establish and provide technology career training programs for incarcerated adults and juveniles during the 6-18 month period before release from a prison, jail, or juvenile facility.
This grant will expand on an already established program called YOLO (You Only Live Once) by incorporating a technology career program. The YOLO-Tech Training program is comprehensively designed to help and serve 35 youth by bringing resources available from a variety of stakeholders, pre- and post-release, to juveniles leaving the system in an effort to encourage a smooth and productive transition into society post release.
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