Please join the East Tennessee State University Ballad Health Strong BRAIN Institute as we welcome Dr. C. Allen Gorman and Dr. Sarah Tucker, University of Alabama at Birmingham, who will be our guest presenters at the October Resilience Presentation Series on October 30, 2024, at 12 p.m. (Eastern). They will be presenting Breaking the Cycle of Incarceration Through Trauma-Informed Employment Practices. The Zoom presentation is free; however, registration is required.
"Formerly incarcerated individuals (FIIs) face many obstacles to obtaining and maintaining employment. In this presentation, we will review the interdisciplinary literature on the employment of FIIs, and we will summarize and integrate trauma-informed principles to make trauma-informed recommendations for each phase of the employment life cycle: recruitment, selection, onboarding, development, and retention. In reviewing the literature on FII employment, we find that a common theme across the relevant disciplines is a striking need for meaningful and trauma-supportive employment, a concept we term redemptive employment. Also, from our review, the social networks of FIIs and system-level solutions involving community engagement emerge as a critical factor to addressing the FII employment gap. In addition, we will review some novel public-private partnership programs that have shown some promise for increasing FII employment, and thus, reducing FII recidivism. Practical trauma-informed recommendations for organizations wanting to hire FIIs and avenues for future research on the employment of FIIs will also be discussed."
We hope to see you there!
Date: October 30, 2024
Time: 12-1:30 p.m. (Eastern)
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