The CT Children with Incarcerated Parents (CIP) initiative is hosting an upcoming training webinar for current and future educators:
What About the Kids?
How to Support Children with Incarcerated Parents in Education Settings
Reflect on current practices for teaching youth impacted by the incarceration of a parent or close family member and learn about how the CT CIP initiative supports students in and out of the classroom.
The event will take place on Wednesday, December 11th from 6:45 – 8:00 pm.
There is no cost to attend. Advance registration is required. Secure your spot HERE.
This Giving Tuesday, the IMRP would like to highlight one of its initiatives that provides a direct benefit to students at the University of Connecticut – Hartford Campus.
The CT Children with Incarcerated Parents (CIP) initiative has provided more than $15k of scholarship funds to students impacted by the incarceration of a close family member.
The scholarship awards up to $1,500 per academic semester to chosen applicants in any field of study and are renewable for a maximum of six semesters in total.
Donations are accepted through the UConn Giving website and all donations go directly to deserving students and help them focus on their education and college engagement by alleviating the financial burden of the cost of attendance.
Hear from previous recipients and learn more about the program on the CIP website.
Hear from previous scholarship recipients and learn more about this program on the CIP website.
The event will take place Wednesday, Nov. 6th, from 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm at UConn Law School’s Starr Reading Room, located at 55 Elizabeth Street, Hartford.
Lunch will be served.
There is no cost to attend. dvance RSVPs are required.
For five days, from October 21st through the 25th, policy makers, educators, correctional staff, advocacy groups and other participants gathered in cities across Connecticut for Expanding Access: The Future of Second Chance Pell Education in Connecticut.
The week began at UConn Storrs where Dr. Jane Gordon, Professor of Political Science and Social and Cultural Inquiry, welcomed attendees and guest speakers from Minnesota’s Transformation and Reentry through Education and Community (TREC) program. A working lunch session posed the question,”What can UConn Storrs unique contribute to a statewide higher education in prison program?”
Leaders of Minnesota’s innovative program Transformation and Reentry through Education and Community (TREC) share their findings with Storrs faculty, staff, and invited guests
Day 2 moved to the Hartford Club, a block from the IMRP’s home at the School of Public Policy, UConn Hartford.
Welcome remarks were provided by IMRP director Andrew Clark, UCONN College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Dean Bandana Purkayastha, Chief Executive Officer of CT State Capital College Duncan Harris, and State Representative Toni E. Walker of the Connecticut General Assembly.
See the slideshow for images from the day.
Day 3 moved to Yale University and featured Connecticut State Senator Gary Winfield offering opening remarks along with an impactful panel, “Pathways to Reentry: Key Considerations for Justice-Impacted Students.”
IMRP staff members Santana Miller, Irvine Peck’s-Agaya, and Andrew Clark pose outside of Yale University’s Dwight Hall Commons with TREC presenter Dr. Soohee Ruthanne Kim (2nd from left)
Family Reentry / CRJ hosted Thursday’s event in Bridgeport which included a panel, “Connecting Higher Education Programs with Reentry and Career Services.”
Panelists in Bridgeport on Day 4 of Expanding Access
A small group of invitees gathered for a final morning session at UConn Hartford to wrap up the week with additional learnings and to discuss next steps.
A final, small-group working session was held at UConn Hartford on Friday, Oct. 25th
The IMRP would like to thank its partners, collaborators, invited guests, and attendees for contributing to this important conversation, especially visitors from TREC who traveled the state to share their work multiple times in front of various stakeholders.
“In our view, the restoration of Pell rights is the single largest federal intervention into our prisons in our lifetimes,” summarized Undersecretary Daniel Karpowitz, OPM CJPPD. “This is the dawn of a new day for this work in Connecticut.”
For five days, from October 21st through the 25th, policy makers, educators, correctional staff, advocacy groups and other participants gathered in cities across Connecticut for Expanding Access: The Future of Second Chance Pell Education in Connecticut.
The week began at UConn Storrs where Dr. Jane Gordon, Professor of Political Science and Social and Cultural Inquiry, welcomed attendees and guest speakers from Minnesota’s Transformation and Reentry through Education and Community (TREC) program. A working lunch session posed the question,”What can UConn Storrs unique contribute to a statewide higher education in prison program?”
Leaders of Minnesota’s innovative program Transformation and Reentry through Education and Community (TREC) share their findings with Storrs faculty, staff, and invited guests
Day 2 moved to the Hartford Club, a block from the IMRP’s home at the School of Public Policy, UConn Hartford.
Welcome remarks were provided by IMRP director Andrew Clark, UCONN College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Associate Dean Bandana Purkayastha, Chief Executive Officer of CT State Capital College Duncan Harris, and State Representative Toni E. Walker of the Connecticut General Assembly.
See the slideshow for images from the day.
Day 3 moved to Yale University and featured Connecticut State Senator Gary Winfield offering opening remarks along with an impactful panel, “Pathways to Reentry: Key Considerations for Justice-Impacted Students.”
IMRP staff members Santana Miller, Irvine Peck’s-Agaya, and Andrew Clark pose outside of Yale University’s Dwight Hall Commons with TREC presenter Dr. Soohee Ruthanne Kim (2nd from left)
Family Reentry / CRJ hosted Thursday’s event in Bridgeport which included a panel, “Connecting Higher Education Programs with Reentry and Career Services.”
Panelists in Bridgeport on Day 4 of Expanding Access
A small group of invitees gathered for a final morning session at UConn Hartford to wrap up the week with additional learnings and to discuss next steps.
A final, small-group working session was held at UConn Hartford on Friday, Oct. 25th
The IMRP would like to thank its partners, collaborators, invited guests, and attendees for contributing to this important conversation, especially visitors from TREC who traveled the state to share their work multiple times in front of various stakeholders.
“In our view, the restoration of Pell rights is the single largest federal intervention into our prisons in our lifetimes,” summarized Undersecretary Daniel Karpowitz, OPM CJPPD. “This is the dawn of a new day for this work in Connecticut.”
In support of OPM’s Criminal Justice Planning and Policy Division (CJPPD), the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy (IMRP) at UConn’s School of Public Policy, is excited to welcome representatives of the Minnesota Transformation and Reentry through Education and Community (TREC), one of the most effectivemodels of Second Chance Pell, to Connecticut for a series of events and conversations Oct. 21st – 24th.
During their visit, organization directors will highlight their pioneering work with Second Chance Pell to a variety of Connecticut stakeholders. Participants will share current initiatives in Connecticut’s own criminal justice and education landscape and the potential expansion of efforts among Connecticut’s private and public institutions of higher learning.
Day 2 of this event series, hosted by the IMRP and to be held near UConn Hartford’s campus, is open to the public with registration currently open and available. There is no fee to attend although space is limited and advance registration is required.
This open opportunity will take place Tuesday, October 22, 2024, at the Hartford Club, located at 46 Prospect Street in Hartford, CT from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm.The agenda will cover a range of practical topics, from administration, policies in corrections and higher education, to federal funding. The heart of these discussions will be future-focused, aligning a shared mission, vision, and purpose, along with metrics that reflect our core values. These efforts will further inform needs assessment study for the delivery of postsecondary education programs in correctional facilities as tasked by HB 5127.
Interested participants may utilize theREGISTRATION LINK to secure their spot or forward to peers or colleagues who may be interested in attending
Please reach out toIMRP@uconn.edu with additional questions.
Registration is now open for the Connecticut Sentencing Commission’s annual symposium to be held Thursday, November 21st, 2024 at UConn School of Law from 8:30 am – 4:30 pm.
The focus of this year’s symposium is pretrial justice in Connecticut. Featured speakers from Connecticut and from surrounding states will review current pretrial release and detention policies, best practices from other jurisdictions, and the opportunities for reform to promote justice, reduce disparities, and enhance community safety.
There is no fee to attend. However, advance registration is required. Interested attendees can register HERE. For accommodations or additional questions, please contact thomas.j.dowd@uconn.edu.
The Reentry Collaborative and the Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy discuss voting rights for Incarcerated and returning citizens.
Participants includes:
-Earl Bloodworth, Director of Bridgeport Mayor’s Initiative for Reentry Affairs
-State Senator Gary Winfield
-Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim
-Bridgeport City Councilman Ernie Newton
James Jeter, Yale Prison Education Initiative and Co-Director of Unlock the Vote
-Andrew Clark IMRP Director
-Dr. Zelda Roland, Director of Yale Prison Education Initiative
-Alex Tsarkov, IMRP staff and Executive director of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission
-Kelan Lyons, CT Mirror reporter
-State Representative Christopher Rosario
-Shannel Evans Democratic Registrar of Voters City of New Haven
-Don Robinson Workforce Specialist, Greater New Haven Reentry Round Table Co-Chair
-Robert Hebert SR.Vice President of Business Development and Re-entry Affairs Co-Chair of Bridgeport Reentry Council
The Northeastern study concluded the CTRP3’s work led to a statistically significant reduction in racial profiling by police departments across Connecticut. As a result, IMRP Associate Director and CTRP3 project manager Ken Barone has fielded calls from and worked with police departments from nearby Rhode Island, Maine, and Washington DC as well as Nevada, Colorado, California and Oregon to develop and implement programs to reduce racial profiling by police.
“In 2021, CTRP3program staff testified before Congress about the program and the program was subsequently promoted as a model for state reforms by two of the major national traffic safety organization: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the Governors Highway Safety Association.” Barone says. “These activities dramatically increased the visibility of CTRP3, and the program staff has since provided guidance to 10 additional states regarding policing reform initiatives.”
