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Is NIMBY Inevitable? informs elected officials, correctional leaders, and the general public about the problems facing halfway houses and community correctional facilities. The document identifies community backlash and assists correctional professionals as they navigate these sensitive issues.

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Demystifying Community Corrections: Educating the Public offers a different approach through which to explain community corrections to important segments of the community and to the broader public.

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Volunteers: How to Find, Train and Manage Them emphasizes the particular assets and pitfalls of managing volunteers in a criminal justice setting and suggests approaches and training to make volunteer programs effective.

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Creating the Community Connection: A Training Module is designed for trainers in the field of community corrections.

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Re-Entry’s Indispensable Tool: An Effective Advisory Committee is aimed at helping correctional practitioners and others in the criminal justice field to work more closely with community needs related to re-entry. This document is an invaluable resource that helps to connect the advisory committees’ expertise with the concerns of the general public.

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Reentry Employment: Making Business a Partner explores blending criminal justice and business perspectives for overcoming challenges to offender employment. It offers tips for small business and community involvement getting ex-offenders back to work.

By Mary K. Shilton, Margot Lindsay with Patrick Vail

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