The Re-Entry Start-Up Guide: Mapping Your Way Through the Free World Maze

The perfect street-level re-entry guide for making smart transition decisions. Helps ex-offenders remain positive, focused, and entrepreneurial as they both map and navigate the often confusing and overlapping maze of re-entry programs and services available through a jungle of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and faith-based groups. Jam-packed with self-tests, checklists, and exercises, this pocket guide is designed to help ex-offenders make wise re-entry decisions in any community relating to:

documentation

housing

employment

transportation

food

clothing

health/wellness

mental health

substance abuse

recreation/leisure

education

finance/banking

mentoring

veterans’ services

Includes special sections on rap sheets, references, forgiveness letters, community networks, and gateway re-entry resources. Insightful, unconventional, and interactive, it may well become the ex-offender’s best friend for surviving and thriving during the first 90 days after release!