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Parole, CareerLink Work Together to Help Reentrants Find Work

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June 15, 2021 12:00 AM
By: DOC Staff

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On May 17, Community Reentry Parole Agent Amy Ramiza met with staff from CareerLink's Mobile Link Bus at the public library in Mount Carmel. The collaboration was designed to help unemployed and under-employed reentrants build a resume and begin job searching.

Central PA's Mobile Link Bus travels the region, bringing CareerLink services where they are most needed. Ramiza leverages this important community resource to facilitate connections between reentrants who are unemployed or under-employed and CareerLink staff in hopes that the reentrants can find employment that will help them successfully participate in the conditions of their parole. Ramiza is working with Robert Eddy and Craig Kurtz of The Link to make this a monthly event held in different locations around the Williamsport District.

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Gainful employment plays a key role in parole, and failure to secure employment is a key risk factor.  Reentry agents are trained to target all risk factors to help ensure success of each reentrant on parole and in their life as a returning citizen.

Also in attendance that day at the CareerLink event were Reentry Parole Agent Scott Thomas from SCI Coal Township and Parole Manager Penny Sines.

CareerLink's Mobile Link staff previously hosted regular workshops at the Reentry Service Office at SCI Coal Township before COVID-19  forced the suspension of in-person visitation. It is Thomas' and Sines' hope to continue the strong working relationship with CareerLink Staff inside the rison as mitigation protocols are relaxed.


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