How it Works

When justice-involved individuals enroll in the Baltimore Ex-Offender Reentry Employment Program, we provide them with both hard and soft skills training, opportunities to earn certifications, resume and interview preparation, and career support. For justice-involved individuals, our work helps to provide a valuable support system that supports them in during the difficult and challenging process of reentry.

The Impact

The Work First Foundation and our partners have graduated over 1000 justice-involved individuals and have placed nearly 700 into employment. The recidivism rate for program graduates is consistently below the recidivism rates in Maryland and nation-wide. The BERE program gives justice-involved individuals the access to jobs and educational opportunities that they desperately need. In doing so, the BERE program has a positive impacts on not only their lives, but their friends and family, the cost to taxpayers, low-income neighborhoods, and employment rates.

FACTS AND NUMBERS

last updated 8/15/19