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City Manager Wants Funding to Extend the Parole Re-Integration Program with the Flintridge Center

Published on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 | 6:25 am
 

City Manager Steve Mermell is recommending that the City Council approve continuation of the Parole Reintegration Program run by the Flintridge Center for the remainder of this fiscal year after current funding is exhausted at the end of February.

Mermell wants to contract with the Flintridge Center for the $85,000 that would be needed to continue the program at least until June, when new funding is expected to be granted.

“If you look at the cost to incarcerate someone – that’s about $60,000 [per year] in California, real cost – and then look at the cost to help them make different kinds of decisions, it looks to me like a good investment,” said Jaylene L. Moseley, President of the Flintridge Center. “It’s definitely working.”

The Flintridge Center, located at 236 W Mountain Street in Pasadena, provides a host of services for youth and adults including those formerly incarcerated, previously gang-involved, and those most susceptible to heading towards the path of violence and incarceration.

Each year, the Center serves over 500 individuals who go to Flintridge Center to seek in transforming their lives, reaching their full potential, and becoming contributing and self-sufficient community members.

Some of its services include evidence-based life skills training, comprehensive case management, outreach and referral management, apprenticeship preparation and dispute resolution. Since April last year, the Flintridge Center has served 468 Pasadena community members through the reintegration program. Of these, eighty-one are still under case management to assist with their transition back to the community.

In April 2016, the Pasadena Police Department received a $170,000 grant from the Los Angeles County Police Chiefs Association and selected the Flintridge Center to carry out intervention, suppression and prevention work. The funding will be exhausted at the end of February.

Moseley said the Center is also currently pursuing the award of Proposition 47 grant funds which can be used to further reintegration efforts, but the grant receipt could come some time after June.

The requested funding will be good for at least five months to avoid a gap in the existing reintregration program.

“We’re working with a network of service providers and we’re actually applying for other funding that would be over the top of this funding,” Moseley said. “The idea is we want a very robust program because when we assist community members and give them the opportunity, they change the way they look at their lives and stop what they were doing.”

Moseley said the program is resulting in very positive results for Pasadena and for people who are in the reintegration program.

The Flintridge Center started focusing on a reintegration program in March 2010. To help ease the transition of formerly incarcerated community members back to society, the Center helps them set goals and make plans, assist them in availing of social services, and teach them the steps to get a driver’s license, find housing and employment, pay child support, and other necessary steps for reintegration.

For this funded period, Moseley said they have been able to achieve a small seven percent recidivism rate among their beneficiaries.

“If you look at the cost to incarcerate someone – that’s about $60,000 [per year] in California, real cost – and then look at the cost to help them make different kinds of decisions, it looks to me like a good investment,” Moseley said. “It’s definitely working.”

 

 

 

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