Community Partners | Department of Corrections

The Last Mile

Mission
The Last Mile (TLM) unlocks the human and economic potential of justice-impacted people through education and technology training.

Partnership
In April of 2024, The Last Mile, in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Correction, launched an innovative technical skills program in the John J. Moran Medium Security Correctional. The Web Development Program teaches students to create websites and full-stack web applications using modern technologies, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, react, Node, Express, and MongoDB.

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Reentry Campus Program (RCP)

Mission
The Reentry Campus Program provides currently and formerly incarcerated individuals with an affordable pathway to accredited postsecondary education and certification programs that are infused with the reentry process.

Partnership
The Reentry Campus Program (RCP) equips incarcerated students with academic counseling, study materials, and guidance to prepare for DANTES Subject Standardized Tests (DSST) in 38 subject areas. RCP empowers participants through education, mentorship, and support, enabling successful reintegration into society while reducing recidivism.

RCP's Discharge Planner provides personalized counseling, including academic advising, career guidance, and connections to community resources. Participants also develop a professional portfolio highlighting their skills, achievements, and educational progress.

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Building Futures

Mission Statement
“Our Mission is to meet employer need for skilled workers through Registered Apprenticeship, creating an equitable path to family-sustaining careers for Rhode Islanders.”

Partnership
“Building Futures Inside provides hands-on construction training and classroom learning to people incarcerated at the ACI. Upon their release, Building Futures supports their transition to our community-based pre-apprenticeship program and placement in a Building and Construction Trades registered apprenticeship program, removing significant barriers to stable, family-sustaining employment that formerly incarcerated Rhode Islanders encounter.”

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Vantage Point, Inc

Mission
Our mission is to help you when you are dealing with mood or anxiety disorders, trauma, addiction, or interpersonal violence. We strive to build on your resilience, with supportive services, evidence-based treatment modalities provided by licensed and experienced professionals, who will meet you “where you are” in your decision to create a new perspective for your life.

Partnership
Since 2018 the Phoenix Project, an evidence-based prison reentry program, has worked with moderate to high risk offenders, to develop, and implement, enhanced life skills to facilitate healthy lifestyles, families, and careers. Providing access to employers, apprenticeship programs, and educators, while incarcerated, improves understanding of the goals and pathways required for success. Reducing recidivism by managing their mood, health, relationships, decision making, and organizational skills helps build a strong workforce, confidence, and safer community.

Batterers’ Intervention Program
Since 1999 Vantage Point has conducted the RI state certified Batterers’ Intervention Program behind the walls and in the community. Providing BIP groups in prison builds a foundation for understanding the multiple factors that lead to serious crimes against significant others. Developing a skill set to manage mood, improve decision making, and reduce familial violence is complex but possible. For many, rehabilitation starts in prison.

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Phoenix Odyssey

Mission
Phoenix Odyssey provides pre and post release education, support and recovery services for people who are justice involved to facilitate successful transition and reintegration to their communities, and significantly reduce recidivism.

Partnership
Phoenix Odyssey and RIDOC have been working in a partnership to offer the justice involved population programs that reduce recidivism and support success. These programs include access to Civil Legal Advisors, mental health and substance misuse treatment, financial management, health and wellness, entrepreneurship, access to accredited career programs, peer navigators, and a speakers’ bureau.

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Man Up, Inc

Mission
To provide a broad range of unique workforce development and higher educational opportunities, resources, and support services to formerly incarcerated men of color, who have not been afforded the opportunity to aspire to more progressive goals; while simultaneously addressing the social, financial and legal issues that create barriers to employment and education.

Partnership
Man Up, Inc and the RIDOC share a mutual commitment to ensuring that offenders released into the communities have a comprehensive transition plan in place which includes a strong community-based organization that has the capacity to carry out both agencies goals, objectives, and policies.

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NEADS Inc.

Mission
NEADS World Class Service Dogs change lives.

Partnership
NEADS breeds, raises, trains, and matches World Class Service Dogs with children and adults, including veterans, who are deaf or have a physical disability, as well as children with autism and other developmental disabilities. NEADS Assistance Dogs are partnered with professionals in the classroom, ministry, hospital, and courthouse settings. NEADS has partnered with the Rhode Island Department of Correction since 2005, when the Prison PUP Program launched at John J. Moran Medium Security prison. Since that time, approximately 200 inmates have participated as handlers and 300 dogs have passed through the program at JJ Moran (as of 2024). NEADS is thankful for the dedication and support of the prison staff that is instrumental in ensuring the program runs smoothly.

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