Guide to Mentoring Former Prisoners

Public/Private Ventures has released (back in November, actually) a really thorough guide for reentry programs providing mentoring services to adults who are exiting the prison system and heading back into their communities. From the P/PV website:

"...this manual draws on the experience of the 11 sites involved in P/PV's Ready4Work prisoner reentry demonstration, as well as established best practices in the mentoring field, to provide guidelines for practitioners who are interested in developing a mentoring program to support former prisoners and enhance the effectiveness of other reentry services, such as employment and case management services.

"The guide was originally published by the US Department of Labor in November 2007 under the title Mentoring Ex-Prisoners: A Guide for Prisoner Reentry Programs. However, because of growing interest in establishing mentoring programs as part of larger reentry efforts around the country, P/PV decided to reissue the guide, along with updated information related to P/PV's evaluation of Ready4Work."

The PDF of the guidebook can be downloaded here: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/316_publication.pdf