Revolutionary Reads: WA Department of Corrections Reentry (Online)

Join representatives from Graduated Reentry, Community Parenting, Reentry Navigator, Community Supervision, and iCoach to learn more about how these Department of Corrections programs support incarcerated individuals upon release.

The Department of Corrections has many pathways to assist incarcerated individuals to successfully transition to the community. 

Community Parenting Alternative and Graduated Reentry offer a means for the incarcerated individual to serve a portion of their total confinement sentence in the community on electronic home monitoring. These programs focus on attending targeted programming and treatment and working and or pursuing an education.

A Reentry Center offers the opportunity to serve the remainder of your total confinement sentence in a structured facility while being able to work or attend vocational/educational programming in the community. A Reentry Navigator is assigned to assist the individual by providing essential need items as well as helping navigate through systems to obtain resources. 

Some individuals will have community supervision post-release, whether they released from a RC, prison facility or EHM. Individualized Community Oriented Accountability Collaborative Help (iCoach) Transition and Resource Specialists provide reentry services to individuals transferring from prison to community supervision.

These services include wraparound meetings scheduled 30 days prior to the Earned Release Date. These meetings are the first phase of frontloading resources, submitting referrals to services, establishing the needs of the individual, and building collaboration between all parties to assist the individual in successful reentry. All individuals are eligible for housing voucher assistance if unable to pay for transitional housing. Once the individual releases from a facility, onto Community Supervision, the CCO is there to provide further Reintegration Support by increased contacts which are comprised of assisting, advocating, and coach that is trauma-informed.

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Revolutionary Reads is an annual community reads program with the goal of galvanizing the SW Washington community to read the same book on a topic of revolutionary importance. Revolutionary is defined as “involving or causing a complete and dramatic change” and/or “radically new or innovative; outside or beyond established procedure, principles, etc.”

In partnership with The Foundation Washington, 2024’s program focuses on the challenge of reentry into society following incarceration. This program will explore the experiences of individuals reintegrating into community upon release. 

Free copies of the book FREE: Two Years, Six Lives and the Long Journey Home by Lauren Kessler, will be available at all FVRLibraries locations in March 2024 (eBook also available on Overdrive). FREE won the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2023 Nautilus Silver Award for Criminal Justice.  

The Foundation Washington’s mission is to restore and prepare. The Foundation Washington is the stepping stones the youth can use to rise into their greatness and the landing zone reintegrating individuals can lean on upon release. Learn more about The Foundation Washington at https://www.thefoundationwa.org/.

Revolutionary Reads is made possible by generous support from the FVRL Foundation. Visit their website: https://fvrlfoundation.org/.