About Measure Y

• 2.2: Overview
• 2.3: Success Stories
• 2.4: Evaluation: Why it works
  • 2.4.1: Evaluation Reports
  • 2.4.2: Best Practices
    • 2.4.2.1: Community Policing
    • 2.4.2.2: Crisis Response
    • 2.4.2.3: Gang Intervention/Prevention
    • 2.4.2.4: Family Violence Intervention
    • 2.4.2.5: JJC/OUSD Wraparound Strategy

    • Current page is 2.4.2.6: Re-entry Programs

    • 2.4.2.7: Re-entry Employment
    • 2.4.2.8: Restorative Justice
    • 2.4.2.9: Street Outreach
    • 2.4.2.10: Youth Employment
  • 2.4.4: Past Evaluation Reports
• 2.5: Oversight Info and Members
• 2.6: Partnerships
• 2.7: Sign up for our Newsletter
• 2.8: Violence Data/Stressors Report
• 2.9: Oakland Gang Prevention Plan
• 2.10: FAQ

Re-Entry for the Formerly Incarcerated (Project Choice)

The Project Choice design is based on several theories - Social Bonds theory, Strain theory and Social Learning Theory - that also inform Project Choice’s best practice principles. The following resources incorporate these best practices:

http://www.nicic.org/pubs/1998/serial643.pdf

http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/jjbulletin/9907_3/ojjdp.html

http://www.caction.org/rrt/articles/TAXMAN-OFFENDER%20AND%20REENTRY.pdf

http://dcj.state.co.us/ors/pdf/docs/WW08_022808.pdf