Solutions

 

Strategies

 

FOXO believes that the following strategies are essential if we are to truly reintegrate ex-offenders into the community.

Create a real partnership between the reintegrated offender and the community that they are a part of. Let the offender know that they are a part of the community and not apart from the community.

Develop focus groups that allow the reintegrated offenders to have a real voice and input in the output of society's expectations of their social conformity through behavioral modification.

Establish and promote a resource center to provide needs assessment, resources and other immediate essentials to deter recidivism thus reducing the recidivist rate.

Advocate and establish education centers to begin the education and/or re-education of ex-offenders. Education should include skills necessary to advance in today's age of technology.

Educate and train ex-offenders to become agents of change for youth that would otherwise pursue a life of crime as a survival mechanism.

Provide venues for ex-offenders to describe their experiences and journey into a life of pain, despair, loneliness and crime.

Provide support groups for self-disclosure and dialogue with other ex-offenders who have changed their direction and thus their circumstances and vision.

Provide for employment opportunities for the ex-offenders that allow them to become viable productive members of society and increase their value as assets to their communities and their people.

Provide opportunities for the ex-offenders to be an integral part in turning our communities around by allowing them to provide education on crime, crime prevention and deterrence to the communities, schools and PTOs that they once targeted for crime using FOXO's concept that Proper Education Always Corrects Errors (PEACE).

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