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Fair Chance Employment
Partner with employers to implement “ban the box” and second-chance hiring, expand skills training, and open pathways into living-wage careers.
Second Chance Act aligned
Calbert Foundation Reentry Framework
A unified housing, employment, and healing framework that reduces recidivism and homelessness by removing structural barriers facing people returning from incarceration—starting in Indiana and Maryland, and serving communities nationwide.
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Purpose
Calbert Foundation exists to reduce recidivism and economic exclusion by creating a clear pathway from incarceration to stable housing, fair-chance employment, record relief, and long-term community belonging.
Our framework is informed by the federal Second Chance Act, which aims to reduce recidivism, increase public safety, and help states remove barriers across jobs, housing, treatment, and family reunification.
Core Impact Pillars
Every Calbert Foundation program aligns to at least one of these pillars.
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Record Relief & Expungement
Connect residents to record-clearing clinics, ID restoration, and legal navigation so that a past mistake doesn’t become a permanent sentence.
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Reentry Stabilization
Link people to transitional and permanent housing, mental health services, and wrap-around supports that keep families together and reduce returns to prison.
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Public Safety & Community Outcomes
Safer communities through lower reincarceration, reduced homelessness, and stronger civic participation grounded in evidence-based reentry policy.
Federal & State Application
Calbert Foundation helps communities make the Second Chance Act real on the ground— with tailored playbooks for federal partners and for our priority states of Indiana and Maryland.
National Second Chance Blueprint
A high-level framework that aligns local programs with federal Second Chance Act goals, emphasizing jobs, housing, treatment, and family reunification.
- Grant-ready narrative language for DOJ / HUD.
- Logic model for housing + employment outcomes.
- Evidence snapshots you can plug into proposals.
Indiana Reentry & Homelessness Framework
Indiana-specific data, partners, and policy commitments supporting reentry housing, workforce pipelines, and ID restoration.
- County-level reentry and shelter referral pathways.
- Fair-chance employer & training provider list.
- Grant boilerplate tailored to Indiana agencies.
Maryland Housing & Reentry Framework
A roadmap for leveraging state programs and local Continuums of Care to stabilize housing and reduce reincarceration in Maryland.
- Maryland-aligned housing & reentry priorities.
- Templates for MOUs with jails, shelters, and employers.
- Language you can reuse in state and federal grants.
Why This Matters
63%
Lower chance of returning to prison*
When people leaving incarceration secure stable employment and housing, their likelihood of returning to prison drops dramatically—protecting families, strengthening neighborhoods, and improving public safety.
*Illustrative composite based on national research; local results will vary.
Evidence-Based Reentry
We align our work with national research and the federal Second Chance Act so that every donation and every partnership moves the needle on real outcomes.