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Welcome To Community Success Initiative

Community Success Initiative (CSI) was founded as a non-profit corporation in May 2004 with a vision to create communities where people discover their potential, set worthy goals for their lives, and take action in a positive way.  CSI also seeks  to fill a need to see personal growth and leadership principles become a recognized strategy for achieving success in the lives of everyday people, with an emphasis on men and women who are transitioning from prison and jail.

Our Focus

  1. Helping formerly incarcerated persons get back on their feet.

  2. Reducing crime in the community.

Latest edition CSI newsletter "The Hope Line" for April, May, June of 2012 -- click here to read it.

CSI Faith-based Reentry Partners Breakfast Celebration And Fund Raiser

We look forward to your being with us on Thursday May 24th, 8AM to 10:30 AM, for the CSI Faith-based Reentry Partners Breakfast Celebration And Fund Raiser. The breakfast is free, but we wlll be raising money to support the ongoing work of CSI.  Please RSVP as soon as possible so that we can get an accurate count for food.  Please pass this announcement along to others who may be interested in attending.  I have also attached this information as a one page flyer-- (click here)  feel free to pass it out or email to your network. 


The NC Second Chance Alliance

...is a statewide alliance of advocacy organizations, service providers, faith-based organizations, community leaders and interested citizens that have come together to achieve the safe and successful reintegration of adults and juveniles with criminal records by promoting policies that remove barriers to productive citizenship. Click here to visit their website.

To Build a Better Criminal Justice System

In a new publication of The Sentencing Project 25 leading scholars and practitioners have contributed essays on their strategic vision for the next 25 years of criminal justice reform. Issues addressed in the collection include racial justice strategies, linking public health and criminal justice reform, challenging the war on drugs, and the viability of fiscal pressures as a focus for reform. Click here  to read this valuable report. 

Latest addition to CSI programs - CSI Legal Services Project

Community Success Initiative is piloting a direct legal services initiative to formerly incarcerated men and women or those currently entangled in the criminal justice system. We will work to provide legal remedies such as securing a driver’s license, obtaining certificates of relief, creating and/or modifying child support orders, and occupational licenses. Click  here  to read about this important project.

Regarding our at-risk youth and their special legal needs.

Click  here  to go to information from Legal Aid of North Carolina regarding the legal needs of youth and their rights to an education. Parents and councilors, please visit this page.

 Instructions for Petition and Order of Certificate of Relief.  Under G.S. 15-A-173. Form AOC-CR-273. Click here for a pdf copy of the petition.

News! New rules regarding the hiring of the formerly incarcerated.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted to pass updated guidelines on the hiring of individuals with criminal records.  The updated guidance provides employers with greater clarity on the fair use of background checks, in order to help the vast majority of employers who are often unaware of federal civil rights laws and how criminal record based discrimination can serve as a surrogate for race based discrimination.  The guidance will also go a long way to educate jobseekers with criminal records who face tremendous challenges in navigating the expanded use of criminal background checks for employment in today’s competitive job market. Click here to read about the changes.

 

Michelle Alexander, Author of "The New Jim Crow - Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness", addresses the devastating impact that the mass incarceration of Black men is having on communities.

 

Second Chance Lobby Day a Success!

  • Read about The Second Chance Lobby Day here.
  • Second Chance Lobby Day NC Legislature video highlights! Click here.
  • Second Chance Lobby Day Press Conference. Click here.

 Please visit our CSI Blog and leave comments.

  1. For Reentry Issues and Resources, click here.

  2. For Needs and Assessment Form, click here.

  3. For Wake County Human Resource Guide-2012, click here.

  4. To read a stirring testimonial, click here.

  5. For the CSI two page brochure, click here.

  6. For recent CSI news and events, click here.

  7. For directions to CSI, click here.

  8. For the CSI Legal Services Project click here

  9. For our Newsletter Archives, click here.

  10. North Carolina Legislature Reentry bills, click here.


Contributing is easy!

Your generosity helps to continue the work of Community Success Initiative. You can use your debit or credit card to make a tax-deductible donation today!

 

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