Pathway Home Evaluation Brief: Establishing Grant Programs Inside Correctional Facilities

• The grantees described engaging in several activities with their partners during the planning phase such as visiting correctional facilities, meeting with facility staff, developing partnerships with facility and training provider partners, and creating informational materials to share with their facility partners. They recommended meeting with facility partners and other key partners early and frequently.
• To integrate Pathway Home programs within correctional facilities, the grantees reported having to coordinate with their facility partners to understand their facility policies and to tailor their programs to each correctional facility’s preferred approach and practices.
• Grantees faced challenges—including COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns and correctional facility staff shortages—when implementing Pathway Home services within facilities. They worked to overcome challenges by improving their communication with facility partners and adapting their service delivery plans, such as by moving to virtual services.
• Despite obstacles, the majority of grantees and subgrantees reported providing case management services (82 percent), and grantees provided pre-release employment services such as developing individualized career plans and identifying employment barriers. The majority of grantees provided job and work readiness training (82 percent), and a little over half provided occupational and vocational skills training (59 percent).

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