National Reentry Week, from April 23rd-28th 2018, ended on a strong and hopeful note. During National Reentry Week and National Second Chance Month, we reflect on the people who dedicate their work to ensuring there’s a life after prison.
On April 17th 2017, The City of New Haven Youth Services Department presented Veoci with the 2018 YSB (Youth Services Bureau) Community Partner of the Year at The Great Escape Charity Breakfast.
The work Mary Loftus has done and continues to do is emotionally taxing. However, it is abundantly clear that she is truly passionate about reentry services.
Within the next two years, the Warren A. Kimbro Reentry Project (WKRP) aims to help 320 individuals rebuild their lives after being incarcerated. This is an intensely complex task with many moving parts.
Of the 16,286 men and women released from Connecticut Department of Correction custody in 2008, 64% were rearrested within the next three years.
In the Veoci Blog, we aim not to simply provide good reading for those in the emergency management and public safety sectors, but to share too what we are learning day by day as a rapidly growing safety and operations solution.
The National Healthcare Coalition Preparedness Conference of 2017 (NHCPC) finished up just over a week ago. We followed up with Rich Smith, a Senior Solutions Associate at Veoci, who attended the conference for the first time this year.
We had a chance to catch up with Veronica Genao, Senior Account Executive at Veoci, about her time at the 65th annual International Association of Emergency Managers Conference (IAEM). She shared her favorite moments, lessons learned, and what she noticed made IAEM unique.