Know Your Rights: California’s Fair Chance Act
Know Your Rights flyer from Legal Aid at Work provides an overview of job seekers’ rights
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Fair Chance Act Toolkit
This 2020 Toolkit from Legal Aid at Work helps job seekers with criminal records
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Clean Slate Remedies
This 2020 flyer from East Bay Community Law Center provides an overview of clean slate remedies available for formerly incarcerated people.
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Best Practices For Asking Rising Scholars Students On Campus About Their Prior Incarceration Status
The California Community Colleges are increasingly striving to collect data about the number of formerly incarcerated students on their campuses. Data collection can raise privacy concerns and may cause tension in the relationship between Rising Scholars students and the college. This collection of successful practices may help Rising Scholars programs navigate this challenging terrain.
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2019 MOU between CDCR and Community Colleges
Memorandum of Understanding between CDCR and local community colleges providing face-to-face instruction.
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Correspondence Strategies
This toolkit contains recommendations for colleges transitioning to correspondence packet delivery during the pandemic.
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Supporting Formerly Incarcerated Students During the Pandemic
This toolkit contains strategies provided by formerly incarcerated students for supporting them during the pandemic.
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Guided Pathways for Students in Jail
This toolkit provides strategies and tips for serving students incarcerated in local county jails.
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Sample CDCR Student Enrollment Packet
Solano Collage’s fall 2021 enrollment packet contains course descriptions, pathways, and enrollment documents for incarcerated students.
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Campaign for College Opportunity Possibility Report
This report describes the demographics of California’s incarcerated and paroled populations and identified five challenges to help people move from prison to college.