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UNLOCKING
EDUCATION CITYoutside FollowUP
UNLOCKING
EDUCATION
General Mission:
Research on best practices, outcomes assessment, and community
health and development relative to county incarceration.
Specific Mission:
Proof-of-concept for an in-jail adult basic education program that
serves as a screening tool for CITYoutside.
IN-JAIL SCREENING PROGRAM
Specific Mission:
Implement a prototype reentry campus for the Yellowstone County
Detention Facility using best practices for reentry to rural communities.
FollowUP
General Mission:
Provide incubator opportunities for program completers to give back to
local communities in how they live, work, and learn.
Specific Mission:
Connect CITYoutside pilot project completers with entrepreneurial,
home-ownership, and social work opportunities for continued growth.
The Yellowstone County Sheriff, Montana State University Billings, and
several local agencies have expressed interest in Jericho.
Participants pass through three phases while mentoring the cohort that
comes after them. Successful completers attain their two-year degree in a
supported field and can prove three-years of solid employment with a
CITYoutside Industry Partner. They are ready to contribute to communities.
CITYoutside Participant Phases
live work learn
YEAR ONE
Shared Cabin, Multiple Vocational Assessment College/Career Readiness
Daily Program by Hour Limited Work Schedule Health & Rehab/Counseling
Most Restrictive On campus, for campus Mentored by Year 2 Cohort
YEAR TWO
Shared Cabin, Roommate Workforce Placement Begin 2-year AA degree
Block Program 50:50 Work:Programming Health & Rehab/Counseling
Moderately Restrictive On campus, with public Mentor Yr 1, Mentored Yr 3
YEAR THREE
Solo Cabin/Apartment Workforce leaders Finish AA Degree
Weekly Program 75:25 Work:Programming Health & Rehab/Counseling
Least Restrictive Can work off campus Mentor Yr 2, Reentry plan
CITYoutside Needs and Opportunities
live work learn
NEEDS
Campus-style environment Industry partner and Community partners to
with multiple outbuildings investment in sustainable develop and deliver
and central facility. and profitable businesses. curricula and services.
OPPORTUNITIES
Purchase of materials to Purchase land, then MSUB City College, Cal
build cabins located on develop home-grown State S.B., Rimrock,
target property. renewable energy company Reentry Task Force, et al.
Notes
Construction/maintenance Property has main building, In-person and distance
are part of Year 1 cohort’s development plan, spaces education begin in the jail
on-campus work. for cabins and businesses. as a screening process.
Beta site: RV Park (to generate revenue) and cabins (campus housing)
MSUB
Big Sky
College of City College
Development
Education
Focus:
Defining the Unlocking Education in-jail screening program
Identifying the pilot project’s curricular goals and lesson planning
Writing participant guidelines and handbook
Outlining efforts for implementation:
Recruitment, curricular delivery structure, and assessment
CONTACT INFO
JEREMIAH.GEE@MSUBILLINGS.EDU
570-439-9429