DANNON PROJECT
2324 5th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203 www.dannonproject.org

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Organizations Filed Purposes: To provide reentry and other transitional supportive services to several vulnerable populations including unemployed, underemployed, uneducated and undereducated, adult and young adults who have been in conflict with the law, pregnant and parenting teens, uninsured and underinsured, and their families by reducing barriers such as homelessness or risk of becoming homeless, employment, discrimination, job training, education, behavioral health treatment, and a number of emergency supportive services.

To insure maximum utilization of resources in the geographical area of Birmingham, Jefferson and surrounding counties by employing all of the resources in the area, including but not limited to, resources available from private charitable sources and from local, state, and federal governments to assist in the development of healthy communities and lifestyles, thereby, preventing violence and other at-risk behaviors that lead to unemployment, disease, incarceration and re-incarceration, premature death and generational cycles of poverty and economic exclusion.

Young Adult Reentry Programs (serving as an RP Intermediary) and Reentry Program (Adult Reentry Program) were funded by the Department of Labor ETA; Both the Young Adults and Adult programs provide reentry services to persons who have been in conflict with the law or who have served time in prison or jail. The Young Adult Intermediary Reentry Program (RP) serves as both a diversion and reentry program for young adults, male and female, between the ages of 18-24. Outcomes included 9% recidivism rate overall; 90% mentoring rate; $9.14 average hourly earnings; 86% Entered Employment Rate; 88% Employment Retention Rate; and, 85% Credential Attainment Rate. This program serves Jefferson, Walker, Calhoun, Montgomery, Shelby, Counties across Alabama; and, 5 counties in the Pee Dee Region of South Carolina.

The Adult Reentry program is funded by DOLETA. The RP (Reentry Program) serves male and female non-violent previously incarcerated persons 18-+. The participants may not have ever had a sex crime other than prostitution. This program provides reentry services funded under the Training to Work (9), and RP(2); and, RP3 (Community) federally funded grants. Services provided include case management, education, housing assistance, job placement, job readiness, financial literacy, life skills, career counseling, and career pathways establishment, mentoring, career training and certifications, wraparound supportive services. All eligible participants are referred for medical healthcare and behavioral health services. Outcomes include 100% enrollment rate, 96% participation rate, $11.14 average hourly earnings 94% Entered Employment Rate; 92% Employment Retention Rate; and, 4% Recidivism Rate.

WIOA FUNDED PROGRAMS: 1) The Youth Opportunity Careers (OSY) program includes funding and program services for participants who may or may not have been involved with the criminal justice system but are WIOA eligible. The Out of School Youth (OSY) Program provides funds for 65 Out of School WIOA eligible students to receive occupational training and certifications leading to careers in high demand and in-demand careers. Overall, the project showed much success with a 90% job placement rate, 97% Program Completion Rate, and 92% Certification Attainment. Services provided were recruitment, outreach, case management, job training, job readiness, occupational training, occupational certifications, coordination of behavioral health services and medical health services, mentoring, leadership, and job placement. CAPTE Supportive Services - this is a new grant to provide case management and supportive services to Adults, Dislocated Workers, and OSY Youth completing their training through the career center and are referred by the Career Center workers across the CAPTE service Area. CAPTE includes Walker, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Blount, and Chilton Counties. The program requires us to provide services to 500 people over a two-year period. In 2019, we provided services to 397 individuals.

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