Collaboration Across Systems: Issues of Recovery and Ex-Offenders

The Welfare Peer TA Network sponsored this statewide Roundtable event that took place in Baltimore, MD from September 14-16, 2005. Attended by over 80 individuals, this Roundtable focused on developing partnerships to address the challenges associated with universal engagement for TANF clients. Partners were given the opportunity to learn strategies for developing meaningful partnerships with substance abuse treatment providers and the Department of Corrections to engage substance users and ex-offenders into work experience to better the lives of children and families.