From Jail to Reintegration: Bridging the Gap

This ReintegrationToday article focuses on a Broward County, Florida program aimed at training consumer "peer bridgers" to facilitate the social integration of recently released inmates. Peer bridgers are consumers who may have been imprisoned themselves at one time. The training includes a 6-week, 90-hour course that not only prepares consumers to be peer bridgers, but can also function to train them as trainers of others.