The Beginner’s Guide to Addiction Peer Recovery for Justice-Involved Individuals is a comprehensive resource designed to empower those impacted by addiction and the justice system. This guide offers insight into addiction peer recovery support, with a focus on supporting justice-impacted individuals through accessible, community-centered approaches.
Please join us for the Project Mend Launch Event, celebrating the release of the fourth issue of Mend, an annual publication featuring writing and art by people impacted by the criminal legal system. It includes a Zoom option.
Now in its fourth year, Project Mend is a collaboration between Syracuse University and the Center for Community Alternatives that brings together incarcerated writers, formerly incarcerated writers, and family members and to produce a print and digital publication.
At the event, we will celebrate the publication while also…
Hey RCHEP Community,
Have you learned with FICGN yet? Join us tomorrow for the last HEP Orientation Learning & Feedback Session, where we'll explore the impact of K-12 education on higher ed in prison and reentry success in our "Lessons from Local Leaders" workshop.
Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Time: 11am ET/8am PT
Register and Attend:…
Hey RCHEP Community,
Only two sessions left in FICGN's weekly series, “HEP Orientation Tuesdays: Learning & Feedback Sessions”. Join us next week as we explore Undue Familiarity in Higher Ed in Prison Programs in our "Crossing the Lines" workshop.
Date: Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Time: 11am ET/8am PT
Register and Attend: https://us06web.zoom.us/…
A New Path: Deportation to Guatemala is a new guide from the Education Justice Project that provides clear, practical information for individuals facing deportation to Honduras.
The guide covers:
- What to expect upon arrival in Guatemala, including how to stay safe;
- Information on housing, employment, education, and more;
- Practical tips for navigating the return and reintegration…
Effective December 5, 2025, the reentry guides created by THEI, EJP, and NYPL are all available and searchable on JSTOR Access in Prison. There is a new link on the home page to these resources, so even if full access to JSTOR isn't available inside, if the JSTOR icon is loaded, anyone using the correctional version of JSTOR can access the materials.
We are seeing close to 2,000 searches daily, which is significant for items that exist outside of the traditional search bar. We are excited to be able to amplify the work being done in reentry, and are hopeful we can expand to…
The Cornell Prison Education Program will be hosting a one-day, pre-NCHEP research symposium designed for researchers and practitioners who study or aspire to study higher education in prison.
This day-long event will be held in conjunction with the 2025 NCHEP conference on Wednesday, April 8th, 2026, at the Hilton Cleveland Downtown hotel (connected to the Cleveland Convention…
The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) brings together leaders from midwestern states to develop cost-savings opportunities, generate collaborative solutions to challenges and opportunities in higher education, and promote postsecondary alignment with workforce needs.
Since the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students under the FAFSA Simplification Act, colleges and universities across the country are exploring meaningful ways to design, launch, and scale high-quality Prison Education Programs (PEPs). As part of MHEC’s commitment to elevating…
A New Path: Deportation to Honduras is a new guide from the Education Justice Project that provides clear, practical information for individuals facing deportation to Honduras.
The guide covers:
- What to expect upon arrival in Honduras, including how to stay safe;
- Information on housing, employment, education, and more;
- Practical tips for navigating the return and reintegration…
Developed by the Life University Center for Compassion, Integrity, and Secular Ethics (CCISE), this resource manual offers guidelines for practice and trains readers to use a secular ethics approach to cultivating personal, social, and environmental flourishing. Compassionate Integrity Training (CIT) is a multi-part training program that cultivates basic human values as skills for the purpose of increasing individual, social, and environmental flourishing. By covering a range of skills from self-regulation and self-compassion to compassion for others and engagement with complex…
