Safer Monroe Area Reentry Team (SMART) strives to improve prospects for men and women reentering society from prisons and jails. SMART itself does not provide direct services. However, www.smartny.org offers information to assist and expand reentry services in Monroe County, NY, and its region. See About SMART for organizational information. Sandra Fink created the logo above.
Please note: The site serves reentering individuals and their loved ones, reentry service organizations, and reentry professionals, practitioners, and volunteers. Browse the pages containing helpful information; email us with suggestion so we can serve you better.
Click-on tabs for items below: [SMART meetings][Revolving Fund]
[Other reentry meetings][New][Training][Cephas][News][Contact].
SMART is a member of the Monroe County Reentry Task Force.
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--> SMART meetings: Usually the 2nd Thursday monthly, noon-1:30 pm, all welcome. Next meeting: 12 noon - 1:30 pm, Thursday, August 13, 2009, Church of the Ascension, 1360 Lake Ave., Rochester 14613, corner Lake Ave. & Riverside St. (just south of Kodak Park). No June 2009 meeting.
--> Revolving Fund: SMART's Revolving Fund: short-term loans up to $500 for dues-paying & non-profit members. Read, print information pages & application form.
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-->NEW LOCATION Cephas weekly support groups: Cephas is now at Church of the Ascension, 1360 Lake Ave., Rochester, NY 14613, corner of Lake Ave. & Riverside St. Mailing address: Cephas, Church of the Ascension, 2 Riverside St., 14613. Meetings, for men & women, held here. Contact: Jim Horkheimer, 585-546-7472 & cephasrochester@roadrunner.com. View & print Flyer.
--> Request for churches, mosques, & synagogues with prison outreach programs: Donald Hardaway, Jr., seeks an organization with a van and willing to assist in transporting reentrants. In part, it's to bring persons from the County Correctional Facility, (East Henrietta Road, immediately north of Monroe Community College), to local destinations. Contact Don: 585-469- 8824, dhardaway@rfriweb.org, or donaldhardawayjr@frontiernet.net.
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NEW
--> Prison Ministry Reflections: NEW prison ministry & reentry blog.
--> Law & Justice: NEW page continually in development..
--> Monroe County Reentry: NEW up-dated program information.
--> Chemical Dependency (CD) evaluation and treatment availability:
NEW -- See #3D at Resources & Services.
--> Spiritual Resources,NEW page in progress.
--> Research & the Big Picture: page completely reorganized.
--> Mentoring, Volunteering & More, NEW mentoring women information.
--> NEW links at Supporting Families: mentoring children of prisoners
& child abuse re well-being, incarceration, & reentry.
--> NEW Spiritus Christi Prison Outreach Newsletter at SMART members.
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News Briefs
-->Comprehensive criminal justice and prison reform to br subject of close examination in March 30, 2009, bi-partisan proposal by U.S. Sen. Jim Webb. Summary here.
--> Investing in Second Chances for Former Inmates pays off in Houston and Dallas, Texas. Soujourners Magazine article, July 2008.
--> March 7, 2008: Programs in county correctional facility reduce redicivism, Allegheny County, PA. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Article: item; report.
--> Reentry impacts neighborhoods. See Research and the Big Picture.
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Know Us and Contact Us
President: Craig Johnson, cjohnson@smartny.org.
Vice-President: Annette Howard
Rahsaan DeLain, Secretary
Treasurer: Dick Frey
Coordinator: Mike Bleeg, mbleegsmart@frontiernet.net.
Office: SMART, 215 Alexander St., 14607.
Phone: 585-325-7746; Fax: 585-325-7746.
Bob Seidel, SMART Communications & Research, website administrator, rseidel1@rochester.rr.com.
SMART Board: Craig Johnson, Annette Howard, Rahsaan DeLain, Dick Frey, Dick Laidlaw, and Addrain Conyers.
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