Expand Your Talent Pool | Consider Hiring Returning Citizens

This Manufacturing Growth Alliance (MGA) course will feature experts from the Michigan Department of Corrections and Offender Success to share how Returning Citizens (those who have returned to the community after serving time) can be a great resource to alleviate workforce challenges.

Returning citizens face many barriers as they return to the community from incarceration.  Through the efforts of the Offender Employment & Opportunities Unit and the Offender Success Administrative Agencies, many of these barriers are reduced.

The Offender Employment & Opportunities Unit works with employers across the state to put returning citizens back to work in jobs that can provide self-sufficiency. The Offender Success Administrative Agencies provide many supportive and wrap around services to help these individuals adjust to life after incarceration and get back on their feet.

In this presentation, you will learn about what these programs have to offer. How the programs support returning citizens as they…