The Reentry Resource Center offers services to formerly incarcerated Santa Clara County residents, supporting reentry efforts and building a safer community.
Vision
Build safer communities and strengthen families through successful reintegration and reentry of formerly incarcerated individuals back into Santa Clara County.
Mission
Reduce recidivism by using evidence-based practices in implementing a seamless system of services, supports, and supervision.
The County of Santa Clara Reentry Resource Center opened in San Jose in 2012 and expanded to a second location in Gilroy in 2015. The Centers strive to build safer communities by providing resources to formerly incarcerated individuals and helping them heal and reintegrate back into the community. The Centers collaborate with Community-based entities and State and County Departments such as the:
Sheriff/Department of Correction
Behavioral Health
Social Services Agency
Adult Probation
Office of the Public Defender
Ambulatory Care
Office of Supportive Housing
Office of Diversion and Reentry Services
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Faith-based community partners
Representatives of these organizations and departments reside in one building and work collaboratively to provide services to clients. Those services include referrals for mental health and substance use treatment, public benefit enrollment, counseling, health care, record expungement services, employment referrals, housing and shelter information and more.