About us
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.
Services
- Alcohol and drug treatment referrals
- Cal Fresh food assistance
- Clothes closet
- Counseling
- Expungement (record clearance)
- General assistance benefits
- Health referrals
- Healthcare coverage
- High School Completion Program
- Housing assistance/referrals
- Intake and assessment
- Medical Clinic
- Mental health referrals
- Peer mentoring
- Resources to the faith communities
- Transitional case management
Referral to community services:
- Education
- Employment
- Family reunification
- Legal services
- Vocational training