April is Second Chance Month
At Maryland Correctional Enterprises (MCE), we feel that knowledge truly empowers you. Our shops are the foundation of our reentry program providing important hard and soft skills that improve our program participant’s quality of life and chances for success. We augment this daily work with an ever-expanding variety of classes that can address multiple areas of interest and need.
In addition to our core classes of Employment Readiness, and Healthy Relationships, we also offer Reentry Preparation and Life Skills. We partner with the organization, Prepare, to offer assistance in developing a personal achievement packet for use at parole hearings as well as for future career plans. We offer workshops in Financial Literacy, and Mentoring & Leadership. Women can now receive Reentry & Coping with the Effects of Trauma classes in collaboration with the Pivot Program. Future pilot programs include:
- Child Reading
- Applied Theatre and Communications
- MCE Orientation (designed by program participants)
Currently, MCE is actively working toward introducing additional certification programs in 2025.
MCE is committed to providing participants within our programs opportunities to obtain the necessary tools for success upon release. The more workshops and certification programs we can provide, the more returning citizens will successfully reintegrate, becoming productive members of society, setting an example for others, and showing rehabilitation of incarcerated individuals when provided with structure and opportunities.
Written by: Janet Lane