The Educational Transition Coordination program is a pilot intervention at Wayne State University with the goals of increasing the well-being and economic mobility of formerly incarcerated individuals who confront both structural and functional difficulties navigating community reentry. This article describes the program, the population served, the evaluation to date, including functional and structural barriers, and policy implications.
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