New Legacy Reentry Corporation aims to empower ex-offenders and veterans re-entering society through seven core components: apprenticeships, vocational education, mentoring, case management, personal development training, family skills training, and community service. The organization addresses challenges like employment, housing, and social stigma through these services to help its clients successfully reintegrate into the community.

1. Confronting The Past, To Redesign The Future

2. Table Of Contents
Mission
3
Seven Core Components
4
Kentuckiana's Need For A New Legacy
5
Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities
6
Vocational Education
7
Mentoring/Coaching
8
Case Management/Support Services
9
Personal Development
10
Family and Life Skills Training
11
Community Service
12
Veteran's Services
13
Contact
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3. Our Mission
New Legacy Reentry
Corp's mission is ...to
empower ex-offenders and
veterans who are re-
entering society by fostering
a New Legacy of hope and
motivation via support
services, education,
employment, and
community service.

4. Our Mission Will Be Accomplished Via
Seven Core Components
Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities
Vocational Education
Mentoring/Coaching
Case Management/Support Services
Personal Development
Family and Life Skills Training
Community Service

5. Ketucky's In Need Of A New Legacy
New Legacy Reentry Corporation is a faith based
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community organization that is committed to breaking Kentucky has, percentage wise, probably the highest
the cycle of chronic recidivism for ex-offenders (men number of people in prison and in jails than any state in
and women) who were previously incarcerated for non the United States. So we've got to change our mindset.
We've got to do more intervention programs where we can
violent, nonsexual crimes. do something on the front end...Mike Simpson, President
/Kentucky Jailers Association.
In addition, New Legacy provides a separate program
which attends to the needs of veterans who may face More than 40 percent of ex-cons commit crimes within
the following; joblessness,homelessness,and medical three years of their release and wind up back behind bars,
issues. despite billions in taxpayer dollars spent on prison systems
that are supposed to help rehabilitate them...Prison
Recidivism Rates Remain High, Study Shows/Pew Center
Our program utilizes seven core components to On States.
address the societal stigma and challenges that ex-
offenders and homeless veterans face, as they find ...an estimated 3,500 Kentucky veterans are at-risk of
being homeless or have unstable housing...Volunteers of
substantive ways to integrate, successfully, back into America Expands Veterans Services in Kentucky/WFPL
mainstream society. News.

6. Apprenticeship/Employment Opportunities
"Apprenticeship Programs are one of our
● Employment Training best kept secrets”, states Kentucky’s
● Construction Apprenticeships Secretary of Labor Mark Brown as he
delivers talks throughout the
● Full/and or Part Time Commonwealth. “These programs have
Employment In The provided the skilled workers that
Construction Industry employers have needed for many, many
years in this country. Unfortunately
these programs have declined in recent
years, but we are currently experiencing
a rejuvenation of this proven workforce
training method. I believe it will be a
key component to our economic
recovery."...Registered Apprenticeship.

7. Vocational Education
● Construction Trades/Careers
● Construction Math
● Blueprint Reading/Analyzing The shortage of skilled
● Construction Safety workers was noted before the
● Electrical recession, but the
● Interior Design phenomenon has become
● Carpentry more acute with the recent
● HVAC recovery...National Research
● Lead Abatement Center For Career and
● Inspections Technical Education.
● GED Classes
● College Preparation

8. Mentoring/Coaching
Mentees gain skills, self-
● Job Mentorship confidence, and valuable
● Life Skills Support insights into business culture
as they work with supportive
and experienced guides in the
context of the mentoring
relationship...Kentucky
Employer Mentoring Project.

9. Case Management/Support Services
● Community Referrals/Resources Working with consumers who are also
● Goal Setting/Life Plans ex-offenders presents special
● Documentation/Personal challenges in providing job placement
Recordkeeping services. It is important to fully
● Liaison Services/Probation and understand the consumers’
Parole circumstances so that you can prepare
● Transportation them for the challenges they will be
● Housing facing. These individuals may face
● Employment multiple barriers to setting and
● Drug & Alcohol Counseling reaching employment goals, including
● Mental Health Services substance abuse, poor work history,
low education levels, physical and
mental health issues and bias against
them...Kentucky Office of Vocational
Rehabilitation/Ex-Offender Resources

10. Personal Development
● Personal/Professional
Development
● Goal Setting/Life Plans
● Communication Skills The most important thing, is to
know thyself from within...
Thales

11. Family and Life Skills Training
● Family Reunification
● Financial Empowerment
Strong family
relationships are good
for the couple, good
for the children and
of great benefit to
society...Time For
Families.

12. Community Service
● Volunteerism
● Community Awareness
● Civic Responsibility
I believe that serving and
being served are reciprocal
and that one cannot really be
one without the other.
-Robert Greenleaf.

13. Veteran's Services
● 24 Hour Staffed Residential
Placement Services
● Job Training The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
● Life Skills Training is taking decisive action to end
homelessness in five years. All veterans
at risk for homelessness or attempting to
exit homelessness, must have easy access
to programs and services...United States
Department of Veterans Affairs.

14. Contact
New Legacy Reentry Corp.
Gisela Nelson
Executive Director
4016 Handley Avenue
Louisville, KY 40218
(502) 500-3930 Confronting The Past,
Nelson732@att.net To Redesign The
Future