The Transitional Programs portfolio disrupts systems of harm and creates opportunities for autonomy and success through providing non-academic support services for students, both pre-and post-release.
While the Transitional Programs portfolio is different in many ways from the Educational Programs Portfolio, these two portfolios overlap in the understanding that this college program is much more than a degree-seeking opportunity it is an intervention, a lifeline, a community, and a support system.
Shon Holman-Wheatley, Ed.S. serves as the Director of Transitional Programs and supports the overall direction and operations of the Transitional Programs portfolio. Shon also serves as the Transitional Programs Coordinator for our out of state alumni.
Laramie Riggs serves as the Transitional Programs Manager and supports the administration of our alumni services. Laramie also serves as the Transitional Programs Coordinator for our Middle Tennessee Sites.
Drost Kokoye serves as the Transitional Programs Coordinator for our West Tennessee Sites.
Kasey Bowe serves as the Transitional Programs Intern and coordinates events and educational programming for our alumni.
Jeremy White serves as a Transition Coach and provides reentry coaching to our alumni who live in West Tennessee.
Edward Jones serves as a Transition Coach and provides reentry coaching to our alumni who live in Middle Tennessee.
Nicholas Howard serves as a Transition Coach and provides reentry coaching to our alumni who live in East Tennessee.
Josh Stolz serves as a Transition Coach and provides reentry coaching to our alumni who live throughout Tennessee.
The Tennessee Moving Forward guide outlines – through written narrative and a detailed user-friendly directory – resources for all essential needs for people transitioning beyond incarceration across all regions in Tennessee, including resources for housing, health and mental-health services, food security, employment and career development, higher education, legal and advocacy support, and information about reentry during COVID-19.
www.tennesseetransitions.org
THEI seeks to equip our local faith communities to build supportive pre-release post-release relationships with just one person returning to their community from incarceration.
THEI seeks to equip our alumni and other returning citizens with the most basic and fundamental need that everyone deserves which is HOUSING. For all the questions that come up during the reentry process, “Where will Ilive?” is one of the hardest and most important question that our students needto answer.
A comprehensive statewide resource to support Tennesseans transitioning from incarceration Moving Forward Resource Directory
A searchable list of National, State, and local resources, which will live on the directory page.
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