TIIAI/Gateway to Re-Entry is currently housed at Myers Recreation Center, 5803 Kingsessing Ave.

Our currently location is a major resource for Re-Entry and Mentoring:

• Has group and one-on-one Mentoring Workshops on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
• Presents and expands each week one of the Ten Steps to Re-Entry as a specific life skill.
• Has participants from PICC
  Facilities, Juvenile Services/Justice, NET, and the Performance Learning Center.
• Has a Purposeful Mentoring curriculum for the Mentees.
• Has developed specific training program for Mentors.
• Is currently connecting our Mentees to employment.
• Has provided

employment for over 150 males and females at the Convention Center/Kimmel Center and Penns Landing. The Gateway to Re-Entry Program is structured under “The Village” a web-based management system. This program is built on a research-based framework that allows Gateway to Re-Entry to be measured, sustained and replicated. The focus is to identify and combat challenges faced by the Mentees as they transition back into the community. The Village developed by The Fifth House (www.thefifthhouse.com) is an extremely innovative methodology that eliminates negative factors and reduces the risks of recidivism.
Services/Resources and Project Application:
The mentoring program is the “gateway” to all the other re-entry programs. The “Ten Steps to Re-Entry” is the foundation for any successful re-entry process.
The foundation of the Ten Steps to Re-Entry is changing the way one perceives his/her place in the scheme of things. One has to change the way he/she thinks. The Mentoring Program engages a detailed developmental relationship between the Mentees and Mentors.
or the mentoring process to be successful it has to support the Mentees professional and personal development. The Mentor/s incorporate a distinctive approach to first connect then relate to the Mentees past experiences, to identify where the Mentees are now, and then, to assist in the formulation of a plan for future endeavors.
The primary goal is to form a bond of unconditional trust and mutual respect in the initial stages of the pre-release process while establishing a viable roadmap for the re-entry.