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The Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (CFBCI) at the U.S. Department of Labor seeks to empower faith-based and community organizations (FBCO) as these organizations help their neighbors enter, succeed and thrive in the workforce. Read more...

This Month's Champion of Compassion

Spectrum Resources

Spectrum Resources is a non-profit organization, based in Des Moines, IA, that is dedicated to giving men and women the tools they need to rebuild their lives and become independent, productive members of society through basic job training and trade skills. Spectrum provides services that enhance intellectual, social, physical, and economic development.

Spectrum Resources won a competitively-awarded Labor Department grant in 2005 to provide transitional services to former prisoners under President George W. Bush’s Prisoner Re-entry Initiative, which was announced in the president’s 2004 "State of the Union" address.

Spectrum Resources works with many community partners to provide services to ex-offenders that include mentoring, job training, job placement and life skills. Through the first two years of services under the grant, Spectrum Resources has enrolled nearly 400 participants in its PRI program and has placed 83 percent of its participants into jobs. The one-year recidivism rate for program participants is currently less than half the national average.

Spectrum Resources is also a Beneficiary-Choice grantee and has been named by the Center for Faith-Based and Community Initiatives a "Champion of Compassion."

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You can visit the Employment and Training Administration's Prisoner Reentry Initiative page for more information on the PRI, including a map of grantee locations and contact information.