Delancey Street Foundation

Delancey Street will operate a Solano prison housing unit providing job and life skills and transition inmates needing extensive services, including long term housing, job training and GED fulfillment, to Delancey. It will also offer, transition for inmates needing minimal reentry services, such as a job placement, to SF STRONG, a short-term residential facility operated by Delancey with San Francisco District Attorney. This project is an adaptation of a holistic re-entry model that the Delancey Street Foundation has been building for 40 years. Delancey works with people who were formerly incarcerated—or those experiencing addiction, trauma or poverty—and trains them in practical and varied skillsets. Residents at Delancey Street learn to be general contractors, teachers, or truck drivers. They study for a degree or manage a restaurant, bookstore, or a moving company without any professional help. When it comes time for them to rejoin their communities, they are capable of living full and productive lives. The Solano prison housing project would bring the Delancey model to a new community and work with recently released inmates to determine the best fit for their individual histories, current situations and potential capabilities.