Brooke Shafer- How it Started; How It’s Going
Brooke Shafer will be the first to tell you people like her don’t usually end up in prison. “Nobody had ever been in trouble, let alone arrested, let alone gone to prison! So not only am I shaming the family name, no one knew how to react,” she said, with a laugh....
Edith Houghton Hooker
Byline – Michelle Cirocco, Executive Director of Televerde Foundation Edith Houghton Hooker. You may never have heard that name before, but around the Televerde Foundation, she’s a well-known figure. Edith was an early twentieth century leader of the suffrage...
How It Started, How It’s Going: Kristin Burns
Kristin’s journey with Televerde started as she began a 10-year prison sentence.
“I was incarcerated for all those years, and Televerde really gave me a sense of purpose and belonging. It gave me a sense of accomplishment and confidence. Televerde Foundation gave me the footing to bring it all home.”
To #BreakTheCycle, Kristin had to go on a journey beyond just earning a stable income – with the help of both Televerde and Televerde Foundation, Kristin was able to find her value as a human being.
First-Rate Companies Discuss Second Chance Advantage
During Changing Hearts and Minds: How Hiring Formerly Incarcerated Job Candidates Benefits Your Company presented by Televerde and Televerde Foundation, leaders from an array of companies shared the competitive advantages second chance hiring provides. The Unseen...
Join Industry Leaders for a Discussion on Bridging the Inclusion Gap and Second-Chance Hiring
Televerde to Host a C-Suite Panel with Leading Businesses to Show the Business, Social and Economic Benefits of Evolving Hiring Practices to Include Individuals with a Criminal Record Phoenix, AZ – January 13, 2021 – The events of the past year--COVID-19, civil unrest...
Televerde Foundation Forms Strategic Alliance with The Change Companies®
Interactive Journaling® is a key component of foundation’s reentry curriculum PHOENIX, AZ – November 17, 2020 – When committing to create meaningful change, likeminded partners must come together to share best practices and ideas to identify innovative ways of...
MBA students teach incarcerated women career skills in new partnership
The W.P. Carey School and Televerde Foundation join forces to help formerly and currently incarcerated women rejoin the workforce
Televerde Foundation Partners with the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to Deliver Customized Professional Development Curriculum to Returning Citizens
Televerde Foundation Partners with the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University to Deliver Customized Professional Development Curriculum to Returning Citizens
Leading Through Change with Salesforce
The global health crisis is exposing the failures of our criminal justice system. With 2.3 million people in prison, the United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. More than 80%...
Televerde Foundation Adds Money Experience Online Personal Finance Course to Program for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Women
Using Money Experience’s Essentials program, The Televerde Foundation will blend classroom-based curriculum, software simulation and storytelling to offer the women participating in the PATHS program a big picture look at how their decisions – particularly ones made once they’re released from incarceration – can impact not only their near- and long-term lifestyle goals, but also their long-term financial health.