A Juneau mental health organization is helping people formerly involved in the justice system get housing, and the program is working.
Angel Muñoz sits in his apartment in Juneau, Alaska on April 28, 2022. He was able to secure the apartment through a reentry program run by JAMHI Health & Wellness.
When it comes to employment, there are fidelity bonds available — those lower the risks and financial burden on employers. Block would like to see a similar program for housing too. And they can’t just look on Facebook or Craigslist for a place; it’s next to impossible for them to find housing that way.
Block has personal experience with incarceration, mental health and substance use. But he went through a program that helps people in his situation go to college, and it changed his life. “I didn’t know what to do. I felt like I was hopeless. I didn’t have control of my life,” Muñoz said. “And I go, ‘What?’ I’m doing this just to get to back where I was starting? I go, ‘No.’”
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