The Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries of Illinois (CARLI) is collaborating with the Education Justice Project (EJP) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to assist with the inclusion of their Reentry Guides in Illinois library collections, ensuring ready and equitable access to the guides across the state and beyond.
About the Guides
All three guides, Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois, Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry, National Edition, and A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation, are available in English and Spanish editions. Print editions are available for a nominal fee (or can be provided at no cost) and as free downloadable PDF files. CARLI is also working with EJP to make these guides available as open educational resources.
EJP is a comprehensive college-in-prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Their mission is to build a model college-in-prison program that demonstrates the positive effects of higher education on incarcerated students, their families, the communities to which they return, the host institution, and society. The Reentry Resource Program produces these important resources and distributes them to incarcerated individuals, family members, and service agencies.
- Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois has a wealth of information on preparing for reentry while incarcerated, steps to take following release, and includes directories of resources in the state. Topics include housing, employment, healthcare, finances, substance use, and more.
- Mapping Your Future: A Guide to Successful Reentry, National Edition, this edition provides national resources following the model of the Illinois guide.
- A New Path: A Guide to the Challenges and Opportunities After Deportation is for people who live with the threat of detention and deportation. Know your rights, learn where to get legal help, and make a plan in case of possible deportation. Includes a directory of resources in Mexico and Central America.
The Cataloging Maintenance Center has created MARC records for the print and PDF versions of these guides. These MARC records will be available soon.
How to Order Print Versions
Please complete the request form. Financial support may be available for libraries that are interested in adding the guides to their collections but are unable to pay. EJP waives the fee for anyone who is incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, family and friends of incarcerated people, and for anyone unable to pay for the resource. The resources will be distributed to Illinois libraries via ILDS. The CMC is currently working on MARC records and OER for the print guides. CARLI will make an announcement when these are available.
