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CCT helps people with criminal records find healthier and more productive ways of living.

05/19/2026

Job-ready before release. 🧩

NCDAC recently launched NCJET 🚀 — the North Carolina Jobs Exploration in Transition pilot — at the NC Correctional Institution for Women. Residents register with NCWorks 💻, build resumes 📄, and explore career paths before they ever walk out the gate. It's what pre-release workforce integration should look like — and NC is one of a small number of states doing it at scale.

Our Center for Women takes it the next step. Residents don't just prepare for jobs. They work and earn real wages 💵 while preparing for release. By the time they graduate from our program, they're not candidates. They're colleagues. 🤝

That's the model.

Charlotte employers, you can hire from it: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/18/2026

Who's actually at the table? 👥🪑

Under Executive Order 303 📜, North Carolina established the Joint Reentry Council — a cabinet-level coordinating body that brings together NCDAC, NC Commerce, DHHS, Transportation, Military and Veterans Affairs, and other state agencies to align their work for people returning home from prison. The council held its first meeting of 2026 in January. Workforce development has a seat. 💼

CCT has been coordinating with these agencies — one relationship at a time — for fifty years. What's new is that the coordination is now formal, public, and statewide.

Local infrastructure. State alignment. Federal investment. That combination is rare. It's here now. 🎯

Learn more about the JRC ⏩: https://tinyurl.com/mrys4m4f

05/14/2026

Apprenticeship is now the pathway. 🛠️🪜

In February 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor launched RESTART — Reentry Employment in Skilled Trades, Advanced Manufacturing, Registered Apprenticeships, and Training — with $81 million 💰 in competitive funding for up to 20 projects nationwide. It's the federal government's biggest bet yet on registered apprenticeship as the core workforce tool for people leaving prison.

The North Carolina Governor's Council on Workforce and Apprenticeships has a goal: double 📈 the number of registered apprentices in the state. Reentry-ready employers are part of how that goal gets met.

CCT's LifeWorks! participants are qualified. ✅ The seats just need to open.

Open one: 🚪 https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/13/2026

Over fifty employers have already made the call. 🏢📞

The Second Chance Business Coalition now includes 50+ large employer members who have committed to fair-chance hiring and are tracking outcomes. In February 2025, the coalition released a metrics framework 📊 for measuring what second-chance hiring actually produces.

These companies are not experimenting. They're scaling. 📈

For Charlotte's business community 📍 — which includes several of these employers — the question isn't whether fair-chance hiring works. It's whether we're going to actively participate.

Start the conversation: 💬 https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/12/2026

There's a national framework for this. 🤝🌐

The SHRM Foundation's Getting Talent Back to Work initiative is the workforce community's shared language for fair-chance hiring: a pledge ✍️, a certificate program for HR professionals 🎓, and a clear set of practices for evaluating candidates with records on skills and fit rather than a checkbox.

CCT's LifeWorks! program is built on the same logic. Participants complete employment readiness training and one-on-one coaching before they interview. They show up prepared. 💪

What they need is more Charlotte employers willing to look at the candidate 👀, not just the background check.

Charlotte employers ready to hire: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/11/2026

North Carolina just won $4 million. 💰

In August 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor 🇺🇸 awarded the NC Department of Commerce a $4 million Pathway Home 6 grant — one of roughly nine awards nationwide out of a $25 million pool. The grant funds pre- and post-release workforce services for people leaving state prison, with a case manager carrying each participant through the transition. Services begin within 72 hours of release. 🕒

We're thrilled that Charlotte Works will lead and manage the funds!

Federal investment is reaching our region and here at CCT, we're always open to strengthen collaborative partnerships that help make pathways to economic mobility seamless for those we serve.

Let's build the pipeline: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/10/2026

To every mother — including the ones who can't be home today. 💐👩‍👧‍👦

Some of the women at CCT's Center for Women are spending Mother's Day in the final stretch of a state sentence. They wake up early ☀️, go to jobs in the community, and come back to a residential facility designed around what women actually need to go home and stay home. They call their kids 📞. They write letters ✉️. They count the months.

Mother's Day has a different weight when you're not where you want to be — when the people who made you a mother are growing up without you in the room.

The work CCT has done with NCDAC since 1974 is, in part, about getting women home. 🏡 Home in time for the next Mother's Day. Home for the science fairs and the dance recitals and the ordinary Tuesdays. Home for good.

To the moms at the Center for Women: we see you. 💛 To every mother in Charlotte: Happy Mother's Day. 🌸

05/07/2026

The model scales. 🔑📈

Across North Carolina, NCDAC's work-release program serves more than 5,000 people over five years 👥 — with 800 actively on work release at any given time. It's one of the largest employer-connected corrections programs in the state.

CCT's Center for Women sits inside that system, and serves as a practical proof point ✅ for what work release can produce when it's paired with residential stability, clinical care, and consistent case management. Zero returns to prison for women who completed the program between 2021 and 2025. 🔒➡️🏡

That outcome is not an accident. It's what happens when corrections, community providers, and employers operate as one system rather than three. 🧩

See how Charlotte employers plug in: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/06/2026

Reentry is not a social service. It's a workforce issue. 💼

That's the shift happening in state policy rooms 🏛️ across the country. The Council of State Governments Justice Center launched the Reentry 2030 network on the premise that recidivism falls when people leaving prison access jobs 💼, housing 🏠, and health care 🏥 ... not because someone delivered services to them, but because the labor market absorbed them.

Eight states have signed on. 🗺️ North Carolina is one of them.

For Charlotte-Mecklenburg, that reframe matters. Every person returning home 🏡 from prison is part of the local workforce. The question employers have to answer: are they hiring from it?

How CCT's LifeWorks! team works with employers: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/05/2026

A 50-year partnership. 🏛️🤝

The Center for Community Transitions has operated under contract with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction — and its predecessor agencies — since 1974. Our Center for Women is a 30-bed residential work-release facility 🏠 serving women in the final 12 to 36 months of their state sentence. ACA-accredited. ✅ The only adult community corrections model of its kind in North Carolina.

That relationship has outlasted administrations, funding cycles, and shifts in sentencing law. It endured because the model works: women live in community, work in community, and prepare to return to community 🏘️ — supported by licensed clinicians, case managers, and family reunification services.

Zero women who completed the program between 2021 and 2025 have returned to prison. 🔒➡️🏡 NCDAC data.

What a half-century partnership can build: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

05/04/2026

North Carolina has a plan. 📋

NC Reentry 2030 is the state’s strategic roadmap for rehabilitation 🔄 and reentry 🚪 — built under Executive Order 303 🏛️ and published in April 2025 📅 with 26 objectives and 133 strategies across housing 🏠, workforce 💼, education 🎓, health 🩺, and family 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦.

North Carolina is one of eight states in the national Reentry 2030 network 🌎. The others: Alabama, Arizona, California, Nebraska, New York, Washington, and Maine. What makes NC’s version different is the infrastructure already in place to execute it ⚙️ — NCDAC, NC Commerce, local reentry councils, and community-based providers like CCT that have been building this work for decades 🛠️.

Partner with CCT: https://tinyurl.com/bdz9f7tn

A plan is only as strong as the action behind it 🚀

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5825 Old Concord Road
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