On the subject of Re-entry and finding Employment while on the Registry I pass on this request.:

From: Wayne Bowers
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2016 8:57 AM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Employment research


Mark Flowers contacted the CURE office and president Charlie Sullivan to seek help in getting participants for research on former offenders who were able to gain employment upon release. Here is his message to CURE and the recruitment notice is attached. Note, Dianne has been CURE's ACA representative for a long time. Wayne

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Mark Flowers <mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu>
Date: Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 8:43 PM
Subject: Mark Flowers
To: Charlie@curenational.org



Hi Charlie,

I hope you remember me from ACA. Dianne Tramutola-Lawson of Colorado CURE gave me your e-mail address and suggested that I contact you as I desperately need assistance from CURE.

I am finishing up my Ph.D. dissertation and need help. I am conducting research on ex-offenders who spent a minimum of five years in prison and then got out and were able to find employment which paid them enough to support themselves and/or a family.

I need between 10-15 participants total and only have three so far, which all came from Colorado.

Would you be willing to send my recruitment flyer to your CURE reps and see if they can assist me with finding potential applicants?

Charlie, I want to thank you in advance for any assistant you and CURE can provide.

Dianne has been a great supporter and has helped in many ways.

Please feel free to call me if you have any question.

Thanks, Mark Flowers
804-380-5764

Maybe someone here on Daily Strength could reach out and help with information about your own experiences?

The Recruitment Flyer attached to the above e-mail:

RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS NEEDED

PURPOSE: To explore the personal experiences and perceptions of ex-offenders who served a minimum of five years in prison and have maintained post-incarceration employment
for a period of one year or more.

ELIGIBILITY: Participants must be fluent in English; served a minimum
of five years and have maintained post-incarceration
employment capable of supporting themselves and/or a
family for a minimum of one year.

BENEFITS: There are no real benefits to the individual participants, however the researcher hopes the information you provide will assist other ex-offenders who are preparing to re-enter society in the future.

COMPENSATION: Each participant participating in this study will
receive a $20.00 gift card to Wal-Mart.

CONTACT: Please feel free to contact your local C.U.R.E. representative if you are interested in participating in this study, who will make initial contact with the researcher.

You can also contact the researcher direct at 804-380-5764 or by e-mail at: mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu

I hope at lease a few people are employed and willing to respond in order to help "Re-entry" for the next guy getting out and looking for work, hoping to put life back together...

It looks like the CURE survey is about general reentry, not specific to registrants.

I think so. This ishout out is for for specific information from a smaller group of registrants who served at least 5 years in prison before 're-entered' looked for and found employment (see the research specs above) Looks like the researcher needs 12- 15 people brave enough and willing to give her more information to help us know what worked for them upon re-entry.

If in doubt, if you one of those brave registrants thinking about doing this please contact the researcher direct at 804-380-5764 or by e-mail at: mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu and ask for specifics. So far she has only two people and they both live in Colorado. She needs n=more people with more information about struggles to find employment in other states.

When in pain, reach out and try to help someone else on Daily Strength Families of Sez Offenders. Isn't that what all this is really all about. Isn't that exactly why 300 people already took the Survey in the first place?

If you are someon who possible can step up for this please also contact the researcher direct at 804-380-5764 or by e-mail at: mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu

I think This is about getting specific information from a smaller group of registrants who served at least 5 years in prison before 're-entered' looked for and found employment (see the research specs above) Looks like the researcher needs 12- 15 people brave enough and willing to give her more information to help us know what worked for them upon re-entry.

If in doubt, if you one of those brave registrants thinking about doing this please contact the researcher direct at 804-380-5764 or by e-mail at: mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu and ask for specifics. So far she has only two people and they both live in Colorado. She needs more people with more information about their own struggles to find employment in other states.

When in pain, reach out and try to help someone else on Daily Strength Families of Sex Offenders. Isn't that what all this is really all about. Isn't that exactly why 300 people already took the Survey in the first place?

In short, you are someone who served at leas 5 years in prison, employed and thinking about stepping up again for this too, please contact the researcher direct at 804-380-5764 or by e-mail at: mflowers1@capellauniversity.edu

I'm not knocking, I was just pointing out it doesn't seem to be directed just at us.

I'd do it but I don't know if I qualify. I got a six year sentence but got out at three.

PS: I can post this at other places, like SOSEN or on my list of sites.

Maybe not "just at us" but it doesn't exclude us either. She needs people with 5 years and who somehow found descent employment afterwards...Anyone interested could maybe call and ask? What ever happens Thank You. I got this request from Wayne Bowers of Cure-sort (the SO arm of Cure) so I think it's OK. should someone call and find the researcher is afraid to include stats re SO's and employment etc maybe some one will let us know on this site?

I e-mailed Wayne back and said I'd try to get the word out so go ahead and pass this around to other contacts if you want. Put all these tiny little bits of good together and maybe some bigger good will come around...Who Knows? Like a few people will be less automatically prejudiced. Maybe think we are human etc???

I contacted the researcher directly. He says it doesn't matter if it is an RSO or not. I was only in for 3 years but I don't think I qualify but I did post it both on my website as well as forwarded it to those who run the Oncefallen.com FB page. Surely getting 15 people would be easy.

Thank You so much.