INMATE
VOCATIONAL
PROGRAM
THE PROBLEM
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95% of people living in the inmate population will eventually return to society. Incarcerated adults face several obstacles upon their release, including unemployment and unemployability. Often lower educational attainment and lack of formalized skills prevent those convicted from obtaining jobs with livable wages, thus creating cyclic financial oppression in certain communities and familial hardships that trickle to our most vulnerable.
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Providing educational programming and vocational training to adults while they are incarcerated can help them overcome these challenges by fostering the skills needed to find employment (Davis et al. 2014).
THE SOLUTION
Correctional facilities offering vocational educational programs have proven that it is a strategy for reducing criminal recidivism and improving economic opportunities for inmates transitioning back to civilian life. The benefits of vocational training programs:
● Significantly reduce the likelihood a temporary jail sentence will turn to a longer prison sentence
● More education and training a person has is linked to lower criminal activity and recidivism.
Knot Your Average Academy aims to provide the inmates a comprehensive business program designed to provide inmates with the training, skills, and knowledge to establish a flourishing business upon their release. We have taken our traditional online program for hair care and entrepreneurship and adapted it for the inmates specifically, with an Inmate Vocational Training Program. The inmates gain the tools, knowledge, and confident they need to look good, feel good and do good things. Since 2021, KYAA has helped female inmates gain the tools, knowledge, and confident they need to look good, feel good and do good things.
