Mapping Your Future
A Guide to Successful Reentry in Illinois, Illinois Edition2025
An Illinois-focused edition of an essential resource
Paper – $12
979-8-991-85630-0
Publication Date
Paperback: 01/31/2025
About the Book
Mapping Your Future: Guide to Successful Reentry, Illinois Edition s a reentry guide for people coming home from prison in Illinois. It helps people navigate their conditions of release, find housing and employment, build relationships, deal with substance use concerns, navigate health care, and more. Created by members of the Education Justice Project at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, it is based on the experiences of formerly incarcerated people and includes advice and illustrations from those who have gone through reentry. The guide includes a state-wide resource directory and useful mail-in forms. The Education Justice Project has updated this guide every year since 2015 and currently distributes more than 13,000 copies annually.About the Author
The Reentry Resource Program of the Education Justice Project, a college-in prison program based at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, produces prison reentry and deportation guides. Members include university staff, EJP program alumni and other system-impacted individuals, undergraduate and graduate students, family members of incarcerated, community activists, and social workers working in prison reentry.Related Titles
