Mr. Jim,

After meeting with the Job Fair Committee this morning, we decided that to cancel the Beaver County Employment and Community Resource Fair this Thursday due to a lack of employer participation. I am sorry if this causes any inconveniences for you.

In response to the unwillingness of local employers to participate in the fair, we feel that a better, more productive route to take is that of producing a catalog of employers and human service agencies who help ex-offenders. This catalog will be given to the inmates upon their release. Could we add Bidwell's name to this list? Let me know your thoughts on this, and please respond and let me know that you received the notice of the cancellation. Thank you.

David
Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development

REPLY:

Mr.David:

Thanks for the notice. I appreciate your frustration. I’m currently working with a group of people who are attempting to bring aid and assistance to those of us who are in prison. The general public is less than enthusiastic in response to post-incarceration issues. But as the tidal wave of people from the ‘war on drugs/crime’ hits our communities we are going to regret not spending the time and money on transition programs and job re-training for the (hundred-thousand +) men and women currently in PA county, state and federal correction facilities. Feel free to add Bidwell Training Center to your catalogue also consider opening a dialogue: www.prisontalk.com

Please consider posting to a web log that we're working on http://www.plan2planet.blogspot.com/

jim