While many ex-offenders have strong intentions to turn their life around, the reality of finding work, providing for a family, and coping with a demanding market place often leads them on a path back to jail. The first few months after their release are crucial to their success in creating a productive life free of crime. HSNY provides ex-offenders with support to help them apply what they've learned at GreenHouse. Upon release, they prepare and send out résumés, hone job interviewing skills, and learn about and follow up with other needed resources, such as educational or vocational training, or drug-counseling programs.

Through our network of relationships with after-care programs and prospective employers, we've placed ex-offenders with private employers, public agencies, non-profit organizations, in college, and in halfway houses. In addition to helping inmates find jobs or programs, HSNY also offers GreenHouse graduates internships with GreenTeam, our transitional horticultural and vocational training program.

This program is made possible through the generous support of our supporters, which include American Express, Louise and Arde Bulova Fund, Burpee, Dorr Foundation, Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation, EPA, Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, New York Community Trust, Ostgrodd Foundation, and Panaphil Foundation, as well as individual donors.

Please contact James Jiler, Director of GreenHouse, for more information.