Prison Re-Entry Collaborative featured at Town Hall - Thursday

Grace Community Resource and Empowerment Center (GCREC), Inc. will be hosting an Informational Town Hall Meeting on June 30, 2011 at Grace Community U.M.C., 1213 

Central Avenue, Chester, PA., 7:00 p.m.  

This Town Hall Meeting is to inform the community of the Prison Re-Entry Collaborative (PREC) and the work that has finally begun. 

Richard "TUT" Carter, Operations Director of Call Center for the PREC, will be the Keynote speaker. The panelist - Seifudin Simpson, Eric Bayne and Sam Atchison will offer information and answer questions from the audience.  Stefan Roots, Delco Times "Chester City Blogger", will be Panel Moderator.  

"Learn how Chester helps those getting out."


Make sure you spread the word to those who are recently released, and family members of those pending release. 

GCREC plans to sponsor quarterly meetings through out Chester city at various locations.  


The Town Hall meetings will address important community concerns by providing relevant information, solutions and resources.  

Future Town Hall meeting topics will include: Violence and Public Safety, Education, etc.

For more information contact James Harper at - (302)588.2467 and/or jharper60@comcast.net.

Organization of the Chester Prison Re-Entry Collaboration include:

City of Chester

Human Rights Coalition-Chester

Chester Workforce Development Center

Delaware County CareerLink

Grace Community Empowerment & resource Center

Chester Diversified Apprenticeship Program 

Entrepreneur Works of Delaware County

Church of Overcomer

Islamic Study Group

Thresholds of Delaware County

S.M.A.R.T. (single mothers are really trying)

H.O.P.E. Commission

Brothers of Concern

Chester Anti violent network

Ryan Shaw, PA Parole & Probation

Fred Pickett, DELCO Probation