Also called: Credible Messenger, Reentry Peer Navigator
Uses their own experience of incarceration to mentor people coming home from prison or jail.
A credible messenger meets a young man the day he's released, helps him get an ID and a job interview, and checks in late at night when things get hard.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
High school diploma, about 0 years after high school. Lived experience; peer certification in many states.
Ways in: On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Growing much faster than average (about 9% over 10 years). Tracks social and human service assistants.
Low risk for 10 years. The job rests on a real person's lived experience of incarceration; AI can't be a credible messenger.
Classes: Psychology, Sociology, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 21-1093.
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