Identifying and Managing Barriers

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• Identifying and Managing Barriers

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Performance Objective 1

• Identify and list critical barriers an offender
  encounters when entering the workforce

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Barrier

• any problem, real or imagined
• an obstacle to reaching a goal

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Internal Barriers

• Self-concept
• Self-knowledge
• Self-efficacy
• Negative beliefs
• Planning and decision-making
  skills

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Self-Concept

• Positive or negative
• Realistic or unrealistic
• Strong or weak
• Clear or foggy

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Self-Knowledge

• A persons awareness of
• interests
• skills
• abilities
• work values

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Vulnerabilities

• Lack of interests
• Lack of education and marketable skills
• Lack of development of positive values

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Self-Efficacy

• Ones belief that he or she can exert control
  over many, if not most, of lifes events

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Negative Beliefs

• Negative beliefs create a negative outlook on
  life.
• A positive outlook correlates with good mental
  health and goal attainment.

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Planning and Decision-Making Skills

• Typically learned in childhood from parents
• Lack of these affects ability to
• set goals
• find alternatives
• take action steps

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Racial Distribution of State Inmates
White, non Hispanic 34.2
Black, non Hispanic 45.1
Hispanic 18.1
Other 2.6
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Education Level of Offenders
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Mental Illness and Drug Abuse

• 16.2 are judged mentally ill
• 21.3 in prison due to drug offense
• 79.0 used some form of drugs

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Additional Typical Barriers

• Lack of
• decision-making skill
• knowledge of societal norms
• role models
• vocational skills
• knowledge about job-seeking
• knowledge about the work world

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Additional Typical Barriers

• Limitations due to type of offense
• Lack of
• availability of documents needed to get
  employment
• clothes for a job interview
• transportation
• positive employer attitudes
• child care options
• emotional support

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Additional Critical Barriers

• Suicide
• Domestic violence
• Drug relapse