Services

We offer computer and IT training that is designed to increase technical skills, knowledge, efficiency, and value creation. We also offer job training that will help returning citizens to succeed and feel good in a job. These training skills become a way of life and increases the needed skill set and helps in the development of an employee as well as overall growth of decreasing the recidivism rate. To that end, we offer job placement with different organizations and unions that we are partnered with and prepared to hire the right person that comes through HOTT’s program.

We offer empowerment through Financial literacy education. This service brings the skills and knowledge required to make informed decisions to manage one’s finances. We help male and female returning citizens to process and focus on personal finance by primarily providing information and opportunities to increase financial literacy and by ensuring access to appropriate financial services. Financial empowerment strategies can be particularly impactful and help create a better model of financial behaviors or provide new knowledge to transfer and support around managing finances correctly.

Business Planning & Setup – We mentor male and female returning citizens who dream of starting a business. We help them research, identify and develop a product or service that they think will be successful. We assist them with research and putting a plan together that will identify what the needs of what the business will be. We also help identify the licenses, insurances, personal and business credit advice along with any financial business planning.

• We need all program certifications or at least a list from the person’s case manager.
• We will need all infractions or write-ups from all the facilities they have been to. Again the case manager should have all that.
• The person should request their full file from their case manager just so they can see what is in their file and to also make sure the file is correct and updated.
• Are there any victims?  Is there a concern for them to request to deny parole? (This is a very important piece that will deny them parole)
• We will prepare a full re-entry home plan.

1. 1. show and confirm they will live in a stable and safe home and environment.
   2. show and confirm a job would be ready for the parolee.
   3. Letters from family members on the parolee’s character, remorse, and additional help if needed.
   4. Programs, classes, or colleges achieved in prison with certificates or listed on the case managers report.
   5. Mental health or medical files if needed.
   6. Staff at the prison can also write character letters.
   7. Community letters of support that the parolee is welcome back into the community with help, love, and tenacity.
   8. Condition plans from organizations that offer mental health, drug addiction, domestic violence, and AA will be in writing to the parole board.
   9. If the prospective parolee has been denied parole we will get them or an attorney to get the full risk assessment to break down why the parole was denied.  We will then work with elected officials, communities, and organizations to set you a plan that will get you a new parole hearing if we see that the parole commission was wrong in their findings for denying the parolee.

Some of us are not attorneys but we assist with supporting the male and female returning citizens with post-conviction relief. We help get a public defender to assist with bringing the case back to court with new evidence and other things that could help to get a new trial or a new consideration for release. We have a good relationship with the Baltimore Public Defender’s office that handles Maryland’s Post-conviction in a lot of cases. We also have great relationships with Attorneys in the DMV as well. We also offer participatory defense.