Help Us Improve Reentry Services for Your Community

Successfully transitioning back into society after incarceration requires comprehensive support across multiple areas—from securing stable housing and employment to restoring benefits and reconnecting with family. This Reentry Services Program Evaluation Form helps government agencies and community organizations gather crucial feedback from program participants to understand what's working, identify barriers, and improve the services that matter most.

Who Should Use This Form

This template is designed for:

• Government reentry programs seeking participant feedback on job placement, housing assistance, and support services
• Community corrections departments evaluating the effectiveness of post-release programs
• Nonprofit organizations partnering with government agencies to provide reentry support
• Social services departments tracking outcomes and barriers in benefits restoration and family reunification efforts
• Workforce development agencies helping formerly incarcerated individuals overcome employment barriers

Understanding the Reentry Journey

Reentry is not a single event—it's a complex process involving multiple interconnected challenges. This form captures feedback across five critical service areas:

Job Placement & Employment Barriers: Many formerly incarcerated individuals face significant obstacles to employment, from disclosure requirements and background checks to gaps in work history and lack of current references. Your program evaluation should assess how effectively your services help participants overcome these barriers and secure sustainable employment.

Housing Assistance: Stable housing is foundational to successful reentry, yet participants often encounter landlord resistance, restrictive housing authority policies, and affordability challenges. Understanding which housing interventions work—and which fall short—helps programs direct resources more effectively.

Benefits Restoration: Many individuals lose access to crucial benefits during incarceration. Navigating the restoration of Medicaid, SNAP, Social Security, and other programs can be overwhelming. Your evaluation should track how well your services support participants through this bureaucratic process.

Expungement Support: Criminal records create lasting barriers to employment, housing, and education. Programs that provide expungement information, legal assistance, and record sealing support can fundamentally change trajectories. Measuring the effectiveness and accessibility of these services is essential.

Family Reunification: Incarceration strains family relationships, and rebuilding these connections requires intentional support. From supervised visitation assistance to family counseling and parenting programs, understanding what helps participants reconnect with loved ones informs more compassionate, effective services.

Why Paperform for Reentry Program Evaluations

Government agencies and nonprofit organizations serving justice-impacted populations need forms that are accessible, secure, and easy to complete on any device. Paperform makes it simple to create professional evaluation forms that:

• Respect participant privacy with SOC 2 Type II compliance and secure data handling
• Work on any device so participants can provide feedback via smartphone, tablet, or computer at locations convenient to them
• Use conditional logic to show relevant follow-up questions based on which services participants accessed
• Connect to your workflow by sending submissions to case management systems, Google Sheets, or triggering follow-up actions via Stepper workflow automation

Once feedback is collected, use AI Insights to quickly identify common themes, recurring barriers, and program strengths across hundreds of responses—turning participant voices into actionable improvements without spending hours manually reviewing submissions.

Making Reentry Programs More Effective

Every piece of feedback helps. By regularly evaluating your reentry services, you create a feedback loop that centers the lived experiences of participants, identifies gaps in service delivery, and demonstrates program impact to funders and stakeholders. This form template gives you a professional, comprehensive starting point that you can customize to match your specific programs, community context, and evaluation goals.