News - 2011

Thriving Tully House Family Services Program Celebrates Father's Day with June Events

West Caldwell, NJ June 30 -
Tully House, CEC's 340-bed residential reentry center in Newark, New Jersey held successful Family Services events in June to commemorate Father's Day...


Talbot Hall and The Harbor Continue Excellent GED
Success Rate

West Caldwell, NJ June 17 -
New Jersey facilities Talbot Hall, in Kearny and The Harbor in Newark have continued their record of excellent educational accomplishment by having twelve more residents pass the GED test...


Pennsylvania Reentry Facilities Recommended for Re-accreditation by American Correctional Association

West Caldwell, NJ May 19 -
Two Community Education Centers' Pennsylvania-based facilities - Penn Pavilion and Alle Kiski Pavilion - were officially recommended for re-accreditation by the American Correctional Association (ACA) with perfect 100 percent ratings on all mandatory and non-mandatory standards...


Art and Family Combine for Great Day in New Mexico

West Caldwell, NJ May 11 -
Resident artists of the New Mexico Men's Recovery Academy (NMMRA), CEC's 85-bed residential reentry center for New Mexico Department of Corrections' offenders, welcomed over fifty adults and children to an art fair event that showed off a wide variety of their artwork...



Second Chance Pays Off as Alumna Earns Master's Degree

West Caldwell, NJ May 3 -
Leslie Richardson, an alumnus of Community Education Centers, Inc.'s Albert M. "Bo" Robinson Assessment and Treatment Center in Trenton, New Jersey, graduated with her Master's Degree in Human and Social Services from Lincoln University in Philadelphia on May 1. Ms. Richardson was a resident at Bo Robinson...


Lt. Chad McBride Volunteers to Fight Texas Wildfires

West Caldwell, NJ April 29 -
Chad McBride, Transport Lieutenant and Fire and Safety Coordinator at the Parker County Jail in Weatherford, Texas, developed a passion for fighting fires at age 16. So when the opportunity arrived for him to protect threatened residential areas and important transportation routes from Texas' raging wildfires...


Drexel University Criminal Justice Experts to Present at CEC Sponsored Seminar

West Caldwell, NJ April 27 -
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun, Professor and Head of the Department of Psychology and Dr. David DeMatteo, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Drexel University, will present at a Community Education Centers, Inc. sponsored seminar in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania on April 28th...


Colorado Work Release Residents Maintain Impressive Employment Rate

West Caldwell, NJ April 13 -
Residents are hard at work at Community Alternatives of El Paso (CAE), CEC's 225-bed residential reentry center in Colorado Springs, where work release participants are holding an impressive employment rate - on average 65-70% of eligible work release residents are employed. Keeping employment rates up...

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