A career in an institutional setting is quite different than any other environment that you may have worked in previously. It’s not what is most typically thought of when you think of a normal business office. Whether you work in a hospital, a jail or prison, a mental health facility, a recovery home, or any other residential setting: it is …

Approximately 2 million times per year, individuals who have serious mental illnesses are incarcerated across the nation. According to the Stepping Up Initiative, it is estimated that three-quarters of these adults also have problems with drugs and alcohol.  Once individuals with these conditions are incarcerated, they tend to stay longer in jail and are at higher risk of recidivism once …