we have no entry, entry, reentry and under the leadership of karol mason and amy solomon the federal agency counsel we have over 20 agencies all looking for ways that they can do a better job to ensure people are successful. every single agency on this board has found ways they can help people formally incarcerated to do better and that's a pretty amazing thing. again, something that should continue regardless of who's in office because it's too important for our public safety, too important for these individuals and their families. we also have the legal eight interagency roundtable run by lisa foster. the office of access to justice and she is doing amazing work making sure people who do not have the means get the legal help they need to get out of whatever trouble they are in. this is such a important part of the work of the department of justice, created under eric holder and continued by loretta lynch. training and licensing, again, we have too many barriers for people who have a record. how do we make sure they are not stuck under some licensing scheme for some offense that sho

and one of the things that we learned through the re-entry council work that amy solomon leads on behalf of the department is that we needed to have different voices at the table. so we started meeting regularly with individuals who had been formerly incarcerated. and i just spoke a couple months ago at their first national conference. and to see thousands of people who have been caught up in our criminal justice system committed to rebuilding their lives. if you need inspiration, work with them. you'll be inspired and you'll see how committed they are to helping other people. so, what we have done with our second chance dollars is fund programs that work with communities to help build opportunities for people coming out of prisons. but we know what works. again, it's connection to family, jobs and education. so in partnership with the department of education, who's running the second chance pel program, which is phenomenal success, we're over 12,000 people who are incarcerated are now going to have a chance of getting higher education, thanks to the second chance pell pilot program. i m