Overview

*OCREP is no longer a functioning organization (2019) The Orange County Re-Entry Partnership (OCREP) is not a service provider, but is a linkage of public, community and faith-based agencies and advocates functioning together as a critical link between community resource providers and the formerly incarcerated striving to re-establish healthy, productive and rewarding lives. In March of 2006, meetings began between the Sheriff and Probation to discuss the high rates of criminal recidivism in Orange County and to identify a collaborative strategy to reverse the trend. Both agencies had been plagued by demands for services that exceed their agencies available resource capabilities. Funding in Orange County for rehabilitation programs has always been a major challenge and, to complicate matters, both agencies have experienced difficulty in recruiting and retaining employees for these purposes. It had become clear that a collaborative approach to rehabilitating Orange County's criminal offenders would be their best hope for making a meaningful impact on recidivism. Today OCREP is fiscally sponsored project of OneOC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and made up of a strong collaboration of over 700 individuals representing over 220 agencies and organizations dedicated to reducing criminal recidivism in Orange County by creating linkages between the formerly incarcerated and the community based programs available to help them.