MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Between SSM Health Care of Wisconsin, Inc., doing business as St. Clare Hospital – Baraboo and the Sauk County Health Department for a Donation Benefitting the Education Navigator Project

This is year two of this project.

The Project focus's on providing an educational-based path out of incarceration and into employment for five key target populations—Sauk County Jail inmates, inmates on Huber Work Release, Medication Assisted Treatment participants, Adult Treatment Court participants, and those residents on extended supervision (post prison). St. Clare Hospital has provided a donation of $71,000 that will be utilized by Sauk County to fund and support a .75 LTE Education Navigator position for Calendar Year 2021. St. Clare Hospital retains certain interests in the operational success of the Project.

By providing culturally and linguistically competent navigation through and to educational resources (instruction, tutoring, training, testing/credentialing), it is anticipated that some people involved in the Sauk County correctional system will use education as a pathway out of incarceration and into sustained employment. By reducing the generational cycle of incarceration and by providing navigation through and to the education system, this project should reduce incarceration, recidivism, and revocation rates. It is anticipated that this change will also lead to formerly-incarcerated individuals becoming and staying employed, which should lead to greater access to health care, improved health conditions, and reduced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma for the children of the incarcerated. By providing culturally competent and responsive approaches, the project also intends to address racial and ethnic disparities in the incarcerated population.