Carbon County officials are asking agencies to help update a program information website as part of a working resource guide for the area.

Jamie Drake of Carbon-Monroe-Pike Drug and Alcohol Commission and co-chair of the Carbon County Interagency and Family Collaborative Board, asked the board members to help update a website program that showcases health and human services in the area to help with the re-entry planning process.Officials have been working on a comprehensive plan to help individuals who are leaving incarceration.The group has been meeting monthly since September to create a coalition that will provide intensive programs and services for re-entry into society.The goal of the coalition is to build a program to help inmates leaving incarceration re-enter into society, as well as cut down on the recidivism rate at the county prison.Drake said that this resource guide at

www.pa211east.org, which is operated through the United Way, will help provide information for Carbon County residents in need of services both for families of those who are incarcerated and being released, as well as everyone from children to senior citizens. The website provides lists of services in Berks, Carbon, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Northampton and Schuylkill counties.She is asking all Carbon County agencies who provide some type of service to go to the website and see if their agency meets the requirements for inclusion on the website.The re-entry strategy will be unveiled to agencies during the Human Services Priority Breakfast, slated for April 15 at Whispering Pines, Penn Forest Township Fire Company 1.In 2015, Carbon County, received $10,000 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency for studying whether or not the county can support a re-entry program.