This update discusses the "Reentry National Media Outreach Campaign," a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation that exists to bring the issues of prisoner reentry to greater public awareness. The U.S. Department of Education has been charged with administering the "Life Skills for State and Local Prisoners Program," a discretionary grant program that is intended as a demonstration program to develop, test and disseminate mechanisms to impact recidivism by providing life skills instruction and related services during the period leading up to release. Here, as the author has come to know these various Life Skills programs, he has noted that effective programs don't necessarily look like school programs. Often they provide instruction in the context of services addressing family, health, or employment issues. Among other things, he points out that the Casey Foundation project highlighted a very positive example of educators working with a model reentry program.