In New Jersey and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, people returning from incarceration have a special ...
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rssPromoting Access to Justice through Trauma-Informed Courts
By Sarai Cook, Esq., Servant Leader, National Trauma Awareness Initiative Trauma Is a Courtroom ...
Q&A with Mark Restivo
You are a former New York City police Department officer. When you were a ...
Advocating from Experience: Peers Serving the Legal Needs of Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated People
Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC), based in Oakland, California, began serving women ...
LGBTQ+ Individuals at the Intersection of Mental Health and Criminal Justice
By Cassandra Moore June was Pride Month, a time when LGBTQ+ people and their ...
Q&A with Victoria Westbrook
As the Women’s Gender Responsive Coordinator for the Reentry Division of the San Francisco ...
Q&A with Elena Kravitz, CPRP
As one of New Jersey’s leading trainers on psychiatric advance directives, you have taken ...
CJCares Community Paramedics: Reducing Frequent Emergency Service Use by Connecting High Utilizers to Appropriate Care Services
Community paramedicine enables paramedics or emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to provide a range of ...
Developing an Equity Lens in Criminal Justice Practices
By Anjali Nandi, Ph.D., LAC, MAC Anjali Nandi, Ph.D., LAC, MAC Evidence ...
Meeting Needs and Reducing Recidivism: Washington’s Offender Reentry Community Safety Program
Washington State is cutting its recidivism rates nearly in half among individuals with a ...
Asian Prisoner Support Committee Supports Trauma Recovery and Healing in Prison and Reentry through Cultural Restoration
By Erika Ihara, M.A., M.S., Project Associate, SAMHSA’s GAINS Center Asian Prisoner Support Committee ...
Q&A with Neil Campbell, M.S.
As Executive Director of the Georgia Council on Substance Abuse, you are a passionate ...