In New Jersey and Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, people returning from incarceration have a ...
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rssAdvocating 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 ...
Q&A with Victoria Westbrook
As the Women’s Gender Responsive Coordinator for the Reentry Division of the San Francisco ...
Prison Yoga Project: Creating Access to Healing and Recovery
Despite two very different life paths, two individuals with a shared passion found a ...
Q&A with Janie Marsh Gullickson, Director, Mental Health & Addiction Association of Oregon
Your peer program EVOLVE works with the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office Behavioral Health Unit ...
Q&A with Cheryl Gagne, Sc.D., Senior Associate, C4 Innovations
As Director of Praxis, a training and consultation project based in Massachusetts, you ...
Changing Lives—and the Justice Process—through Collaborative Tribe-County Treatment Courts
Cass County (Minnesota) District Court Judge John Smith first approached Leech Lake Band of ...
Meeting Health Needs at Reentry: North Carolina’s FIT Program
People leaving incarceration are disadvantaged in many ways, not the least of which ...
Q&A with Representative Tarra Simmons, J.D.
In your role as Executive Director of Civil Survival, you help people who were ...
Realizing the Cost Savings and Public-Health Benefits of Medication-Assisted Treatment in Jails and Prisons
Marc Stern, M.D., M.P.H., understands why there might be resistance to treating people for ...
Oklahoma Treatment Courts Leverage Peers in Wraparound Support
Oklahoma has a robust treatment court system that integrates people with lived experience of ...
Q&A with Jonathan M. Giftos, M.D., Medical Director, Addiction Medicine and Drug User Health, Project Renewal
As former clinical director of substance use treatment at Rikers Island for New ...