AHRQ Spotlights Innovative Work of Two RWJF Community Health Leaders
November 14, 2011 | Story
Programs provide health care to recently released inmates in the Bay area and uninsured patients in Albuquerque.
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RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar Tackles Crisis in Care for Women in the Justice System
August 26, 2010 | Story
Continuity and access issues in prison health care increase lifelong health risks for people who pass through the system.
Shira Shavit Honored for Creating a 'Medical Home' for Former Prison Inmates
August 23, 2010 | Story
San Francisco physician receives 2010 RWJF Community Health Leader Award for work with ex-offenders and their families.
Community Health Leader Revives Life-Saving Program for Women
June 1, 2012 | Story
Program that rescues women from substance abuse, incarceration and poverty begins again.
Is There Life After Prison?
March 26, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar studies ways to help former inmates survive the difficultand often deadlytransition to freedom.
Former Inmate and Addict Explores Substance Abuse and Recovery Through Art
July 23, 2009 | Story
In 2003, Materson received an Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award and got a chance to use his art and his life experiences to help others understand the process of addiction and the path to recovery.
Defining and Promoting Positive Youth Development
January 24, 2012 | Story
Travis built his New Connections research project on a data set from the 1997–2002 evaluation of the Health Link Program.
Meditation Course Helps Native Americans Sustain Recovery
July 23, 2009 | Story
Marlatt and colleagues conducted a study in a prison in Seattle in which inmates were given the opportunity to participate in a 10-day Vipassana meditation course.
A Stitch in Time
August 28, 2004 | Story
Ray Materson, the first artist ever to receive a grant from Innovators Combating Substance Abuse, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.