Better Futures Enterprises
September 10, 2012 | Grantee
A model that improves the lives of high-risk men by connecting them with the resources they need—housing, jobs, healthcare, and a supportive community.
Inmates and Former Inmates
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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.
The MOMobile Home Visiting Program Goes to Jail and Follows the Babies Home
April 26, 2012 | Program Result Report
Through its MOMobile at Riverside program, the Maternity Care Coalition in Philadelphia provided education and support services to female inmates who were pregnant and/or mothers of young children. RWJF supported the program from 2006 through 2010.
Is There Life After Prison?
March 26, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar studies ways to help former inmates survive the difficultand often deadlytransition to freedom.
Return to Drug Use and Overdose After Release from Prison
March 15, 2012 | Journal Article
Former inmates face many challenges in the post-release period as drug use and the risk of overdose is highly prevalent due to lack of social support, exposure to drugs in their environment, financial trouble, and difficulty integrating back into the community.
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.
A New Model of Health Care for Juvenile Offenders
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
Community Oriented Correctional Health Services expanded its juvenile offender program to an additional site and negotiated for a third. The program connects juvenile offenders with health services during and after detention.
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.
Introduction to the Special Issue on Reclaiming Futures
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Looking back, looking ahead to a second decade of an RWJF national program to reshape services to young people served by juvenile justice, and drug and alcohol treatment programs.
Helping Substance-Involved Young People in Juvenile Justice Be Successful
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The RWJF Reclaiming Futures national program engaged communities to reinvent the way substance abuse treatment services were conceptualized and delivered in juvenile courts.