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April 20, 2010 | Program Result
Treatment Research Institute developed a pilot project to train public defenders in Pennsylvania to identify clients with substance abuse issues and refer them to appropriate health and social services.
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.
December 4, 2009 | Program Result
Researchers at the Urban Institute analyzed the characteristics and experiences of former prisoners returning from prison to homes in Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland and Houston.
July 29, 2009 | Program Result
Each year, hundreds of thousands of people are released from prison, many with health, substance abuse, economic and family problems that need to be addressed in order for them to become productive, law-abiding members of society.
January 1, 2009 | Book
In this chapter of the Anthology, Will Bunch, a journalist with the Philadelphia Daily News, looks at Health Link, an early prisoner re-entry program that ran between 1992 and 2002 and was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program tested the idea of caseworkers helping recently released inmates with jobs, education, health, housing and other social services.
November 11, 2008 | Program Result
Urban Strategies Council led a coalition to design programs and make recommendations to improve access to health care for formerly incarcerated individuals who have reentered the community.
August 1, 2006 | Program Result
Brown University examined rearrests among substance-abusing prison inmates to determine whether the costs of providing different levels of substance abuse treatment while incarcerated were offset by savings.
November 1, 2001 | Program Result
Genesis Counseling Center led a coalition of Camden County court system officials and treatment providers that worked to establish New Jersey's first "drug courts" in Camden County.
December 1, 2001 | Program Result
The Horticultural Society of New York hired a project coordinator a horticultural program that provides education, counseling, job training, and transitional employment to New York City inmates.
July 14, 2008 | Program Result
The Community Voices: Healthcare for the Underserved program of Morehouse School of Medicine convened two meetings in 2006 to define guidelines for health care access for prisoners re-entering the community.