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Blue Ribbon Commission Reports Racial Disparities in Drug Addiction Policies - Makes Recommendations

December 23, 2009 | Program Result Report

The commission sought to influence drug policies and practices, held African-American drug policy summits, worked in communities around the country on drug policy issues and disseminated the commission's policy recommendations.

Helping Former Prisoners Reenter 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.

Recommendations to Improve Access to Health Care for Prisoners Coming Home in Alameda and Los Angeles Counties

November 11, 2008 | Program Result Report

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.

New Recommendations for Prisoner Re-Entry in New Jersey

March 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

In 2002, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, in collaboration with the New Jersey Public Policy Research Institute, created the New Jersey Reentry Roundtable.

Substance Abuse Treatment for Connecticut Prisoners Reduces Rearrest Rates and is Cost Effective

August 1, 2006 | Program Result Report

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.

Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime

National Program

An approach to helping teenagers caught in the cycle of drugs, alcohol, trauma and crime by uniting juvenile courts, probation, adolescent substance abuse treatment, and the community.

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.

The Development and Evolution of Reclaiming Futures at the Ten-Year Mark

September 1, 2011 | Journal Article

A systems change model to transform how youth with substance use disorders in the juvenile justice system receive services.

Toward an Effective Treatment System for Adolescents with Substance Use Disorders

September 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Federal grants helped 16 states create system change in their adolescent substance abuse treatment programs.

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