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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.

Health Link Program Provided Health and Community Services to Current and Former Inmates of New York City's Rikers Island Jail

February 23, 2006 | Program Result Report

The Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health designed and ran Health Link, which provided in-jail and post-release services to women and adolescent inmates ages 16 to 18 at New York City's Rikers Island correctional complex.

Second Time Around

August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children enabled Grandparents As Second Parents to test and to disseminate for national use a peer support program it had developed for grandparents raising their grandchildren.

When Students Have an Emergency, the Brookline Resilient Youth Team Steps in

April 18, 2011 | Program Result Report

In 2004, the Brookline Community Mental Health Center and Brookline High School established the Brookline Resilient Youth Team. It provides counseling and academic help to high school students who are re-entering school after a personal emergency.

New Services for Released Prisoners with Mental Illness in Mercer County, N.J.

June 28, 2010 | Program Result Report

Greater Trenton Behavioral HealthCare and its partners provided re-entry assistance to 176 incarcerated individuals diagnosed with mental illness through discharge planning, case management and needed follow-up services for 12 months or more.

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.

Disaster Planning and Risk Communication with Vulnerable Communities

April 1, 2007 | Journal Article

Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

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.

Drug Court Saves Camden County, N.J., $4.7 million, Lowers Relapse Rate

November 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

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.

Research Finds that La Bodega de la Familia Program for Families Helps Former Drug Users Stay Clean

February 1, 2007 | Program Result Report

The Vera Institute of Justice evaluated La Bodega de la Familia, a program operated by the Vera Institute and dedicated to improving family well-being by supporting families of drug users under parole or probation supervision.

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