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Meditation Course Helps Native Americans Sustain Recovery Marlatt evaluated the effect of "mindfulness-based relapse prevention" on people struggling with addiction. | Grantee profiles | 07/23/2009 |
In 2003, Mark Parrino, M.P.A., received an Innovators Combating Substance Abuse award from RWJF and got a chance to bring methadone and buprenorphine into correctional settings. | Grantee profiles | 07/23/2009 |
Cost Effectiveness of Substance Abuse Treatment in Criminal Justice Settings The prevalence of drug use among criminal offenders and the positive rate of growth in the already large incarcerated population, strongly suggest a need to fund cost-effective substance abuse interventions in criminal justice settings. Published In: Knowledge Assets Series | Issue and policy briefs | 05/06/2009 |
Helping Former Prisoners Reenter Society 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... Published In: To Improve Health and Health Care | Book chapters, RWJF Anthology | 01/20/2009 |
A coalition in Calif. works to improve access to health care for formerly incarcerated individuals. | Grant Results Reports | 11/11/2008 |
A New Family-Focused Database for Bodega de la Familia's Work with Prisoners Coming Home in New York Staff at Family Justice designed and implemented a comprehensive database designed to support its Bodega de la Familia family case management approach to improving the health and well-being of formerly incarcerated individuals and their families in New York. | Grant Results Reports | 10/31/2008 |
Jails and Community-Based Health Care This issue brief discusses COCHS, an alternative to the traditional system of correctional care. | Issue and policy briefs | 09/22/2008 |
Inside and Out: Protecting Prisoners and Communities Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) connects the health care provided in local correctional centers with the care provided in the community. | Grantee stories video, Grantee profiles | 04/03/2008 |
This study explores the demographics of individuals released from jails in New York City, through a survey of 1,946 participants interviewed between 1997-2004. The U.S. jail population has increased by 257 percent since 1983. Jails differ from prisons in that... Published In: Public Health Reports | Journal articles | 01/03/2008 |
National Commission Assesses Management of Chronic Health Conditions Among Prisoner Populations Staff at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care measured the health outcomes of patients with chronic conditions in correctional institutions in Georgia and Michigan over time. | Grant Results Reports | 02/10/2007 |