Prison Health Is Community Health: The Indiana Peer Education Program

This 2022 article by Andrea Janota and colleagues describes a study of the Indiana Peer Education Program (INPEP). This program uses the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model to train jailed people as peer educators on relevant health topics.

The researchers surveyed peer educators and their students. They found that the program improved health knowledge, attitudes about health topics, behavior plans, and self-efficacy.


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Language, Culture & Diversity
Topic
Justice-Involved Individuals
Audience
Community Health Workers, Navigators, and Peer Educators, Community-Based and Social Service Professionals, Researchers and Academics
Setting
Government and Policy Settings, Social and Human Services, Research Settings
Level
Advanced