Criminal-Legal Involved Women and Health Literacy This presentation will walk the audience through how empirical research informed a health literacy construct for criminal-legal involved women; how that construct was applied in a jail-based cervical health intervention; then in a health...
This website describes the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN). TCN provides technical assistance and training to community clinics across the United States. The aim is to help these clinics better serve people with chronic health conditions who were recently released from prison. Each TCN clinic...
This website describes 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. These peer educators take a 40-hour training, then run health education...
The National Institute of Corrections developed this 2014 webinar. The webinar covers the following topics: The health needs of justice-involved individuals The incidence of chronic disease in this population The importance of maintaining a continuum of care as this population...
In this 2018 podcast, health literacy expert Helen Osborne talks with David Young, a professor and community health specialist at Montana State University. The podcast covers the following topics: The meaning of “justice-involved individuals” Health issues that affect this population ...
This 2018 article by Kristie Hadden and colleagues describes a study of patients within 6 months after release from prison. The patients received primary care at a clinic in the Transitions Clinic Network (TCN). TCN provides technical assistance and training to community clinics across the...
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...
Wisconsin Health Literacy worked with 5 justice-involved facilities to develop this toolkit for justice-involved individuals. The toolkit discusses the risks of opioid overdose and provides resources for alternate treatment. It includes a train-the-trainer webinar and self-guided learning...