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T43: Prison to Community: Reducing Recidivism Through Peer Support and Continuity of Care
Tara Swartzendruber-Landis, BA, Patricia Luizaga, BA, Karim Bey, John Rogers, BA
1.5 hours Focus: Forensics Involvement
Description:
By conservative estimates, about twenty percent of incarcerated people throughout the United States have a
serious, persistent mental illness. Recidivism rates are alarmingly high. The Prison to Community Project, a
program of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania, is a new community reentry initiative
designed to support mental health consumers with a co-occurring addiction who are incarcerated at the county
prison in Philadelphia, PA. This workshop discusses: program design; implementation and goals; application of
both a peer support and continuity of care model; and data collection design and implementation.
Educational Objectives: Participants will be able to:
• Critique and adapt community reentry programs for their own communities;
• Describe and implement peer support models;
• Discuss the development, design, collection and interpretation of outcome measures.
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